Aleda
Price Madison is
the Executive Director for Madison Adoption Associates. Aleda started the
business over 27 years ago, seeking a way to bring needy children and loving
families together. Her passion comes from her role as an adoptive, foster, and
biological parent.
Like many young couples, Aleda had many problems with conceiving and
carrying a pregnancy to full term. Miraculously, she gave birth to her daughter,
Diana, only to find herself again experiencing a multitude of problems with
several following pregnancies. Aleda then began shifting her efforts towards
adoption. She found happiness as a foster parent, but experienced several
difficulties when it came to adopting domestically. At that point she and her
husband, Chuck, began looking into international programs. In 1980, she adopted
Michael from Bogotá, Colombia. The family then happily added Christopher in
1983, from the same orphanage.
While staying at home to care for her young children, she began networking
with other adoptive parents, lawyers, and contacts to help find ways to make it
easier for families like hers, seeking to adopt. In 1981, she helped facilitate
her first adoption. Today, Madison Adoption Associates has assisted a multitude
of families, adopting from countries all over the world.
Aleda has a Bachelor's Degree from West Chester University, and has
completed 32 post-graduate credits. She has provided counseling to attorneys and
judges about the international adoption process, and has appeared on both
daytime and primetime television as an adoption expert. She also recently became
a board member for Focus on Adoption, an adoption advocacy organization.
Although Madison Adoption Associates works with many different countries, her
greatest enjoyment and love arises from the Guatemalan program, which she has
single handedly managed since the agency's conception, bringing together over
500 families.
Diana Bramble
began working with Madison Adoption Associates in 2002. Having two adopted
brothers, and witnessing the miracles performed by her mother, Aleda, adoption
work became a natural fit. It has also developed into her passion.
Diana serves as the
Associate Director of the agency, and performs a broad range of duties spanning
from casework to compliance and legal issues. Diana’s greatest love still
remains the China program and China special needs program. After personally
traveling to China in November 2004, and witnessing the overwhelming need of
loving homes for children with special needs, Diana completed the necessary
steps for Madison Adoption Associates to be accredited as a Waiting Child
placement agency. The program has been an incredible success thus far and a
personal victory for Diana, who fell in love with two special needs boys while
in China.
Diana graduated from University of Delaware with a BS in Psychology, and
minors in History and Spanish. She graduated with her MBA from Wilmington
University and graduated with her Masters of Social Work degree from Delaware
State University. She is happily married with two children, Charlie and
Danielle. The Brambles currently have a dossier in China and are looking forward
to expanding their family through adoption in the near future.
 Sara
Lang
joined Madison Adoption Associates in July
 2007 as an adoption associate and
waiting child specialist. Sara manages the placement of children with
special needs who are referred to Madison Adoption from China, as well as
assisting the agency with other adoption programs and assisting with program
development.
Sara brings with
her the experience of placing special needs and waiting children from Asia,
Eastern Europe, Central America, the Caribbean and Africa.
Sara holds a
degree in Special Education from Winthrop
University. Before moving to Delaware, Sara spent 15 years as a paralegal in Atlanta,
GA and Beaufort, SC. She also worked in the death-care industry for several
years (and she loved it!). She is a volunteer with several local animal
rescue groups, and she has served on the Board of Directors of
other non-profit organizations. She also volunteers her time with The Shepherd’s
Crook, an adoption ministry.
Sara and her
husband, John, built their family through international adoption. In September
2000 they brought home their two daughters from Arkhangelsk, Russia. Shortly
afterwards, Sara decided to turn her passion for her children into a career to
help other families come together through adoption.
Jamie Janssen Casey is the Executive Director of the Illinois branch of Madison Adoption Associates. She received her MSW from Loyola University in Chicago in 1999. Jamie joined Madison in 2001 as a social worker and in 2004 she became the Executive Director for the Illinois branch. She supports families in helping them gather the appropriate paperwork needed to complete a home study. She enjoys working with a variety of families and helping them through the various stages of the adoption process through home studies and post placement visits. She provides an enthusiastic, warm and friendly support to the families she works with.
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