Welcome to ADOPTIONS: ADVOCACY & ALTERNATIVES

Adoptions: Advocacy & Alternatives, is a licensed child Placement agency founded by Joanne F. Gallagher, LCSW in 1992. Each staff member has a graduate degree in social work or marriage and family therapy. The staff shares over 38 years experience in the field of adoption and child welfare.
This adoption agency is a non-profit, non-sectarian agency which is guided by a community board of directions. Adoptions: Advocacy & Alternatives is licensed by the Sate of Colorado through the State Department of Human Services.

Joanne F. Gallagher, LCSW Executive Director
Jude M. Simmons, M.A. Placement Supervisor

Those We Help…

• Birth Parents with unplanned pregnancies
• Prospective Adoptive Parents wanting to adopt
• Hospitals, Attorneys, School Counselors
• Mental Health Professionals
• Physicians, Midwives and Nurses

What We Do…

• Professional, Compassionate Counseling for….
  • Birth Parent Decision Making, information and support
  • Adoptive Parent Counseling, training and support
  • Infertility healing and resolution for Adoptive Parents
  • Adult Adoptees
  • Open Adoption counseling and support
  • Post Adoption Support