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Families Like Ours, Inc.

Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 10159
Bainbridge Island, Washington 98110

Physical Address*:
600 Stewart Street, Suite 1313
Seattle, Washington 98101

206-441-7602
1-877-230-3055
206-212-2804 - fax

The best way to reach us however is by clicking here.

*Our staff is normally out in the field or working from satellite offices. Please contact us by phone or email to schedule a specific time to meet with someone at our physical office. You will also find us at the office on specific volunteer and training days.

We cannot do this alone and frankly we shouldn’t be doing this alone. This is your community and we all have a very personal stake in its success. In order to obtain that success we need your help. Families Like Ours, Inc. is always looking for community volunteers. If you would like to lend a hand and help, or have an idea please contact us by clicking here or calling us at 1-877-230-3055.

Yes of course. Our children not live in a world that is only gay and lesbian, or “straight” (for lack of a better word) families; Families Like Ours celebrates the diversity of all non-traditional adoptive families and does not discriminate based on family structure. We expect all our families members to respect the differences in families and welcome all adoptive families and professionals regardless of sexual orientation, identity, age, race, disability, or income status. We have an open challenge to all other agencies, nonprofits, commercial businesses, faiths and governments to take this same view of non-discrimination.

Simply the fact of being an adoptive family creates what is often viewed as a “non-traditional family.” As you can see throughout the Families Like Ours web site, we have information pertaining to issues related to general adoption, specific to gay and lesbian families and single parent adoption families. We do not separate a “non-traditional family” as a family from one group of society, but simply those families that have or wish to have children through adoption.

Families Like Ours, Inc. is a nonprofit organization with funding coming from a variety of resources including community grants, foundations, direct donations and corporate sponsorships. However our main source of funding comes from you, the families and professionals that use the services of Families Like Ours. Every dollar counts. Make your tax deductible donation count today.

The mission of Families Like Ours, Inc. is to make change by breaking down the barriers within the adoption and foster care communities. Therefore, reducing the amount of time our children are waiting for a stable and safe forever family.

Our programs and services are designed to increase adoption awareness and help reduce the number of adoptable children in foster-care by providing a centralized resource for support, information and education to adoptive families and professionals. While our emphases are with gay and lesbian adoptive families, we welcome the diversity of all families regardless of sexual orientation and family structure.

Adoption Exchanges are here to provide families and professionals with local and regional support and advocacy. The main role of all exchange's is to provide family specific recruitment for waiting children, break down placement barriers, educate their local, and regional adoption community, and help families navigate through the adoption and foster care maze.

What our exchange does …

• FLO is the only independent national Adoption Exchange, that means we work with all families and professionals, in all states. Most exchanges are tied to a specific state, county or region, we do not work that way.
• FLO strongly advocates for all pre & post adoptive and foster families and youth, GLBT and non GLBT alike
• FLO was established as a peer-to-peer, volunteer network of families and professionals that share the same goal, which still continues today
• FLO creatively breaks down placement barriers for kids, families and professionals