Hello Lisa, ACPA is sorry to hear of your situation with Beaver County CYS. We believe you may have left the review in the wrong place, as we dont have a Megan working within our adoption agency. ACPA is a private, nonprofit foster/adoption agency that provides contracted services to the offices of Children and Youth in Western PA, but that is our only relationship with them.
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Beaver County C.Y.S. is a joke. They will steal your child and not give them the mental health they need. If you love your child don't interrupt their families. I have two daughters and they only took one lol. Megan your a fool !!!
I cannot say that the staff has not seemed helpful and kind. I cannot argue that the original process up to home study approval and initial foster certification was quite easy and smooth. Afterwards, however, when it came to supporting us through a potential match (that we found), we learned that we were "not special enough" and that it is ultimately the agency workers' decision. They also failed to advise us when signing up that the number of infants they find for their newborn program has come to 0-1/year (for 2015-16). Their focus is foster care (that's where "greater profitability" comes from - yet, in our two years, for some reason, we have not had a single foster or respite placement (working couple with flexible schedules, own our home in a great suburb, with professional and personal child care experience..). I would like to advise anyone looking to foster or adopt to think twice before choosing this organization.
Thank you so much for this amazing review. We are so blessed that you chose us for your journey and that we have been able to help you. Being able to walk side by side with our families as they go through the process is something that we pride ourselves on and love doing. Thank you for trusting us with your journey!
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We could not be happier with our experience with Adoption Connection!!! We adopted an newborn baby through this agency. We came to them after a poor experience at another agency. The staff at this agency is what makes the difference. Every person we have worked with is friendly, dedicated, caring and extremely KNOWLEDGEABLE. From the leadership to the front line we can not say enough great things about the people here. They walked us through every step of the adoption process and were always accessible to help us out. They did an outstanding job of coaching us through the process and helping us handle the ups and downs of the adoption process. We had many bumps along the way, as all adoptions do, that were out of the control of the agency and they helped us to get through them and handled them with exceptional care. In addition our birth mom whom we met raved about the agency and the help they provided her with. They gave us a true 5 star experience and we a grateful to have found this agency!
Thank you for your awesome review about our agency! We are so happy that you chose to work with us and to hear that our staff was communicative and helpful to you! We are grateful to walk beside you on this journey!
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We are currently in the process of preparing all of our paperwork and I can not stress how helpful the staff at Adoption Connection has been. Our experience started off with a sit down with the director who was very friendly and understanding. We explained what we were looking for in an adoption and all of our concerns along the way. She then addressed those concerned, explained how the process would proceed, and explained all alternate options we had. In the end we have choose Foster to Adopt. Fast forward to the training sessions, and through no fault of our own two of our classes were canceled and we will be unable to complete them in any timely manor. Big shout out to Jill B. who is making sure we get the courses we need outside of the set training schedule. If the whole staff is as friendly and helpful as the ones that we have already interacted with, then I can not suggest Adoption Connection enough.
We had a very unfortunate encounter with the director of Adoption Connection, PA. The encounter left me feeling discriminated against for my physical disability. Following that encounter, and trying to address this with the director, no headway was made. I can not in good faith recommend this organization for anyone seeking to adopt - either new born or foster to adopt.
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