Adoption and Infant Foster Care

Service:  As a fully licensed agency, Catholic Charities provides a comprehensive array of services including pregnancy support services, home studies, placement services, infant foster care, assistance with medical and legal issues, and post-adoption counseling, and adult adoptee searches. Catholic Charities can help parents adopt in a variety of ways, including:

• Independent Adoption – connection between birth parent and adoptive parent is arranged other than through an adoption agency.
• Agency Adoption – where birth parent and adoptive parents are connected through Catholic Charities.
• Relative Adoption - adoption of a child by a family member.
• Step-Parent Adoption – adoption of a child by a step-parent.

Clients Served: Adoption is a lifelong process that involves the needs and interests of three sets of people: the child, the birth parents and the adoptive parents.

Fees for Services:  Orientation sessions are provided without charge. Adoption fees vary based on services completed for each specific situation.  

Service Area:  Throughout the Archdiocese of Milwaukee.

Contact:

Angela Treml
Director of Child Welfare Services
262-547-2463 Ext. 18
atreml@ccmke.org

Read about the seven facts that you should know about adoption

and then contact one of the following Catholic Charities offices to speak to an adoption worker:

Milwaukee

741 North Grand Ave., Suite 210
262-547-2463

Racine

2711 – 19th Street
262-637-8888

Sheboygan

503 Wisconsin Ave.
920-458-5726

Waukesha

741 N. Grand Ave., Suite 210
262-547-2463

Catholic Charities is licensed by the State of Wisconsin, is a Certified Open Adoption Practitioner, and is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children.