About Us
St. Elizabeth Foundation is a local adoption agency that provides confidential, comprehensive counseling services to pregnant teens and young adults facing an unplanned pregnancy. It also provides medical are, continuing education and continuing counseling after the birth and placement for as long as needed. St. Elizabeth Foundation has been open since 1988 and we are licensed by the State of Louisiana Adoption Laws & Procedures. We have placed, to date, over four hundred babies! And we are proud of our excellent record of assisting Birthmothers and families with adoption.The Foundation is small and family-like! Our handful of employees are easy-going, honest, and available when you need them. We tailor the adoption process to the wishes of the Birthparent, not the adopting parents.

At St. Elizabeth Foundation, we mainly do variations of what are called OPEN adoptions. In an OPEN adoption, it is the Birthparent who is able to choose the adopting parents, meet openly at the Agency with the adopting parents, ask the adopting parents to be in the delivery room. The Birthmother will receive pictures, updated letters and videos from the adoptive parents for years to come. In most cases, the Birthparent chooses to make all of these choices for herself and her baby. If the Birthmother doesn't wish to make these choices, that is completely her option, and we will honor her wishes.

 

If any of our staff can be of assistance to you, please call us at (225) 769-8888 or 1-800-738-5683. We will be happy to talk to you, if for nothing else, than to help you to gather information about adoption. We have found that the most informed Birthparents tend to make the most appropriate decisions for their child.