Focus on Adoption (FOA)
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Persons
| Person | Relation type | Date from | Date to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aleda Madison | Board member | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Barbara Greenburg | Board member | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Carl Hocke | Board member | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Carl Jenkins | Board member | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Chris Huber | Board member | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Cynthia V.N. Peck | Board member | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Debbie Spivack | Board member | 2006 Jan 01 | |
| Donna Clauss | Board member | 2005 Jul 01 | |
| Jeannene Smith | Board member | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Jessie Baeza-Garcia | Board member | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Kevin Kreutner | Board member | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Lauren Cleary | Board member | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Lynne Jacobs | Board member | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Tom DiFilipo | Board member | 2005 Jul 01 | 2006 Dec 31 |
| Traci Kohler | Board member | 2006 Jan 01 | |
| Kelly Caldwell | Participates in | ||
| Hannah Wallace | President | ||
| Hannah Wallace | President | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Margaret Orr | Secretary | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Carolyn Callison Tiffin | Treasurer | 2004 Jan 01 | |
| Jeannene Smith | Treasurer | 2004 Jan 01 | 2008 Jan 31 |
| Traci Orr | Treasurer | 2008 Jan 01 | |
| Rodolfo Rivera (aka Rudy Rivera) | Vice President | 2004 Jan 01 |
Relations to other organizations
| Organization | Relation Type | Organization | Country | Date from | Date to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Focus on Adoption (FOA) | Cooperates with | Asociación Defensores de la Adopción(ADA) | 2005 Jan 01 | ||
| Focus on Adoption (FOA) | Member of | Joint Council on International Children's Services | 2008 Feb 01 | ||
| Focus on Adoption (FOA) | Part of | Lobby to keep Guatemala open | |||
| Focus on Adoption (FOA) | Sponsor of | 2005 2nd World Conference on Children without Parents | |||
| Focus on Adoption (FOA) | Sponsor of | World Initiative for Orphans (WIO) | 2007 Jan 01 |
During the "Hague Upheaval" in Guatemala, Hannah Wallace and Rudy Rivera (Vice President) developed the concept of Focus On Adoption™: An Intercountry Advocacy Organization, while organizing with the Association in Defense of Adoption and many other like minded advocates, to preserve and then improve adoption services for Guatemalan children who need families. She sees Guatemala as a beginning in the need to form child welfare coalitions in numerous countries where adoption is no longer an option for hundreds of thousands of children. She believes the entire adoption community needs a resource for educating itself about the issues impacting ICA and needs a center for advocacy to protect children's rights to grow within a family environment.
Documents
| Title | Publication date |
|---|---|
| FOA Guidestar Report | 2009 Apr 15 |
| Focus on Adoption: Who We Are and Mission | 2009 Apr 15 |
| Focus on Adoption - a Rogues Gallery | 2008 Feb 14 |
| Focus on Adoption - a Rogues Gallery | 2008 Feb 14 |
| Inside Guatemala's adoption pipeline: Latin nation tries to fight image as baby factory for the U.S. | 2007 Nov 11 |
| Revictimizing Victims | 2007 Jul 4 |
| Focus on Adoption 2007 Conference "Solutions" Agenda | 2007 Feb 21 |
| Focus on Adoption: Who we are and Mission July 2006 | 2006 Jul 14 |
| FOA IRS-990 2004, 2005 | 2005 Dec 31 |
| Speech - Defining the Best Interest of the Child | 2005 Jan 20 |
| Focus on Adoption Officers Dec 2003 | 2003 Dec 14 |
| Focus on Adoption's public comment on Proposed Hague Regulations |