Welcome to Dillon Southwest!

Dillon Southwest is a licensed, non-profit child-placing and adoption agency serving Arizona families.  Our agency was established in 1983 and is located in Scottsdale, Arizona.  Our work at Dillon Southwest has always been to help fulfill the need for loving homes for children from outside the US whose best interests would be served through intercountry adoption.

Dillon Southwest has a mutual service program with Eastern Social Welfare Society in Seoul, Korea to place Korean infants for adoption in Arizona and on a case by case basis in California.  Our agency has placed over 950 Korean children through our Korean Adoption Program, and it has been the agency's primary focus. We offer an Ethiopian Adoption Program through a collaborative working relationship with Illien Adoptions International, Inc. As a Hague accredited agency, we are very pleased that we are able to offer home study and post-placement services to Arizona families adopting children from all over the world. We have worked with families adopting from China, Russia, India, Haiti, Ghana, as well as other countries with international programs. Dillon Southwest continues to offer services to families after placement by supporting and sponsoring cultural and educational events.

Children from many countries are in need of good adoptive homes.  In addition to our placement programs at Dillon Southwest, we are pleased to work as a home study/post-placement agency for Arizona families interested in adopting children from agencies outside of Arizona.  For families working with an out-of-state agency for the placement of their child, Dillon Southwest will provide the local work that needs to be completed. This work includes the home study, education, post-placement services and re-adoption.

Our Mission

Dillon Southwest is committed to providing a loving, nurturing home for all children referred to the agency. The agency assists families who desire to provide homes to children through quality international adoption programs. It does this by providing local services to facilitate those adoptions. Dillon Southwest values cultural diversity and encourages its adoptive families to understand and celebrate the rich cultural heritage of all family members.