For Families

Adoption Navigators are experienced adoptive parents who offer guidance and personal knowledge of the adoption process to potential adoptive families.

MARE Match Support Program

This page is designed towards helping people learn more about the adoption process and answers our most frequently asked questions on how to adopt a child.

This page offers a list of frequently asked and answered questions on child adoption.

Here you can find lists of licensed agencies throughout the entire state of Michigan. These lists include: foster care adoption agencies, special needs agencies, DHS contact information, infant adoption agencies, international adoption agencies, and pregnancy counseling.

This page includes a list of state and region adoption resource exchanges outside of Michigan. Prospective families can also visit adoptuskids.org to find out more information on child adoption throughout the entire United States of America.

The View Waiting Children page displays all of the MARE children waiting to be adopted. To inquire about a child, just click on their name.

This page displays the Child Functioning level guidelines of children looking to be adopted.

This page breaks down the number of children available for adoption per region in the state of Michigan by impairment type, gender, age, and race.

This page is where users can see which children have been recently matched with a family or those that are no longer available for adoption.

MARE Meet & Greets are events that allow prospective adoptive parents the chance to interact with many waiting youth.

MARE Meet & Greets are events that allow prospective adoptive parents the chance to interact with many waiting youth.