My name is Ivy. I was born on Jan 15 2017, and met my parents on Jan 19 2017. From the day my foster parents picked me up, I never left them. We just didn’t know that would be the case. I was born to my birth mom and met my parents through foster care. …
My husband and I always wanted a family. We decided to adopt from foster care after weighing all our options from domestic adoption to IVF treatments. When we attended an orientation at LAS to see what foster care adoption was about, they made us feel very comfortable, so we decided to proceed with LAS. From …
My husband and I began our adoption journey with LAS in the fall of 2013. The onset of this process was a great deal of paperwork, PRIDE classes, which proved to be helpful, and home studies. In February 2014 we met our daughters, then ages three and four, at a McDonalds. I remember getting a …
I adopted two teenagers – first my son, at age 14; and then five years later my daughter, at age 16. With some similarities in their backgrounds and stories, my kids are as different as they come! My son is loud and gregarious, loves to learn, and threw himself into life in my neighborhood, forming …
Legacy Adoption Services (formerly Lutheran Adoption Service) is a joint partnership between Samaritas and Wellspring Lutheran Services. Both agencies handled adoptions individually in Michigan for many years. In 1977, the agencies agreed to join forces in order to provide more loving, forever homes for children in foster care who needed permanent placement. Since its partnership inception, LAS has found homes for thousands of Michigan foster care youth.
