Counseling And Adoption Services

This not-for-profit organization provides professional counseling and adoption services as well as educational programs throughout the diocese.

Counseling Services

Professional Counseling - individual, pre-marital, marital, annulment, family, adoption, post-abortion, unplanned pregnancy and group therapy

Post-Abortion Reconciliation (Project Rachel) - helping the individual to sort through feelings and deal with unresolved conflicts, then move toward reconciliation

Emergency Pregnancy Service - confidential tests, counseling, and information on medical care, financial assistance, living arrangements and maternity home care; enhancing self-understanding, developing mature decision-making regarding parenting and adoption

Adoption And Foster Care Of Infants - services include application, home study, placement, supervision, and finalization procedures required to adopt, including infants, foreign-born and special-needs children

Living Without Violence - a group for men who want to learn to live without domestic violence, control their temper and find more effective ways of dealing with relational conflicts

Migration And Refugee Services - resettlement assistance

Community Education

Family Life Series - topics include communication, parenting, dealing with adolescents, grief, crisis management

Sexual Abstinence Program - for public and private schools, grades 6-12

Marriage Enrichment Program - four sessions, available to parishes upon request