Whether you’re just beginning to explore adoption or are ready to move forward, Connected Hearts is here to help. We provide trusted guidance, resources, and personalized support throughout the adoption process. Reach out today to learn how Connected Hearts can support your family.
Learn about the adoption process, agency services, timelines, costs, and what to expect as you begin your journey.
Complete the initial application and provide the information needed to begin the approval process.
Participate in interviews, home visits, education, and background screenings to ensure you’re prepared for adoption.
Gain valuable knowledge and resources to help you navigate adoption, parenting, attachment, and lifelong family connections.
Create a profile that shares your family’s story, values, and hopes with expectant parents considering adoption.
As you await a match, we’ll provide ongoing support and guidance throughout this important stage of the process.
Welcome a child into your family and begin building your life together with support from our team.
Receive continued guidance and complete required visits and documentation before finalization.
Celebrate the completion of your adoption journey as the adoption is legally finalized and recognized by the court.
In a domestic adoption, Connected Hearts helps connect expectant parents considering adoption with approved adoptive families living in Northeast Wisconsin. Most children placed through this program are infants from birth to 12 months of age.
Prospective adoptive parents complete a home study, adoption education, and other requirements to ensure they are prepared for the adoption journey. Throughout the process, Connected Hearts provides guidance, education, matching services, placement support, and post-placement services through finalization.
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In an independent adoption, expectant parents and adoptive parents have already connected with one another before involving an adoption agency. Families may connect through friends or family members, social networks, parent profile websites, community connections, or other personal referrals.
Connected Hearts supports both parties by completing the required home study, education, legal coordination, placement services, and post-placement supervision. We help ensure that all Wisconsin adoption requirements are met while providing guidance throughout the process.
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Relative adoption provides a way to legally establish the permanent parent-child relationship that already exists between a child and a relative caregiver. This option is often pursued by grandparents, aunts, uncles, or other family members who have assumed a parenting role in a child’s life.
Connected Hearts can guide families through the home study process and provide support as they work toward creating permanence and stability for the child through adoption.
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Stepparent adoption allows a stepparent to become the legal parent of their spouse’s child. This process can strengthen family relationships and provide legal permanence for the parent-child bond that has already been established.
Connected Hearts can assist families in understanding the adoption process, completing required steps, and navigating the legal requirements necessary to finalize the adoption.
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Connected Hearts provides services for Wisconsin families adopting a child born in another state. These adoptions often occur through a licensed adoption agency or adoption professional in the child’s home state, while Connected Hearts provides services locally in Wisconsin.
All interstate adoptions must comply with the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC), which helps ensure that legal requirements are met in both the sending and receiving states before a child is placed across state lines.
Because adoption requirements, timelines, costs, and opportunities vary by state and agency, Connected Hearts works closely with families to navigate the process and identify reputable, licensed adoption professionals when needed.
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International adoption, also known as intercountry adoption, involves adopting a child from another country. Each country has its own laws, eligibility requirements, timelines, and processes.
Catholic Charities is a Hague-accredited adoption agency and can assist Wisconsin families by providing:
International adoptions are governed by the Hague Convention, which establishes safeguards and ethical standards for intercountry adoptions.
Requirements vary by country and may include criteria related to age, marital status, health, family size, travel, and financial resources. Families are encouraged to carefully review the requirements of their country of interest and stay informed about any changes throughout the process.
Catholic Charitie is committed to helping families understand their options and providing support every step of the way, from the initial home study through post-adoption services.
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A community for waiting adoptive families to connect, learn, and grow with other adoptive families.
Ongoing workshops and webinars to support lifelong learning.
Professional support to create a warm, authentic family profile.
Free services available to approved families to help waiting families create a path forward in raising the money you need to bring your family together forever.
Guidance in building healthy, lifelong connections.
Resources and support beyond placement.
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