The Up Center is a trusted nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening families, investing in children, and creating healthy, resilient communities. Serving Hampton Roads for over 140 years, The Up Center provides essential behavioral health, family support, and community-based programs that empower people to overcome life’s challenges. From foster care and adoption services to youth mentoring and counseling, The Up Center ensures that every child grows up in a safe, nurturing environment. Their family counseling, housing assistance, and parenting education programs help families build stability and hope for the future. For those facing mental health challenges, The Up Center offers outpatient counseling, substance use support, and the Cohen Clinic for military families — ensuring accessible, compassionate care for all. Committed to inclusion and empowerment, The Up Center also supports individuals with disabilities and provides representative payee and sponsored home services.

FLS provides free adoption counseling and information to expectant parents anywhere in Virginia and residents of the Liberty Godparent Home who desire to learn about the option of adoption. Our domestic infant adoption program offers a variety of options for expectant parents wishing to customize an adoption plan to fit their situation and needs. In addition, the agency provides home studies, adoptive parent preparation, and post-placement services to Virginia families pursuing international adoption, domestic adoption with another agency, embryo adoption or a private adoption. We are committed to the value and sacredness of human life by providing quality services that build and strengthen the family.

UMFS is a nonprofit agency that provides a comprehensive array of programs to meet the needs of high-risk children and parents to enable them to overcome challenging circumstances and succeed.

The National Council For Adoption is the leading expert on adoption issues, providing resources and education for all people and organizations in the adoption world, and advocating for sound policies so that every child can thrive in a nurturing, permanent family.