Birth Families
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Placed a release letter in your file with the state of Ky as well as the agency or attorney that gives your permission for contact-
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Adoption Group Meetings
If you are contacted by the state that the adoptee has filed the petition and wants contact - you must send a letter back to the state that gives permission.
You can find the birth listed in the birth index prior to 1970 which is listed in Alpha Order in a lot of the major libraries. If you have a certificate number, let us know to help you get the adopted name. If you are unable to go to the library to look this up here is an Order Form.
Write to the hospital where the delivery occurred to get a copy of your medical records (birth mothers are entitled to their medical records)
If the birth family has a heredity genetic disease with medical proof/statements from physicians - this information with the approval of the state can be passed on to the adoptee. (Medical - not personal info of the birth family, such as name, address)
Adult Adoption Division no charge for non identifying information.
Email is preferred for contact with Ms. Lovorn
Hours 7 AM to 3 PM
Sara B Lovorn
SNAP Specialist
Cabinet for Health and Family Services
Adoption Services
275 E Main St. 3 C-E
Frankfort, KY 40621
Ph: 502-564-2147 ext. 4493
Fax: 502-564-5995
e-mail: Sara.Lovorn@ky.gov
Form to order Non Identifying Information - pdf
Form to order Non Identifying Information - Word Document
Form to Petition the Circuit Court pdf
Pamphlet provided by the State of Ky click here explanations on services they provide for adoptees, birth parents, and birth siblings.
Acrobat Reader - free
Non Identifying Information - Charge is $75
Catholic Charities Adoption Services
2911 South Fourth Street
Louisville, Ky 40208-1303
Phone: (502-637-9786)
Fax: (502) 637-9780
ATTN: Kay and JoAnne
khackett@archlou.org or jsherman@archlou.org
Catholic Social Services -Northern Kentucky Charge $40 an hr
3639 Church St
Covington, Ky 41015
Phone: 859-581-8974
Fax: 859-581-9595
Contact: Monica Kuhlman or Gayle Jimenez
Sunrise Children's Services - Charges unknown use to be about $50
300 Hope Street
P.O. Box 1429
Mt. Washington, KY 40047-1429
(800) 456-1386
(502) 538-1000
fax (502) 538-1100
Louisville Baptist Orphan's Home click here
Kentucky Baptist Children's Home, now known as Glen Dale Children's Home. The two ministries operated separately until 1954 when the Kentucky Baptist Convention created the Kentucky Baptist Board of Child Care to oversee their operation. A third campus, Pine Crest Children's Home, opened in Morehead in 1956. It served children until its closure in 1971.
In 1980 and 1981, new cottages were constructed at Glen Dale and Spring Meadows. An emergency shelter was established in Elizabethtown in 1982. A similar facility, the Sunrise Dixon Center opened in Dixon the following year. In 1988, the Sunrise Morehead Center was opened in Morehead. The next year, the shelter in Elizabethtown became the agency's first treatment program and was renamed the Baptist Youth Ranch.
The adoption program that operated through Spring Meadows in the '60s was reopened in 1990 and is now known as Sunrise Pregnancy and Adoption Services. Cornerstone Counseling Sunrise's outpatient Christian counseling service, was begun in 1992 with one office in Bowling Green. There are now 3 Cornerstone offices -- in Berea, Richmond and Owensboro.
Chosen Children Adoption Services has closed in Louisville, Ky
5227 BARDSTOWN RD, LOUISVILLE, KY 40291
502-491-6410 (disconnected)
Something that the agency was doing as sharing information/pictures, etc between the birth family and the adopted parents appears no longer to be happening without notice to either party.
Their last annual report was filed to the Secretary of State on 4-21-2001. was listed as a non-profit corporation. and are in "bad" standing.
Please email us if you were involved with this agency.
After the close of Chosen Children, the files were turned over to the Mary Kendall Home - November 2002 - in Owensboro, Ky by Ray and Barbara.
Due to lack of storage space Mary Kendall Home, in 2005 turned over the files to the state of Kentucky for storage. Mary Kendall has very little information but does have a card file.
We will post additional information as it become available.
If you had a connection with this agency, please register and then join the Chosen Children Group on Yahoo
Mary Kendall Family Services Director
2508 New Hartford Rd, Owensboro, Ky 42303
Ph (270) 683-3723
This agency was in Louisville for many of the early years.
The records were turned over by the court to the Ky Baptist Children's Home. (see above)
A lot of children went thru this home in Louisville, Kentucky for many years and records were not kept very well. When the home was closed by default judgment what records were left were turned over to the Kentucky Baptist Children's Home for "safe keeping"
All Prayers Promise click here
All Prayers default on corporation click here
Mr Cromer's obit click here
There records were not correctly kept and when the old house was empty, several reports of records in boxes and on the floor that were never found.
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