Lighthouse Thoughts

Navigating the Adoption Process Faster

Each year there are over 20,000 infants placed for adoption in the United States. Families who have fewer restrictions can navigate the adoption process faster than families who have very limited criteria for their adoption match. Most BHAS families successfully complete an adoption within one to two years* of beginning the adoption process. Criteria that […]

Growing Families Spring Tea

You’re Invited Growing Families Spring tea April 30, 1-4pm Oak Lodge, Baton Rouge LA Founded in 1989, Beacon House has provided professional and caring adoption services to birth and adopting parents for over 27 years. Aside from helping young women who consider adoption, funding the Infant Adoption Initiative and co-sponsoring the “Sock it to Me” […]

Ten Easy Steps to an Adoption

Select an adoption agency Execute your contract Complete your Adoption Homestudy Complete your Pre-adoption education Submit profile book Enter the matching pool Get matched Baby is born Birthmother signs the Execution of Consents Accept Custody Review each of these steps in depth, by attending one of our FREE adoption Webinars, or schedule a consultation. […]

Conversation Starters with your Child

We all have heard the simple yes, no, okay, boring, etc., answers when we’ve asked our children questions. Instead of asking questions with easy out replies, try asking a few of these conversation starters: 50 Questions to Ask Your Kids Instead of Asking “How Was Your Day” http://herviewfromhome.com/50-questions-to-ask-your-kids-instead-of-asking-how-was-your-day/

Adoption Financing

Did you know that Beacon House Adoption Services is the first, full-service agency offering the Adoption Finance Coaching System? THE FCS is a proven system, helping you reach your financial goals to bring your family together forever! At BHAS, all Beacon House families have access to our adoption finance coach. The coach will help you: Determine […]

What to Expect When You’re Adopting

A practical guide to the decisions and emotions involved in adoption This guide “leads parents through the many stages and emotional aspects involved and offer practical and sensitive advice.” https://www.amazon.com/What-Expect-When-Youre-Adopting-ebook/dp/B0031RS2SQ

Qualifying for Adoption Grants

Coming up in April, our Adoption Finance Coaches are teaming up to bring you an exciting and informative webinar on Qualifying for Grants. There are so many questions families have about how to determine which foundation best fit their needs, how to review the web sites and determining the types of grants that are best for […]

Finding Balance with Cocooning

For adoptive families, “the idea of “nesting” is to simplify life, settle into a routine, and limit the care of the child to the mom and dad. The idea of cocooning is to allow life to settle down for the child and parents and to firmly cement in the child’s mind who are mom and […]

The Matching Process

At Beacon House we do not have a Waiting List. Instead we have a matching pool of approved families to help coordinate a perfect match between the Birth Mother and the Adoptive Family. We only take up to thirty families in the matching pool at any given time Every Adoptive Parent in our program is […]

What is Domestic Adoption?

A Domestic Adoption is the adoption of a child born in the same country as the adoptive parents. It occurs when the biological parents of a child relinquish their parental rights to that child. There are several types of domestic adoption: Open Adoption Involves sharing identifying information between Adoptive Parents & Birth Mother – addresses, […]