CHILDRENS HOME SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA

Children’s Home Society of Virginia (CHSVA) is a full-service, private, nonprofit 501(c)(3), non-sectarian licensed child-placing agency, and one of Virginia’s oldest adoption agencies. Since 1900, CHSVA has been guided by the fundamental belief that every child deserves a home. To date, CHSVA has served nearly 17,000 children, youth and families.

CHSVA’s mission today is to find permanent adoptive homes for children of all ages throughout the Commonwealth, and to provide critical support services to birth and adoptive families, and past and present adoptees. Our full spectrum of programs and services includes working with departments of social services to find permanent homes for the 700+ Virginia children available for adoption at any given time, and providing impactful ongoing post-adoptive counseling to maintain successful families after adoptions have been finalized.

Our My Path Forward program provides housing, life skills training, counseling and case management for youth who have aged out of the foster care system in Virginia at 18 years of age. This program delivers on our goal of offering a continuum of services to provide permanence for all of Virginia’s at-risk youth.

In addition, CHSVA offers unbiased family support groups, activities for adoptive families and children, and heritage and search services for adult adoptees.