Adoption STAR’s Director of Adoption Kathy Crissey shares a piece of beautiful poetry that would never have been written without an adult daughter a...
Considering the Adoption of Black Infants
There are more than 400,000 children presently in out-of-home care in the United States. Almost half of these children are Black. Many Black children ...
Finding Families For Children, Not Children For Families
The Agency’s philosophy is to work in the best interest of children and to find forever families for children, not children for families....
Adoption Competence and School Assignments
Imagine being in the school and your teacher assigns a lesson to create a family tree or bring in a baby photo or write a story about your birth. If...
WNY Most Admired Leaders In Esteem
Buffalo Business First selected Adoption STAR as one of The Most Admired Companies in Western New York. Buffalo Business First wrote, “We asked re...
Michele Fried, CEO and founder of Adoption STAR, shares a special Holiday Message:
Each holiday season and approaching New Year, I reflect on the past…. calculating statistics, planning for the future, reassessing goals, celebratin...
Adoption Agency in New York, Ohio and Florida
Do you believe that every child deserves a forever family? Do you believe that every child no matter their race, background, or circumstances should h...
Issues and Perspectives in Adoption: Then and Now (Part 3)
This is the third part in a three-part series on the history of adoption, and adoption practices “then and now.” Much of the information was taken...
Frequently Asked Adoption Questions
Adoption STAR has Frequently Asked Question pages for Adoptive Parents, Birth Parents, and International Adoption. One question we receive a lot from ...
Issues and Perspectives in Adoption: Then and Now (Part 1)
The field of adoption has changed throughout the years. Before the 1980’s, almost every adoption was closed and there was no contact between bir...