Hear from our families who have formed their families through adoption…

Our Adoption is official!!! Thank you so much for your guidance, patience, and most of all your love for your job to help families like mine.

You are forever in our hearts and thank you always for being great!

Thank you so much. You are both wonderful and have made our family so happy. We were truly blessed to have you both in our lives. Thank you for caring and doing such a great job. I can see that you both put the needs and safety of the children you work with above all and we appreciate that more then you’ll ever know. Thank you from my entire family and God Bless you both always.

When we started our adoption journey years ago, we researched countless agencies to help us start our family. We read mission statements, evaluated fee structures, and attended information sessions. There was so much information to process and we felt extremely overwhelmed when it came time for us to make a commitment. A serendipitous encounter with an old family friend and fellow adoptive parent was all it took. She introduced us to The Children’s Home Society of NJ and we immediately moved forward with them based on her recommendation. We could have never known at the time that this decision would be the best one of our lives. The agency has placed two beautiful children with us and we can safely say that our family would not be what it is today without them.

What stands out to us is the CHSofNJ’s effort to form a bond and build trust with both adoptive families and birth parents. Their goal is to facilitate healthy relationships and happy families. As we navigated the home study, waiting period, and eventual placement process, we constantly found ourselves relying on the experienced counselors to guide us through uncharted waters. They were there when we met a birth mother for the first time, when we went to the hospital nursery to meet our child for the first time, and when we went to court to finalize the adoption. This holds true for both adoptions we’ve been blessed with. They always show up, especially when it counts! The agency has also served as the intermediary for communications (such as photographs and life updates) between us and the birth mothers, which is very valuable to us. We love that the relationship we have with the agency goes beyond just placement. They truly are our partner on this lifelong journey.

The CHSofNJ is an institution that has existed for over 125 years, and it is definitely a benefit to know that their mission has stood the test of time and will continue to do so.

In Spring 2018, my husband and I decided to look into adoption, we were both over 40, had been married for a year, were house hunting and wanted to complete our family. I found CHSofNJ online, I liked that they had been in business for over 100 years and served the community. We went for our first appointment in June 2018 and I knew that this was how we were going to complete our family. Everyone we met from CHSofNJ has fully and lovingly supported us throughout our journey to be a family. The staff were always available to answer my many, varied, crazy questions. I truly believe that when we got our call the angel who called us was just as happy as we were.

We got our call on July 31, 2019, and on August 1, 2019 we brought home our perfect, gorgeous son, Danny.

Post adoption, I feel just as much support from CHSofNJ as I did pre-adoption. The agency helped facilitate a meeting with the police officer who delivered our son and is trying to help us connect with Danny’s brother’s family.

We firmly believe that CHSofNJ is full of amazing people who want to help make a family. I feel supported and like a part of their family. They know my son and want to stay involved in our lives. If this is the path you decide to choose, I know they will do their best to help complete your family.

We know the wait is long as the process is tedious. Hold on do not give up on hope! Seven years ago, we got a phone call about a beautiful baby girl that was ready to be adopted. Mind you there’s not much notice. Sometimes and no matter how much you prepare material wise. It’s never enough. Back on June 26, 2015 we picked up our daughter at three days old, she was absolutely perfect and still is to this day children’s home. Society is wonderful they give 200% in trying to give everyone a child as fast as possible. The home study is wonderful just a suggestion it really is worth setting up your own nursery, having your infant or your toddler sleep in their own room. Our daughter is so happy go lucky extremely smart she knows she’s adopted. We never hit it from her. We used the word adoption from the get go. Read your child books that focus on understanding adoption it makes it easy as well as fun for your child to understand how special they are because they are adopted. Hang in there. The best day of your life could be any day!!!! Wishing everyone an exciting journey through the adoption process.

CHSofNJ has been a part of my family before I was even born. My grandmother was a foster parent for them in the 1960s, eventually adopting who is my uncle today. When my husband and I were exploring different ways of building the family we had always dreamed of, it was natural for us to look at CHSofNJ first. Since then, they have been supportive of us in every way imaginable. We are now the ecstatic parents of a boy and girl, both adopted from CHSofNJ shortly after their births. While their adoption stories are vastly different, I never had the anxiety or fears that could accompany the process. CHSofNJ covered every base, both for us as the adoptive parents and for the birth parents as well. CHSofNJ has facilitated

agreements between us and their birth parents that are beneficial to all involved and I couldn’t imagine the life we have today if it were not for them.

Our official journey of building on our family started back when we got married in the end of 2019.

Adoption was always our main choice as we wanted to be able to impact a child’s life for the better. Our journey felt like the two longest years of life, especially due to COVID. But everyone said when it’s right we will know it and it will happen. So in the beginning of 2022 we matched but then we suffered an interruption-the baby was born and mom decided to parent. Which was heartbreaking, but in hindsight, destiny.

Because less than two months later we matched again and a few days later our son, Jaxon was born.

From the first day in the hospital meeting our little man, we felt the connection and knew this was our family’s destiny.

Even with the interruption and the waiting through a pandemic, OUR SON CAME HOME!

He was always meant to be ours and we were always meant to be his. Together we are family.

“Ohana means family”

– Nick and Lou