This is a very long and overdue review for Texas Christian Adoptions and the one and only Andrea!!…read moreWe can not speak more highly of Andrea and her expertise and her love for what she does. We chose Andrea after a very in depth discussion over the phone and much prayer! The Lord literally put Andrea in our path to take us all on the journey of a lifetime! We were told it typically takes 1-2 years for a birth mom to match with a family .... It took us 2 weeks!! What an incredible blessing!! And what a blessing to have had Andrea walk us through each and every piece! She is truly a gem on this earth and I became a mama with the Miracle of Adoption of our baby boy! I honestly would choose Andrea again when or if the Lord decides to bless us again!! Thank you Andrea, for the best thing that could have ever happened to me, my life, and our family!!

We worked with Andrea back in 2018 to adopt our baby girl. We are still great friends with her and…read moreare hoping to adopt another baby with her. We are searching for our last baby (we've adopted four times so far!). Three of our children have special needs and we would love to adopt our last baby with Andrea's help. It's a long distance to get to her, but so worth it!! It's now 2024 and we are still friends with Andrea! I cannot believe our baby girl is going to be 6 in a few weeks!

Our journey started back in 2013 where we went for fertility testing. Once we made the attempts to…read morepursue adoption in 2015, we were faced with some tough push back from other local agencies. Gladney was the first to welcome all of our questions and the only one that took the proactive steps to reach out to us for simple inquiries. The entire process starts with their monthly information sessions where you'll receive an opportunity to apply with their organization at the end. It's an all day session and you'll meet successful families and birth mothers who have already been matched to see how the process worked for them. You'll also find out about Gladney's process and what the timetable is like on going from start to finish. And you'll see how they market families to birth mothers (primarily through the internet and with a profile book they require you have made) and how they attract birth mothers to their program. There's no pressure to apply and you have 30 days to do it if you don't want to do it that day. There is a fee to apply, but it is deducted from your total cost once you're approved to adopt with them. Once you apply you're placed with a counselor who handles pre-approval couples in large batches. Most of their duties are in helping you meet your goals and stick to deadlines in order to make the adoption happen on a reasonable schedule. Once you get the paperwork done, they arrange for home inspections with your state agency (or if in Texas it may be done with a Gladney counselor). After your approval, Gladney is willing to act as your broker to pair you with birth mothers, but you have to give them a profile book at a minimum. You'll be placed with a different counselor who will be with you from this point forward until your placement is finalized (6 months post adoption basically) Once you have the profile book with Gladney you get shown to birth mothers and it's a waiting game. Once matched you'll meet the mother with Gladney there to assist both you and the birth mother to meet each other. And from there, it's up to you to decide how much communication you want with the birth mother beforehand. Once the child has been born (depending on the state) Gladney is legally required to make you wait until the mother signs over her rights before allowing you to take placement of the child. Our experience (in brief): Once we applied in September 2015, we were approved in December 2015. We submitted our profile book in March 2016 and we were paired with a birth mother in June 2016. We took our daughter home in August 2016 from Oklahoma. She is now six months old as of the time of this review. We were EXTREMELY lucky and fortunate to be matched and paired with our very first birth mother we were submitted to in our process. YMMV as it depends on the birth mother's situation, her opinion of you, her choice to keep the baby or not and a whole bunch of other variables. The only promise Gladney made to us was that if we were approved for adoption, we would be matched up with someone and we would be parents. Our birth mother was in a tough situation and we were very lucky to have met such a brave woman willing to do what she did for us. She could have picked anyone, but she picked us to raise her daughter. My takeaway: If you're considering domestic adoption, you really shorten your waiting time by being open on race. It's not required but you're going on a much longer list that takes longer to fulfill. Once you take possession of the child, you'll find that there's absolutely no difference between your adopted child and a naturally born child. They need us, love us and trust us all the same. Cost is revealed in the informational meeting, it's comparable with what we were told by other agencies. Gladney does not offer any financing, but if you're considering adoption, you'll find someplace to get the money.

As an adoptee, I've learned that silence in adoption can leave lasting wounds that never fully…read moreheal. Too often, birth families disappear for years after placement, and when that happens, adoptees and adoptive families are left to pick up the pieces, wondering why contact stopped and whether they did something wrong. It's not just the absence of letters, phone calls, or updates; it's the absence of EFFORT, the absence of presence, and the absence of acknowledgment. Too often, birth families disappear for years after placement, slipping into silence while the adoptee grows up in the fallout of unanswered questions. The quiet becomes louder with age. What starts as confusion turns into sadness, then into resignation, then into a kind of emotional scar that follows you into adulthood. That silence creates a lifetime of wondering, grieving a relationship that never had the chance to exist, and carrying the weight of questions that no one ever stepped up to answer. Birth families often fail to follow through with promised contact, updates, or communication, even though sending a letter or message takes extremely little effort. Growing up with no communication leaves you constantly wondering, questioning, and trying to make sense of why there was no effort to stay connected. For me, years of complete silence and no communication, a little photo book from early 2000s from my birth mother, to preschool well into adulthood created a long-lasting sense of loss, confusion, and emotional distance that no adoptee should have to navigate alone from a biological family being absent. That silence becomes its own kind of wound and is an EXCUSE people give for disappearing, while the adoptee is left to carry the confusion and pain it creates. While I realize open adoption is not legally binding in the state of Texas, consistency matters. When birth families go silent for years or decades, the emotional consequences fall entirely on the adoptee who never asked to be placed in that position. It isn't fair to expect an adoptee to carry the emotional responsibility of fixing relationships that were never maintained. We don't owe our biological families contact, closure, or forgiveness. Adoption agencies often put this pressure on adoptive families to send updates when staying connected is a SHARED effort, and when one side walks away for decades, it's not the adoptee's burden to make that right again, so when your lazy birth mothers randomly wake up one day choosing to reunify with the birth children they never kept contact with, they fail miserably. This is the part adoption agencies rarely talk about. Agencies talk about love, hope, placement, and new beginnings, and those things can be beautiful. But they don't talk enough about: * what happens when birth relatives disappear * what open adoption promises go unfulfilled * how adoptees internalize the silence * how confusing reunions can be * how heavy it is to carry decades of unanswered questions * how complicated it is to rebuild trust * how harmful inconsistent communication truly is in the adoption community. Agencies and adoption agencies like Gladney give themselves a round of applause for doing absolutely nothing about this regarding birth families going MIA. They should better prepare both birth and adoptive families for that possibility, so the adoptee doesn't grow up feeling forgotten or responsible for everyone else's choices. And let me be absolutely clear: adoptees do not owe their biological families anything. Not a Christmas card, not a Mother's Day message, not acknowledgment of holidays or milestones because those things are earned through actually showing up. Adoptees deserve to have their boundaries respected and their voices heard. Reconnection, if it ever happens, should come from a place of mutual respect and emotional safety, not guilt or obligation. Adoption is lifelong, and adoptees should always have the right to decide what relationships feel healthy for them.

Amazing adoption agency! Birth parents and adoptive families are truly cared for here by an amazing…read morestaff.

From the owner: Full-service, licensed adoption agency serving expectant women, birth parents, and adoptive…read morefamilies across Texas. We specialize in domestic, infant adoption.

We absolutely loved working with legacy. As an adoptive family, we felt the care the team had for…read moreus and it meant a lot that they knew our names and story and we were not just a number on the list of waiting families. If we ever had a question they were easy to get in contact with and Tina herself took the time out of her busy day to reach out to us. We worked with Jennifer, Jordan, and Audrey and each woman was knowledgeable, respectful, and diligent. Audrey did our post placement meetings and was great and not intimidating at all. They are also very caring to our birth mother and provide counseling. If we adopt again in the future we will definitely use legacy again.

From the owner: Legacy Adoption Services exists to help build families through the gift of adoption. Our Texas…read moreadoption agency is a resource for adoptive families and expectant parents. Our knowledgeable and caring counselors have years of experience helping women and men navigate emotional decisions to help all parties reach a place of joy and peace. Expectant parents and adoptive parents can find responsive communication, professional support and unbiased counseling. Whether you're considering an adoption plan, or you're waiting to adopt, Legacy can help. If you are pregnant and not sure what do to next, let us help. Legacy Adoption Services provides unplanned pregnancy counseling and planning services. Our counselors are experienced and unbiased, and will support you as your navigate your options.

Will not take in dogs or strays. Beware of the civilians standing around inside trying to convince…read moreyou to contact "Rescues." You're paying this shelter with your Tax money, but they are not providing the services you're paying them for.

Dedicated staff, clean facility and animals all look well cared for. Shelter is always in need of…read moredonations. Blankets, towels, cat and dog food is always needed.

These folks can solve anything. Love to go in there…read morethey're alway prepared and. Know thier. Stuff

From the owner: Tax preparation, Financial Planning, Audit Review, Cash Flow Analysis, Budgeting, Payrollread more

Love this agency and being apart of making change in our Kids and families in our community.read more

Had an appointment with Cassey this morning at 11am for my daughter I have been waiting more than 1…read moremonth for this appointment. This Cassey calls me at 11:10am asking me if I'm joining her Zoom, I mention to her I never received the Zoom Code she was suppose to send it to my email. Very unprofessional and she still sounded half asleep.

Love love love love this place! All the cats are super cute and friendly! They have lots of space…read moreto run around and play! A cute quiet area for the chill cats to hangout and lots of toys and climbing stuff for the cats! Multiple rooms and lots of places to sit and hangout with the kitties. Kuerig drinks, candy and chips are offered and they have a very cute gift shop as well!

What a cute place! Well, I love a cat cafe. This spot lands a little more firmly on the "cat…read morerescue" side and much less on the actual cafe side. Very friendly staff and you pay ~$15 to enter a room full of cats ready to play with and adopt. The gift shop out front is wonderful! Cat toys, cat nip, cat-themed jewelry and t-shirts. There's a little bit of everything. The coffee set up, due to health regulations, is just a small Keurig machine, and you can't bring your drink into the cat visiting parlor. This place is dangerous, if you love cats, it may be almost impossible not to walk out with a new feline member of your family.