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State Adoption Websites
Military Families
National organization dedicated to identifying and resolving issues of concern to military families.
Adoption Costs
The cost of adoption is minimal with a public state agency. The cost varies with the private adoption agencies in your state. However, children may qualify for adoption assistance resources and the federal government offers income tax credits to families who adopt children.
Children with Special Needs
Most public state agencies, including the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS), will only train and complete a home study for families who are willing to foster or adopt children who:
- are waiting for adoption and
- who may have special needs.
Children with special needs:
- may be school-aged through 18 years;
- may have special medical, physical, or emotional needs;
- may belong to any ethnicity or race; and
- may be a part of a group of brothers and sisters who need to be placed together.
Many of the children waiting for adoption have one or more special needs.
Canada
Families from Canada can visit:
If you are interested in a Texas child waiting for adoption, but you live in another state and have not completed a home study, we encourage you to get approved to adopt within your state first.
Note: Whenever possible, links point directly to a page that explains the adoption process in your state. Texas works with interested families from other states, however we cannot approve or develop home studies on families outside Texas. We encourage you to get approved to adopt within your state first. Please contact us if you have any questions.
- Alabama: Alabama Dept. of Human Resources
- Alaska: Alaska Office of Children's Services
- Arizona: Arizona Division of Children, Youth, and Families
- Arkansas: Arkansas Adoption Resource Exchange
- California: California Kids Connection
- Cherokee Nation: Cherokee Kids
- Colorado: Change a Life Forever
- Connecticut: Department of Children and Families
- Delaware: Department of Services for Children, Youth, and Their Families
- District of Columbia: Child and Family Services Agency
- Florida: Florida Department of Children and Families
- Georgia: Division of Children and Family Services
- Hawaii: State of Hawaii - Dept. of Human Services
- Idaho: Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare
- Illinois: Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
- Indiana: Indiana Dept. of Child Services
- Iowa: Iowa Department of Human Services
- Kansas: Adopt Kansas Kids
- Kentucky: Kentucky FACES
- Louisiana: Louisiana Dept. of Children and Family Services
- Maine: Maine Child and Family Services
- Maryland: Maryland Department of Human Services
- Massachusetts: Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange
- Michigan: Michigan Adoption Resource Exchange
- Minnesota: Minnesota Adoption Resource Network
- Mississippi: Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services
- Missouri: Missouri Dept. of Social Services
- Montana: Montana Dept. of Public Health and Human Services
- Nebraska: Nebraska Dept. of Health and Human Services
- Nevada: Nevada Division of Child and Family Services
- New Hampshire: New Hampshire Dept. of Health and Human Services
- New Jersey: New Jersey Dept. of Children and Families
- New Mexico: Heart Gallery of New Mexico, New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families
- New York: New York State Adoption Service
- North Carolina: NC Kids Adoption and Foster Care Network
- North Dakota: North Dakota Department of Human Services
- Ohio: Adopt Ohio
- Oklahoma: AdoptOKKids
- Oregon: Oregon Department of Human Services
- Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network
- Rhode Island: Adoption Rhode Island
- South Carolina: South Carolina Dept. of Social Services
- South Dakota: Dept. of Social Services
- Tennessee: Dept. of Children's Services
- Texas: Texas Adoption Resource Exchange
- Utah: Utah's Adoption Connection
- Vermont: Vermont Project Family
- Virginia: Virginia's Dept. of Social Services
- Washington: Washington State Dept. Of Social and Health Services
- West Virginia: Adopt a West Virginia Child
- Wisconsin: Dept. of Children and Families
- Wyoming: Dept. of Family Services