Supporting kids and families in our community
Post Adoption Services
If you are an adoptive parent, adoptee, birthparent, or have legal custodianship or a formal kinship agreement, our staff is here to provide support through our post-adoption services. Working with SWAN, our services may be available at no cost for children 18 and under.
Foster Care
For foster families around the world opening their hearts
and homes to children, we seek to provide ongoing support—every heartwarming
and heartbreaking step of the way.
Foster Care Adoption in the U.S.
Imagine growing up without the stability of a permanent
family. Unfortunately, that’s the reality for many children. That's why we do everything possible to ensure they have a stable, nurturing family.
Safe Families for Children
When parents are going through a temporary crisis, we find
families to care for their children. This allows parents to take essential
steps toward stability.
Short-Term Immigrant Foster Care
As a foster parent, you’ll provide a safe and loving temporary home for unaccompanied children seeking asylum in the U.S., until they can be reunited with a family member.
Family Counseling
Sometimes you need someone to talk with you through life’s challenges—especially through the ongoing and ever-changing pandemic. We’re here for you when you do. Bethany’s Christian counselors are clinically certified and have a proven track record in their area of expertise.
Home Study and Post Release Services
Children around the world flee their homes due to war, violence, natural disasters, or persecution. These unaccompanied children seek refuge and a safe, comforting place to heal.
Employment Services - Ukraine
Every year, refugees from Ukraine are resettled in the U.S., seeking safety and a chance at a new life. With your help, we surround refugees with welcome and support during one of the hardest times in their lives.
Parent Cafes
Parenting isn’t easy. And when you have questions or challenges, you want to know someone understands and has your back. Parent Cafés bring you together with other parents and caregivers for encouraging, supportive conversation. Whatever you’re facing as a parent, you’re not alone.
Safe Release Support
At Bethany we stand for children and their safety. In order to promote the mission of Safe Release Support, Bethany partners with Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services (LIRS) and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to provide services to sponsors of unaccompanied children (UC). The Safe Release Support(SRS) program provides fingerprinting services, data collection, and referrals to resources for potential sponsors of the unaccompanied children.
Long-Term Refugee Foster Care
Refugee foster families step up to provide a home for
unaccompanied minors who have often been separated from their families for
years.
Refugee Resettlement - ERMA
Across the U.S., Bethany is welcoming Afghan refugees who have fled their country in the wake of the Taliban’s rise to power and the U.S. military’s withdrawal. We need your help.
ADOPTS
Children who have experienced trauma deserve support. The ADOPTS program helps address traumatic events for children—before and after adoption—and equips them with coping skills they and their families need to thrive.