Hope Embraced, a fully licensed adoption agency, was founded by the Executive Director, Jeanna Smith, who was a birth mom who chose adoption for her son when she was 20 years old, and she is also an adoptive mom. After graduating from college, she started working to help inform and educate prospective adoptive families and birth parents of their options of adoption and sharing her own open adoption story. She had an open adoption with her son and his family. When she adopted later, she was able to have an open adoption with the birth parents of her other children. This gives women in crisis the chance to talk to people who have been there and can understand the decision process in choosing whether adoption is right for them.

Jeanna has worked in adoptions for over 30 years. She started out in the Atlanta area doing home studies, birth parent counseling, and working with an adoption consultant, until becoming an adoption consultant herself. When moving to South Carolina in 2004, she and her husband decided to take things to another level in the field. Jeanna became a Certified Adoption Investigator and then shortly after started Hope Embraced. Her husband works with her as a professional photographer and graphic designer and now has also taken over 1000 hours of training and is a Certified Trauma Counselor. The agency also added being able to license foster families in 2022.

The Hope Embraced staff all have either personal experience in the field, or have been personally touched by adoption in some way. We have a birth mom, adoptive parents, previous single mom, child of adopted parent, and adoptee on our staff.

The Hope Embraced team will work on an individual plan with adopting families and birth parents. Hope Embraced treats every expectant/birth mom with respect and as part of a family. Other companies may offer similar services, but our services are different and come with a personal touch that brings another level of empathy.

At Hope Embraced, we strive to provide our clients with high-quality services personalized for their unique needs. If a mom is in a tough place and feels adoption is an option, if they are in a bad relationship and considering adoption for an added protection for them and their child, if they do not have a support system, or if they just do not feel prepared to parent the child, we are here to help. Our care team members are professional, courteous, and sensitive, and will be there to answer questions and help navigate each situation specifically with the moms and families that come to Hope Embraced.

Hope Embraced is so excited to announce getting into a new location on September 1st, 2022, in Inman, SC. We can meet in our office and/or we can travel to meet up with people if that is more convenient.

Thank you for allowing us to share about what we do and feel free to reach out anytime with questions or just to talk if you need a friend. We are happy to be in the community and of services in any way possible we can help!