The list is out - the Hague accreditations of the US State Department
Friday 29 February 2008 the US state department published the agencies accredited or approved for the Hague.
Some of the agencies that didn't make the list are:
- Adoptions International (Hannah Wallace)
- Children of the World, Inc. (Rudy Rivera)
- ChildPromise Inc. (Jeannene Smith/Debbie Spivack/Cynthia Peck)
- Small Miracles International, Inc. (Margaret Orr)
- Rainbow House (Donna Clauss)
- World Child International (Carl Jenkin)
In short, the rogues gallery of Focus on Adoption
(FOA) didn't make it!!!
Families thru International Adoption was accredited, their Latin American Program Manager, Chris Huber, being on FOA's board and Aleda Madison's, Madison Adoption Associates was granted an accreditation for one year. I wonder if this is going to be the end of FOA. These people have shown remarkable survival skills. ChildPromise (formerly known as Reaching Out Thru International Adoption) maintained office even after the Masha Allen case. It seems they didn't survive the accreditation process though, they closed shop two weeks ago.
Something else struck me when reading up the State Departments list: the presence of four
for-profit entries. I don't know what it means for an organization to be approved instead of being accredited. Hopefully someone can fill me in on this.
Here is a list of some other interesting agencies missing from the list, it is far from complete, but contains several rogues not part of the FOA clan and several members of the Joint Council on International Children's Services. For the first time ever, I hope the links of this page will be dead real soon.
- Adopt Abroad (Carol Albers)
- Adoption Ark (Lena Kardajov)
- Adoption Avenues (Radu Baila)
- Adoption Blessings Worldwide (Tedi Hedstrom)
- Adoption Choice (Jill Gerlach)
- Adoptions From the Heart (Maxine Chalker)
- ADOPPT (Veronica Pendleton)
- A New Arrival (Lori Jones)
- Angel's Haven Outreach (Sherry Archer)
- Building Blocks Adoption Services Inc. (Denise Hubbard)
- Celebrate Children International (Susan Hedberg)
- Children's House International (Deborah Price)
- Commonwealth Adoptions (Marina Mayhew)
- Cradle of Hope (Linda Perilstein)
- Dove Adoptions International (LaDonna Stearns)
- European Adoption Consultants (Margaret Cole)
- Faith International Adoptions (John Meske)
- Florida Homestudies and Adoption (Greg Lee)
- Focus on Children (Dana Thornock)
- God's Families International Adoption Services (James Molter)
- Heart to Heart Adoption (Linda Wynn)
- Homecoming Adoptions (Robert Kuschel)
- International Families (Rupal Rao)
- Island Coast International Adoptions (Lori Bollman)
- Little Pearls (Debra Fisher)
- Main Street Adoption Services (Bob McClenaghan and Nina Vizitei-Heller)
- Plan Loving Adoptions Now (Judy Elkins)
- Save Eastern European Children (Dennis & Debbie Sparrow)
- Tree of Life (Bianca Marcu and Daniel Stinea)
- Uniting Families Foundation (Lynn Wetterberg, Vice President of Joint Council on International Children's Services)