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Adoption

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Interested in Adoption?

Certified Adoption Agencies

See a list of certified Wyoming adoption agencies licensed to practice in Wyoming here.

Other resources

Wyoming does not have many children in the foster care system who are free for adoption. Children typically return home or find permanency with relatives. Sometimes foster parents adopt a child from the Wyoming foster care system. Children who become free for adoption are often times referred to Wyoming certified adoption agencies.

  • AdoptUSKids
    For more information about youth waiting adoption, please contact an AdoptUSKids Foster Care and Adoption Specialist, available Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 8:00 pm (ET).
    English: 1-888-200-4055
    Spanish: 1-877-236-7831
    Email: info@adoptuskids.org
  • Raise the Future (Formerly the Adoption Exchange)
    For more information about Wyoming youth waiting adoption, please contact Kelly Farrier at Kelly.Farrier@raisethefuture.org or Kids@raisethefuture.org or call (303)755-4756 x221.
  • The Reel Hope Project
    To learn more about The Reel Hope Project – WY, please contact Ann Marie Root at annmarie@thereelhopeproject.org. For more information about Wyoming youth awaiting adoption, please contact info@thereelhopeproject.org.
  • Wendy’s Wonderful Kids
    Recruiter Leslie Crossland leslie.crossland@goodwillwy.org or (307)331-0831.
Accessing Adoption Records

Want to track down adoption records? Read about accessing adoption records here.

Confidential Intermediaries

Adoption Confidential Intermediaries (CI) work for adoptees and their biological families in hopes of reconnecting the family members or collecting important medical histories. CIs, as these trained volunteers are called, are given special access to court records concerning the adoption. Get more information on Confidential Intermediaries or read the brochure about the CI program.

These forms will be useful in accessing adoption records:

  • Adoptee’s Affidavit and Petition
  • Adoptee’s Sibling Affidavit and Petition
  • Adoptive Parent Affidavit and Petition
  • Birth Grandparent Affidavit and Petition
  • Birth Parent Affidavit and Petition
Wyoming Putative Father Registry

The purpose of the Putative Father Registry is to protect the parental rights of fathers who affirmatively assume responsibility for children they may have fathered and to expedite permanent placements for children. Get a Wyoming Putative Father Brochure and Registry form.

Attorneys

Attorneys often require the Report of Medical Examination SS-45 for adoption work.

Looking for Books, DVD’s, Training Curricula or Other Resources related to Adoption and/or Foster Care?

We have a number of resources housed at the Wyoming State Library which are available for inter-library loan. To view them, please click here.

Program Supervisor
Maureen Clifton
307-777-3570
maureen.clifton@wyo.gov

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