Children's Home Society & Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota — Local services in Lauderdale

If your an adoptee they will hold you hostage if you want to know who your birth parents are. You have to pay a randsome to get that information. So they charge your adoptive parents a fee for you and then they charge you to find your birth parents. How easy is it, your original birth certificate is at the hospital where you were born. With all the needed names for you to search yourself for free on the internet. How much does that cost? Give me a name and a birthday , i can find you for under 50 dollars. Maybe 30 years ago the cost factor made sense. But technology has proven that its not applicable now. Oh, one more thing, they have the name of your birth mother and her birthday. How much does it cost in time and money to google a name and birthday. Are you kidding me. Im beside myself. Charge me to google when google doesnt even charge...

The only thing more dangerous than an organization that knows that it's doing wrong is one that is doing wrong but thinks that it's doing right, and that is CHLSS. They offer only minimal support and very few resources to families. Everything is done in a manner that let's you know it checks a box, but rarely offers meaningful support. They choose willful ignorance if that means a child stays in a placement despite safety concerns for that child or the family. Working with them is an unfortunate reminder of how broken our foster care system is and how it continues to let down not only the children it was meant to protect, but also the families that are trying to help them. Kids deserve better, families deserve better, and they will not...

My wife and I are new to this Avenue of foster and adoption and I called to get more information before proceeding and was greeted almost immediately by a loving voice and then transferred to such a sweet woman who just made me feel so welcome and at ease on the phone as she patiently handled all of my inquiries and concerns with care and complete peace.. I had so many questions answered and not once was I rushed or made to feel foolish for not knowing how things worked with this option or that .. I felt respected and heard and loved. I highly recommend working with these deeply kind humans. They have sincere care for the children and potential foster/adoptive families. They are clear and to the point and so...