Company Profile
Independent Adoption Center
Company Overview
Independent Adoption Center (IAC) is a non-profit agency celebrating 28 years of open adoption. IAC is a pioneer in open adoption, allowing birth parents to choose the adoptive parents for their child and create a lifelong relationship with the adoptive family. It is also one of the only agencies in the country that has never had any exclusionary policies for adoptive parents, including age, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, ethnic background, color, or race.
Company History
The Independent Adoption Center (IAC) is the preeminent open adoption agency in the U.S.
Founded in 1982, IAC is a counseling-based, licensed, nonprofit agency that has facilitated over 4,000 adoptions.
With offices in California, North Carolina, Georgia, Indiana and Texas, IAC is also the largest and one of the oldest fully open adoption agencies in the country and it has been instrumental in pioneering open adoption.
IAC provides services to adoptive parents and birth parents in all 50 states
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
IAC has over 28 years of experience with over 4,000 successful adoptions
IAC is committed to the adoption triad: birthparents, children, and adoptive parents
All birthparent services are free and include: non-directive pregnancy options counseling, comprehensive lifetime counseling support, needs assessment, and referral to appropriate services
Professional and licensed with over 20 social workers with Masters of Social Work (MSW) degrees or higher
IAC's Clinical Director is a nationally regarded expert in the field. She has written numerous groundbreaking books including Dear Birthmother and Children of Open Adoption and has advocated extensively for open adoption. She provides IAC with clinical oversight and IAC's staff with clinical supervision
IAC is licensed in California (all 58 counties), Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina and Texas and has facilitated adoptions in 36 additional states
IAC has regional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Raleigh and Houston
IAC is one of the only adoption agencies in the country that has never had any exclusionary policies for adoptive parents, including age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, religion, ethnic background, color, or race