Conner Adoption Support Services

We used Conner Adoption Support Services for our home study in late 2013 and for the post-​placement visits for our son during 2014. We had no previous experience with adoption and made our initial contact based solely on results from an internet search. The initial email response from Rebecca (the business owner) was warm and friendly, and confirmed that she was able to travel to Huntsville from Birmingham to do our home study.
My wife and I were very apprehensive about the home study and if it was going to feel like an interrogation or like we were being put under a microscope. But working with Rebecca, it was nothing like that at all. Rebecca was very easy to talk to and made us both very comfortable with the process. She offered helpful advice on adoption issues to consider, as well as things related to child-​proofing our home, and everything in between. We were concerned that working with a social worker on a home study was going to feel like an adversarial relationship, where we had to prove ourselves. Instead, the relationship with Rebecca was one where we felt that she was an advocate for us and wanted to help us succeed in adopting.
The only down-​side we had to our experience with Rebecca is related to the fact that she is a one-​person business and thus can’t be available every single day. Our original adoption match fell through, and a month later we received a call from the agency about a «drop-​in /​baby born» situation for which the birth mother had chosen us (talk about an exciting day!!). So we hit the road the next day to drive across country. But as Murphy would have it, Rebecca was getting on a plane that same day for an already planned out-​of-​country trip, and was thus not available to work the ICPC paperwork with the agency during that week. But as soon as she got back in town the next week she jumped right on it and got the agency what was needed and we were good to go. In the end, it probably caused us to have a few extra days in the state of birth before we were allowed to head home. We don’t see this as a ding against her as much as simply something to be aware of if you choose to work with her, or any other one-​person adoption services provider for that matter.
We are planning to pursue a second adoption starting this coming year and plan to work with Rebecca again for the updated home study and the requisite post-​placement visits and definitely recommend her.