The mission of the International Adoption Clinic is to serve the initial and ongoing medical, developmental and emotional needs of adoptive parents and their children from around the world.  We are a non-profit clinic located at Children's South in Birmingham, Alabama.  We are staffed with professionals who have a love for children that have been abandoned in developing countries and desire to see them accepted into loving and well-equipped families. 

Most of us have worked in orphanages, adoption agencies or have adopted ourselves.  Through our interdisciplinary clinic that includes pediatrics, occupational therapy and family therapy, we provide comprehensive medical services to assist parents in their exciting journey through international adoption including pre-adoption and post-adoption services.  The clinic has been open for six years now.  Our staff has served children adopted from:  China, Kazakhstan, Russia, Guatemala, Peru, Vietnam, India, Thailand, Ethiopia, Ukraine and more. 

Families travel to our clinic from all over the southeast to attend our "Preparing Families for International Adoption" seminar.  Our next LIVE seminar will be held Saturday, July 25, 2009 from 9:00-3:00.  Please contact our office to be added to our list of families interested in attending the January class.  We will email the date to families on this waiting list once details are finalized.  The Online Class is now available!  Contact our office if you are interested in viewing the seminar online. 

Families from all throughout the United States contact our office to receive a Pre-adoption Medical Review by Dr. Jennifer Chambers. 

We look forward to hearing from you as well!  You can contact us adoption@peds.uab.edu or 205-939-6964.