Counseling Resources

From emotionally dealing with an unwanted pregnancy, to good health during pregnancy, to adoption decisions and life after pregnancy.

Resources & Counseling at About.com - From emotionally dealing with an unwanted pregnancy to good health during pregnancy to adoption decisions and life after pregnancy.

Unplanned Pregnancy & Abortion Information at Optionline.com - A list of pregnancy centers where you can get free pregnancy tests, caring and confidential counseling from trained professionals, medical referrals, adoption information, information about medical insurance or government assistance, temporary shelter, and much more. Pregnancy centers are listed by state.

Heartbeat International - For those needing help, call the organizations listed by Heartbeat International. The listing includes National hotlines, National networks, and adoption and post abortion assistance.

For Parents of Teens - When your teen is having a baby. This KidsHealth for Parents site tells you what you should know and consider, including feelings your teen may be experiencing.

Counseling Links

Alternatives to Abortion

• Baby Moses Project - The Baby Moses Project was established to address an alarming increase in newborns being abandoned in perilous places. The mission of the project is to publicize a confidential, and safe alternative to newborn abandonment.
  
• Adoption.com - Adoption.com is committed to helping as many children as possible find loving, permanent homes. We also provide critical information at the decision-making moment to women facing crisis pregnancies. We assist adoptees and birthparents to find birthfamilies, and we help hopeful adoptive parents make adoption dreams come true. We are especially committed to helping special needs children in the U.S. and around the world, who otherwise wouldn't be able to find families.
  
• Lutherans for Life - Lutherans For Life believes that the Church is compelled by God’s Word to speak and act on behalf of those who are vulnerable and defenseless. The crisis of our times is the repudiation of Biblical truth manifested in the wanton destruction of innocent human life through legalized abortion-on-demand and the growing threat to the lives of others through legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia. Therefore, as Lutherans For Life, we will strive to give witness, from a Biblical perspective, to the Church and society on these and other related issues such as chastity, post abortion healing, and family living.
  
• Priests for Life

Crisis Pregnancy Centers

• Bethany Christian Services - Services include adoption, temporary foster care, counseling, training, and family support because we know children thrive in safe, loving, and strong families. We are committed to finding the best families for children in need around the world. Our mission calls us to demonstrate the love and compassion of Jesus Christ.
  
• Birthright Services - Birthright provides caring, non-judgmental support to girls and women who are distressed by an unplanned pregnancy. Using its own resources and those of the community, Birthright offers positive and loving alternatives. Birthright presents many services and refers for many more. We provide friendship and emotional support, free pregnancy testing, and maternity and baby clothes. We also give information and referrals to help clients meet legal, medical, financial, and housing needs. Birthright treats each woman as an individual who deserves kindness and respect, as well as personal attention to her unique situation. All Birthright services are free, absolutely confidential, and available to any woman regardless of age, race, creed, economic or marital status.
  
• Care Net - Care Net and our network of more than 1,100 pregnancy centers offer hope to women facing unplanned pregnancies by providing practical help and emotional support. Free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, abortion information, parenting classes, and material assistance are just some of the many services offered that empower women to choose life. As an umbrella organization, Care Net seeks to promote, prepare, and plant pregnancy centers across North America.
• Covenant House - Homeless kids come to Covenant House in crisis. Immediately and without question, we meet their basic human needs by providing a nourishing meal, a shower, clean clothes, medical attention, and a safe place away from the dangers of the street.
  
• The Heidi Group - The Heidi Group is a non-profit organization promoting life affirming hope and dignity to girls, women, and their families seeking self-sufficiency. Our pregnancy centers in inner city, underserved areas address the issues that accompany unplanned pregnancy.
  
• Optionline.com - Option Line provides caring, confidential support to anyone affected by an unexpected pregnancy. Our consultants are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via a toll-free phone number, email or live chat. We will connect you with a nearby pregnancy resource center that offers pregnancy tests as well as answers to your questions about pregnancy, STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infections), abortion, adoption, parenting, medical referrals and much more.
• Spence-Chapin - Spence-Chaoin is an accredited non-profit agency that has been offering quality adoption services for more than 100 years. Our mission is to find adoptive homes for children in need here and in countries around the world.
  

National Help Numbers

• Heartbeat International - We’re passionate about mobilizing this generation of Christians around the world to make abortion unwanted now and unthinkable for future generations. We’re passionate about achieving this through the development of pregnancy help centers, maternity homes, and non-profit adoption agencies from neighborhood to neighborhood across the country and around the world. We’re passionate about our role at Heartbeat International to serve as the leadership development and support supply line for this growing pregnancy help movement.
  
• Madisons Foundation - Madisons Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality and quantity of information available to parents of children with rare, life-threatening diseases, and to facilitating effective communication among parents, physicians and medical experts.
  
• Physicians for Life Resources - Physiciansforlife.org exists to draw attention to the issues of abortion, euthanasia, stem cell research, cloning, infanticide, teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, out-of-wedlock sexual activity and the medical merits of risk elimination through sexual abstinence. Our sponsoring organization, Alabama Physicians For Life, Inc. (APFLI), was founded in 1986 and has produced a series of brochures, booklets, and digests which are distributed throughout the USA, and internationally.

Child Support

• Federal Child Support - The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a federal agency funding state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families.
  
• Single Parents Network - A hub, that has collectively gathered single parent web sites, articles, information, government resources, online discussion forum support boards, books and so much more, for any one looking for single parent information.
  
• SupportKids - At Supportkids, we pride ourselves on delivering results for our clients. We accomplish this through individualized attention on each case we work. With that in mind, we have developed specialized teams that provide focused expertise as your case moves toward the ultimate goal: getting the child support you deserve!

For Teens

• Pregnancy.about.com - "Everyone loves a newborn baby. But there is so much to learn to do between bathing and holding, diapering and feeding. So learn what you can before the baby!"
  
• TeenPregnancy.org - The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy seeks to improve the lives and future prospects of children and families and, in particular, to help ensure that children are born into stable, two-parent families who are committed to and ready for the demanding task of raising the next generation. Our specific strategy is to prevent teen pregnancy and unplanned pregnancy among single, young adults. We support a combination of responsible values and behavior by both men and women and responsible policies in both the public and private sectors.

For Fathers

• Fatherhood.about.com - "Fatherhood has a tendency to change men for the better. Find out what the research says about the ways that fatherhood benefits a man in all aspects of his life."
  
• Life Choices Pregnancy Center - Life Choices Pregnancy Center offers free, confidential, compassionate services. If you or anyone you know is struggling with decisions concerning pregnancy or sexual behaviour...we can help. Our non-judgemental peer counselors are here to listen and help you work through options.
  
• Placerville Pregnancy Counseling Service - We care about the emotional, physical and spiritual life of the woman. Our purpose is to offer facts which will enable her to make fully informed decisions regarding her pregnancy, as well as to view herself as an individual with infinite value.
  

For Parents of Teens

• KidsHealth - If you're looking for information you can trust about kids and teens that's free of "doctor speak," you've come to the right place. KidsHealth is the most-visited site on the Web for information about health, behavior, and development from before birth through the teen years.

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