Alaska Adoption Services

Alaska Adoption Services (AAS) matches prospective adoptive families with expectant mothers and fathers to safely place infants into loving, permanent families. We provide expectant parents with education, support, compassion, and empathy as they consider parenting or making an adoption plan, and we guide adoptive families through the emotional, educational, and legal aspects of the adoption process.

AAS was founded in early 2019 by Tami Watson and Victoria Ross when Alaska’s only other domestic infant adoption program closed. Recognizing the need for a local agency to support Alaskan families and keep children in-state, AAS was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit on May 6, 2019, and licensed as a Child Placement Agency by the State of Alaska on July 10, 2019. Since opening, AAS has had the privilege of serving adoptive and birth families across Alaska in a variety of meaningful ways.

Since its inception, AAS has expanded its services to meet the evolving needs of families. In January 2021, AAS was awarded the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids Grant through the Dave Thomas Foundation, allowing us to help legally free children and youth achieve permanency through adoption. In July 2021, AAS received the Adoption and Guardianship Home Studies for Resource Families Grant from the State of Alaska, enabling us to partner with the Office of Children’s Services to complete adoption and guardianship home studies for families adopting through foster care.

AAS also launched a Community Diaper Pantry in July 2021, providing diapers, wipes, and baby essentials to families in need and supporting approximately 400 families each month, with over 30,000 diapers a month.

Alaska Adoption Services is currently the only domestic infant adoption agency in the State of Alaska. We are proud to serve families statewide and believe there is a forever family for every Alaskan child.