About Cradle of Love
Cradle of Love offers a more comprehensive approach than other adoption agencies. Families who work with us have tremendous resources at their disposal before, during and after adoption. We offer post-adoption social and educational groups, plus a vast referral network of outstanding professionals in such areas as art therapy, child/adolescent counseling, psychological testing, couples therapy, and more.
We also provide comprehensive domestic and international home studies that meet state and Immigration and Naturalization Services (I.N.S.) standards. Cradle of Love has more than a century of experience placing children in loving families. Our staff has the experience and professional training to help this process move smoothly. Our Georgia adoption counselors are experienced and licensed in all aspects of the adoption process.
We are a nonprofit Georgia adoption agency, licensed and supervised by the State of Georgia, Department of Human Resources. Cradle of Love, Georgia adoption agency, is dedicated to providing professional, comprehensive and confidential services to the triad of birth parent, baby and adoptive parents.
Our Mission
To seek and secure loving adoptive homes for children placed with our Georgia adoption agency and to lend emotional support, adoption counseling and adoption assistance to couples who want to adopt a child.
Our Couselors
Judy Golden, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, supervises the adoption program, working with birth parents and adoptive parents. Judy has been with Cradle of Love since 1980. She also supervises social work graduate students, social work staff, and does clinical work with adults, children and adolescents. Judy is a past president of the Georgia Association of Licensed Adoption Agencies.
Michelle Kaplan, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, has been with Cradle of Love since 2000. Michelle works with couples who are adopting domestically and internationally. She has led support groups for women coping with fertility issues and is a member of the Georgia Association of Licensed Adoption Agencies.
We also employ several allied professionals around the state of Georgia to complete home studies for Cradle of Love:
- Laura Wells, LCSW
- Joan McNeer, M.Ed. in Counseling
- Patricia Barrett, M.A.