Let us help you adopt children living in foster care homes through
our interstate adoption referral program!
Children Available…
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Caucasian, Hispanic, Afro-American, Asian or bi-racial ethnicity
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Children are usually 4 and older
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Semi-open adoptions typical
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Children of either gender
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Sibling sets are often possible
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Search 48 States for children
Adopting from foster care:
Our Interstate Adoption
program is designed to assist you in adopting children who need a
loving, permanent family right here in the United States. This is an
amazing adoption opportunity as there are about 600,000 children in
the US foster system and approximately 100,000 children are available
for adoption at any time. You can begin to search for children at
www.adoptuskids.org but you will need to join our program first in
order to register Hope for Families as your receiving agency. There
are strict rules designed to protect the safety of children that
restrict the release of information to private citizens, and the
various state agencies will only give you the child’s information, and
consider you for adoption if you are working with another local
licensed adoption agency.
Mission of Hope for Families:
Our goal is to make the whole
adoption process a positive experience supporting you to quickly
become adoptive parents!
As a
Florida licensed non-profit Child Placing Adoption Agency
#19-3363-000-08 is certified to complete domestic adoptions. The
purpose of Hope for Families is to assist loving, stable parents
fulfill their dream of a permanent family by adopting children who are
living in foster care in the United States.
Domestic Requirements vary State to State
but usually are:
Both married
couples can adopt, with few age restrictions,
other than younger than 65 years and older than 21 years, with
less than 50 years difference to the child. No more than three
previous divorces are acceptable and parents must not have a major
criminal record although we will review every situation. Applicants
must not have a major life threatening medical illness or severe
mental health diagnoses at the time of the application. Household
income must at least $30,000 or more. At least one of the adoptive
parents must be a U.S. Citizen or have permanent US resident status.
Adoption Process…
The first step is to have us complete your adoption home study, take a
parenting course,
along with signing our Interstate Adoption Review Contract so that you
can begin receiving detailed information about the children you select
within the foster system in other states outside of Florida. The
Interstate Compact and State where the child lives will require you to
have a licensed agency as your receiving agency so that we can assist
you in receiving, assessing and reviewing the confidential information
about the children you are interested in adopting and coordinate with
the Sending Agency for child placement.
Interstate adoption is the lowest cost adoption option!
Friends
of the Adopting,
Dr. Ken and Lynn Brown
“Let
the little children come unto me, and do not hinder them, for the
kingdom of God belongs to such as these.”
Matthew 19:14 |
