LDS Family Services is a private, nonprofit organization established in 1919.

LDS Family Services has 62 offices throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

The professional staff have at minimum a masters degree in the behavioral sciences.

The key services provided by LDS Family Services include:

Birth Parent Services

• Free Counseling to birth parents and birth grandparents regardless or race or religion.
• Birth parent support groups (where available).
• Temporary housing for birth mothers who wish to live away from home during the pregnancy.
• Medical and legal arrangements based on individual needs.
• Continued schooling arrangements.
• Adoption placement services tailored to the birth parent's needs, which may include the selection of adoptive parents, meetings, and exchanges of information.
• Birth parents may call 1-800-537-2229 for a referral to the office nearest them.

• An in-depth qualification process prior to couples adopting.
• Adoption education classes and support group.
• A wide range of adoption plans.

• At the request of local Church leaders, LDS Family Services provides professional assessment and counseling to individuals, couples and families.
• Common reasons for referral include, but are not limited to, marital conflict, parent-child conflict, addictions, abuse, depression and anxiety.
• Group counseling is offered in some offices based on clinical issues and need.