For more information on The Hague Convention on International Adoption, please go to the State Department's site for the Prospective Adoptive Parents Guide: http://www.travel.state.gov/pdf/Prospective_Adoptive_Parents_Guide.pdf
Crossroads Adoption Services is a non-profit, non-sectarian agency founded by adoptive parents. The staff includes adoptive parents, adoptees and birth parents.
Expertise & Integrity for over 30 years
Crossroads:
- Assists Minnesota and Wisconsin clients with any one of the U.S. States and the countries with whom we have a direct relationship
- Assists Minnesota and Wisconsin residents who are living and working in another country
- Assists families who have linked with a child in another country where they have someone they know who can assist them with an adoption
- Assists families who live in states other than Minnesota and Wisconsin
Each year, approximately 150 children join Crossroads' adoptive families. The children come from across the United States and from other countries. They range in age from days old through teenage. Most of the children Crossroads places are under 2 years of age and are healthy. Crossroads continues to place children who have special physical, mental and/or emotional needs or are part of a sibling group.
For over 30 years we have placed more than 3,400 children from 36 different countries, so we have accumulated a lot of experience. Children have come from Eastern Europe including Kazahkstan, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine, China, Colombia, Guatemala, India, Nepal, Peru, and the Philippines. Other countries include: Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico, and Honduras. Smaller numbers of children have come from the Azores, Belize, Bolivia, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Greece, Guyana, Haiti, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Virgin Islands. If we do not currently have a program in a country where you have interest, we are willing to work with you on an independent adoption if you have some personal contacts in that country who will be able to assist you.
- More than 3,400 children placed from the U.S. and other countries.
- The agency adds no restrictions to eligibility to adopt. Restrictions come from country and state laws, birth parents, and orphanages.
We work with adoption agencies in the majority of the states in the United States.