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About MAPS Worldwide

At MAPS Worldwide, a multi-service, non-profit organization, we believe that every child needs and deserves a stable, permanent family, and our mission has been built on this conviction for over thirty years. We create opportunities at home and around the world through innovative services that promote permanency for children by building and strengthening families here in the US and around the world:

Adoption
Since 1977, we have placed over 4,400 children into loving, permanent adoptive homes. Our experienced, compassionate adoption staff assists families with nationwide domestic infant adoptions as well as international placements.

Stepping Stones Family Services
Our residential programs, located throughout Maine, promote permanency for children through infant mental health residential programs for children and their families and safe short-term and transitional housing programs.

US and International Aid
Our worldwide aid projects promote child welfare and family stability by helping women, families and children through foster care and orphanage partnerships, family stability programs, and collaborative medical initiatives. Our goal is to ensure that our work can continue to meet needs here at home and around the globe by developing an endowment program.

Post-Adoption Services
We recognize that adoption doesn’t end when a family brings their new child home. As adoptive families evolve and mature, we can offer support, education, referral and consultation to help children and parents grow and learn together.

International Child Welfare Consultation and Training
MAPS Worldwide has been recognized as an innovator in international child welfare training and consultation, working with partnering countries to develop programs promoting stability and permanency for their orphaned and abandoned children.