Alcea is a surrogacy agency that stands apart with a clear mission to create equal opportunities for everyone seeking to build a family through surrogacy. Based in New York, the agency was founded by a team with personal experience in the surrogacy journey, giving them a genuine understanding of the process and the diverse needs of intended parents.
At Alcea, the focus is on what truly matters to intended parents, recognizing that every path to parenthood is personal and different. The team is dedicated to offering support at every stage, ensuring that each journey is handled with care and attention to individual needs.
The agency offers flexibility by not requiring an upfront exclusivity agreement, allowing intended parents to move forward ...
At Alcea, the focus is on what truly matters to intended parents, recognizing that every path to parenthood is personal and different. The team is dedicated to offering support at every stage, ensuring that each journey is handled with care and attention to individual needs.
The agency offers flexibility by not requiring an upfront exclusivity agreement, allowing intended parents to move forward when they feel ready. Their fee structure is designed to align with key milestones throughout the journey, with payments made at important stages such as surrogate selection, contract execution, confirmed heartbeat, gestational progress, and completion of the pre-birth order.
Alcea places strong emphasis on safety and compatibility by working with carefully pre-screened surrogates. They also provide in-house psychological support for both the carrier and intended parents, helping to ensure emotional well-being throughout the process. Additional thoughtful touches include curated monthly “Bump Boxes” for the carrier, as well as third-trimester housekeeping and postpartum support, all included within the agency fee. The agency is also proudly inclusive, welcoming families from all backgrounds, including the LGBTQIA+ community.
Case Management
Counselling & Support
Escrow Management
As a carrier, I've had a great experience with Alcea. Angela is kind, understanding, and patient. Would definitely recommend!
Alcea offered empathetic support and clear communication for a seamless third party journey! We are grateful every day for our baby boy, and can't thank Alcea and our carrier enough.
I had an amazing experience as a carrier with Alcea. From the very beginning, Angela was incredibly supportive and attentive, ensuring I felt cared for every step of the way. She provided clear communication and resources to make sure I was fully informed and comfortable throughout the process.
Between the personal experience of closed adoption and the years of the infertility roller coaster that followed, a calling to third party reproduction seemed inevitable for Alcea Co-Founder and Executive Director Angela Richardson-Mook. With a successful corporate project management background, fifteen+ years of third-party reproduction expertise, and professional connections to alternative family building nationwide, she has brought her dream of a female-owned, full-service, holistic surrogacy agency to life. As an adopted woman, a gestational carrier, an egg donor, and a mother via IVF, she has a unique outlook on the mechanics of what truly composes a family. By leveraging her knowledge as a corporate executive and as an active member of the surrogacy community, she built unique bonds with a community of people all experiencing different nuances of infertility, yet with all the same dissatisfaction with the status quo. Personal relationships with intended mothers and fathers, surrogates, donors, and agency employees, evolved into the collective creation of a decidedly different surrogacy agency strategy.
As a queer mother of three, who has helped to grow two separate families as a surrogate, Christy understands the complex and unique needs of third-party reproduction. She brings more than 15 years of personal experience in the community, including the expansion of her own family via reciprocal IVF, carrying her Partner’s biological embryo. The desire to serve others is what ultimately called her to surrogacy. and this is when she first met Angela in 2005. After years of working in financial operations management and executive corporate travel, she was delighted to embark on advocacy work that would best utilize her collective career accomplishments and personal experiences. Surrogacy and third-party reproduction have shaped her life’s work and is where her heart truly resides. In addition to professional practices, staying active and healthy are important parts of her daily life. Besides a small obsession with podcasts and anything true-crime; some of Christy's passions include exploring outdoors with family, hiking, kayaking, and practicing yoga.
Rose Cullen is an editor and artist currently based in New York. As the child of a surrogate, Rose grew up fascinated with the third party reproductive world. They hope to help bring the teams vision to life using robust videography. Currently they are studying Japanese and working to become certified in the Adobe Suite and Davinci Resolve programs.
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