Oasis Adoption Services is a nonprofit organization doing business in the Greater Phoenix area. I posed ten questions to a representative of Oasis Adoption Services in an effort to familiarize Phoenix area residents with the organization. Here are the responses I received.

What is the name of the organization?

Oasis Adoption Services, Inc.

How long has the organization been operating in the Phoenix area?

In 2000 Oasis Adoption Services became licensed in Arizona as an Adoption Agency, and in 2003 incorporated as a 501-C Non Profit.

Does the organization serve a particular geographic area?

Oasis Adoption Services Inc.

provides adoption related services to adoptive parents and birth parents throughout Arizona.

Who is most likely to benefit from services provided by the organization?

We provide adoption services for people interested in becoming qualified as adoptive parents so they may pursue adoptions internationally or within the United States. Our services also include counseling to birth parents and assisting them through the process of selecting an adoptive family and making an adoption plan for their child.

Are there requirements or prerequisites for people to access your services?

People interested in becoming qualified as adoptive parents must qualify under the Arizona State Statues that dictate the qualifications of adoptive parents.

Three things about Oasis Adoption Services that people might not know.

1. Oasis Adoption Services provide individualized services to meet the client's needs because adoption often involves several agencies and/or attorneys. Clients may only need one or several services from our agency. The specific services we provide include education classes for international adoption, home studies for international adoption, home studies for domestic adoption, post placement visits/reports, assisting with finalizing adoption, counseling to birth parents, coordinating services at the hospital for the birth parents and the adoptive parents, taking consents from birth parents, preparing paperwork for the interstate compact, providing information for options in adopting.

1. Oasis Adoption Services have worked with over 700 families in the past nine years assisting with their adoptions within the United States and also from China, Russia, India, Guatemala, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Ukraine, Romania, Poland, Philippines, Fiji, Zambia, Libya, Colombia, and Mexico.
2. Oasis Adoption Services works closely with other adoption agencies and adoption attorneys throughout the United States to assist families with their individual adoption plans.

What is the local address?

Our office is in Tucson but the visits we make in the clients' home or a convenient public location.

What is the local phone number?

602-254-1991 or toll free 866-579-5578

What is the URL of the local web site?

http://www.OasisAdoption.com