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Our Locations
3410 Healy Drive
Suite 201-H
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
Phone: (336) 768-4136
Fax: (336) 768-0082
38 Garfield Street
Asheville, NC 28803
Phone: (828) 236-2877
Fax: (828)236-9825
Professional Parenting is a program of:
Professional Parenting, a program of Appalachian Family Innovations, developed the Adoption Plus program in 1992 to facilitate and support healthy and successful adoptions. We are dedicated to the placement of children with special needs, including older children, sibling groups, and medically fragile youth.
Adoption Plus offers a complete package of support services for families, from pre-adoption training, to finding the right child, through comprehensive post-adoption support for at least one year after the adoption, and often for as long as the family requests. We believe in doing “whatever it takes” to provide families and children with the best support services possible in order to ensure happy and successful adoptions.
Adoption Plus does not charge fees to families or to the agencies that refer children. All the children placed for adoption are eligible for Medicaid health insurance, and all adoptive families receive a monthly adoption subsidy. In many cases, Adoption Plus families will also choose to become licensed foster parents in order to adopt children still in foster care.
Adoption Plus also provides post-adoption support services to families who adopted directly through the Department of Social Services and who are now experiencing problems. The goal of this post-adoption support program is to help families find parenting solutions that work or to help them find quality services in their local community.
Referral Information
To refer a child to Adoption Plus or to request Post Adoption Support Services, individual adoptive families or County Department of Social Services are invited to contact Carrie Lauterbach at (828) 350-9830 or carrie.lauterbach@familyinnovations.org in the Asheville area or Claretha Rowell at (336) 768-4136 or claretha.rowell@familyinnovations.org in the Winston-Salem/ Greensboro area.
Becoming an Adoptive Parent
If you would like information on how to adopt one of North Carolina’s waiting children, please contact us for more information.
In the Winston-Salem/Greensboro area please contact us at (336) 768-4136
In the Asheville area please contact us at (828) 350-9830.
For more information and photographs of the North Carolina children awaiting adoption please visit www.adoptnckids.org.