If you are interested in learning more about our domestic adoption program, we ask that you call our office at 704-847-0038 or fill out this form, so we can tell you more about our program and answer any questions you have.

Once we have spoken with you, we can add you to the waitlist for our next virtual interest meeting (which occur a few times per year). Attending an interest meeting is required to continue through the following steps.

Apply using “Eadopt” (an online web portal). The application is a two step process that involves:

Step One

• Application

• Family Profile  

• Motivation to adopt

• Status of your health

• Statement of Faith

• Financial data

• Another important part of step 1 in the application process is that we ask you to complete a document entitled “Preferences of a Child” This serves as a GUIDE to let us know what you are open to regarding the child you are seeking to adopt. 

• We’ve also recently implemented Training Requirements in the first step of the application process to include topics: Transracial Adoption, Prenatal Exposure, Openness 

Once you have completed step one of your application, an internal review team makes a decision on the next steps based on your family profile, your preferences and our agency’s needs. You are notified. One of three decisions are made:

• Approved - Move to step two of the application process.

• Hold Status - Perhaps as Hopeful Adoptive Parents you need to firm up your finances or maybe there are too many other families in our program at that time with the same family dynamics/profile that is too similar to yours.

• Not Accepted to move to Step Two - Some reasons for not being approved to the next step may include that as Hopeful Adoptive Parents you do not meet the requirements of CAS or your the expectations are not realistic.

If and when you are approved to move to step two of the application process, the next step is to prepare to complete your Homestudy, aka Pre-placement Assessment. The home study is a process where supportive documents are gathered and submitted to CAS. Once all necessary documents are received by CAS, your application is reviewed for acceptance. If fully accepted, a caseworker is assigned who meets with the you to conduct visits in your home and will help prepare you and your family for placement. 

While you are going through the homestudy or immediately following, we ask that you begin working on your profile album and gathering photos for your online adoption profile. We guide families on how to create their profile albums. The albums are typically shown to expectant clients around their 7th month of pregnancy. 

Once your homestudy is approved, you are officially admitted as a waiting family! Profiles of admitted families are presented on our website as Waiting Adoptive Families. You are also invited to an online group that offers support for CAS adoptive and waiting families.

If an expectant mom chooses your family, our adoption coordinator will notify you with a referral for placement. They will be with you every step of the way - from meeting the expectant parents to the hospital experience to signing the paperwork.

After placement, you will participate in family post-placement visits with your caseworker that lead to finalization. We also ask for you to:

• Send in updates to eadopt per the agency agreement.

• Maintain communication with your child’s birth parents by whatever was mutually agreed upon (we help mediate this agreement).

• We also offer annual family picnics and continued involvement with our agency functions and events. 

The CAS staff is always available to discuss concerns or issues relating to your adoption. If a member of our staff is not equipped to address your particular issue we can serve as a referral resource.