Services

MATERNITY COUNSELING (click here for more information)

Pregnancy and childbirth are supposed to be happy occasions. If your circumstances are such that the joy is replaced by stress and hardship, AGAPE may be able to help. Women who feel unprepared to parent due to lack of financial or emotional support, youthfulness, or other situations may seek alternatives to parenting. AGAPE is here to encourage you to face a crisis pregnancy with the help of a compassionate counselor who will assist you. AGAPE’s role is not to promote adoption, but to help you to think through your circumstances and make a plan based on what you feel will be best for the child, yourself, and your partner. Facing the situation and making decisions that support life may help you to deal with the choice to parent or to plan adoption with a clearer sense of peace. AGAPE’s counselors can help you to identify the strengths and resources in your life, as well as the stresses and needs that make parenting difficult.

FOSTER CARE (click here for more information)

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a child without a home? Thousands of children across Tennessee struggle with that situation daily. For a number of reasons children have to leave their families and enter the foster care system. Sometimes the children are victims of abuse and neglect. Parents who abuse alcohol and drugs or have emotional problems do not always make the best decisions regarding the care of their children. Sometimes, families face homelessness, financial hardships, lack family support, and are weighed down with stress that is unmovable. AGAPE typically has 50 to 70 of these children in foster care on any given day. 

ADOPTION (click here for more information)

With the belief and conviction that every child deserves a family, AGAPE is here to help find that home for newborn infants as well as older children. A “forever family” is AGAPE’s goal for each of them. While some of the children are adopted at birth, others are adopted at a later age. Some of our children in foster care are eventually adopted because they are unable to return to their natural family. The end result of adoption is these children find the love and support that comes through a family.

COUNSELING SERVICES (click here for more information)

We live in a world where children and families face an ever-increasing number of pressures. AGAPE’s licensed staff counselors are able to help individuals, as well as families, deal with these pressures. A sliding scale fee makes this service available to anyone needing help. Whether its depression, anxiety, emotional or behavioral challenges with a child, or marital difficulties, AGAPE’s dedicated professionals want to help you back on the path to healing.