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ADOPTION and FAMILY SERVICES


Children’s Friend became the first adoption agency in central Massachusetts in the 1850’s. We’re proud that we’re still helping to bring families together more than 150 years later.

Our licensed Adoption and Family Services program provides adoption-related services including:

  • Home studies, supervision, and finalization services to complete out-of-state or relative adoption and placement.
  • Child adoption assessments, home studies, and case consultation to the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF).
  • Case management services for DCF, including recruitment of adoptive families and placement of children for adoption.
  • Searches for adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents whose adoptions were completed at Children’s Friend.

Special Services

Therapeutic Supervised Visitation
The Therapeutic Supervised Visitation program provides a safe and structured setting where children, adoptive parents or guardians, and birth families come together with one goal: for children to know the love of their families. Sharing time together reinforces important family ties when children cannot live with their birth families. The children we serve are in adoptive homes or under legal guardianships. Our program is unique because we offer:

  • face-to-face contact between children, birth parents, and adoptive families or guardians.
  • facilitation by licensed therapists.
  • child-centered activities.
  • a comfortable setting.

Other Training
Program Director Veronica Listerud, LICSW, and her staff provide training to public and private sector adoption workers on various aspects of adoption.

MAPP
Our staff is qualified to give Massachusetts Approach to Partnership in Parenting (MAPP) training. This is a training that is required for foster and pre-adoptive parents.

Contact Us
The Adoption and Family Services Program is located at 21 Cedar Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Please call Veronica Listerud, LICSW, Director of Adoption and Family Services, at (508) 753-5425 or email adoption@childrensfriend.org.

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