Catholic Charities Adoption Program provides services to adult adoptees, to birth parents, to siblings of adult adoptees, and also to adoptive parents.

Some services in which we engage daily are: researching records for medical and social background, reaching out to birth parents for updated medical information, exchanging information and sometimes letters and photos between birth families and adoptees, assisting in arranging reunions, providing baptismal certificates for adopted persons who were baptized at St. James Orphanage, and providing counseling on adoption issues to adoptive parents.

We sponsor a monthly Post-relinquishment Support Group. Whether a parent relinquished within the past year or many years ago, there is often continuing pain and loss. This group focuses on sharing these feelings and looks at ways a parent might work through this grief.

If you are an adoptee, a birth father or birth mother, or perhaps are a brother or sister of a person placed in adoption years ago, you may be thinking of contacting the agency so that your birth relative might be located. The counselors at Catholic Charities are aware of how big a step this is. Many persons, though they wonder a good deal, put off indefinitely that big step of calling the agency for help.

When you take that step, you will be assisted by professional, masters-level counselors who will help you sort through your goals, will advise you of Nebraska state statutes on reunion between adoptees and birth families, and will act as sensitive intermediaries if you decide to have us search for birth relatives.

Some Facts You May Need to Know

Nebraska law mandates certain procedures and puts certain restrictions on the actions of those seeking reunions. For a review of those legal requirements, click here.

If you are an adoptee and wish further information about the process of reunion, click here.

If you are a birth parent seeking information about a child placed in adoption, click here.

If your mother or your father has told you that before your birth, or perhaps while you were very young, a sibling was placed in adoption, and you have an interest in locating that sibling, click here.

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