Adoption Center For Family Building

Specialties

Adoption Services, Pregnancy counseling, Home study services, Illinois Adoption Agency, Indiana Adoption Agency

History

Established in 1996.

The agency was founded in 1996 by Tobi Ehrenpreis and Maggie Gill Benz. Both social workers and adoptive mothers, Tobi and Maggie combined their administrative and clinical expertise to establish the Adoption Center for Family Building. This progressive adoption agency was designed as an alternative to the more traditional agencies. Open adoption services are personalized and designed to meet the needs of birth mothers and adoptive parents.

Since it’s beginning, the Adoption Center for Family Building has grown steadily. In 1998, the agency was licensed in Indiana. Over the years, the agency has conducted more than 1,200 home studies for domestic and international adoptions, provided professional counseling and support to more than 1,700 expectant mothers and birth fathers, and placed over 1000 infants for adoption

Meet the Manager

Tobi E.

Manager

Tobi is co-​founder and Executive Director and she has been working in the adoption field for the past 26 years. She holds a bachelors Degree in Social Work from the University of Michigan, a Masters Degree in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago and a Masters Degree in Public Health from the University of Illinois. She oversees all administrative services and counsels families waiting to adopt. In 2001, Tobi founded On Your Feet Foundation, an Illinois and Indiana not-​for-​profit that assists birth mothers following an adoptive placement.