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International Adoption Agency
History and Mission of Children's Hope International
Children's Hope
International is passionate about our mission of "Homes, Health
and Hope for Children in Need". As an international education
institute in 1982, we planted our roots in the international
adoption by providing our members with adoption assistance. In 1992,
we officially became Children's Hope International/China's Children.
As an international adoption agency to
begin adoption in China, we were often known in the beginning as
China's Children.
RESPECTED AND
EXPERIENCED: Of the hundreds of placements we make each
year, about one third are in China and the rest are divided in Russia,
Colombia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Kazakhstan. This wide variety of
adoption programs helps ensure adoptive families will be able
to adopt successfully.
LICENSED AND
ACCREDITED: We are a full service, licensed, not-for-profit
501(C)(3) international adoption and development aid agency, accredited by the COA
and Hague pursuant. Well-organized in each country in which we assist
families in adopting, our work is based on relationships that have
been established for many years throughout the world. We are
accredited by the Council on Accreditation which is the highest
level possible for an international adoption agency. Children's Hope
International was one of
the first agencies to receive accreditation by the Russian Ministry
of Education to legally place children from that country, and we are
currently awaiting re-accreditation.
REGIONAL OFFICES
THROUGHOUT THE US: The Children's Hope International home office is in
St. Louis,
Missouri (pictured above) with offices in
Arizona,
California,
Illinois,
Colorado,
Florida,
Georgia,
Kansas,
Minnesota,
New Hampshire,
New York,
Oregon,
Ohio,
Tennessee,
Texas and
Washington.
To contact an office by email, click on their link above.
To Access them
Online Click Here.
Click here for:
St. Louis staff personal
pictures and biographies.
INTERNATIONAL
OFFICES: We also have international offices in
Beijing and Guangzhou, China; Moscow, Russia (plus eight
additional
regions); Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam; Almaty, Kazakhstan;
and Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia; with representatives and partnerships in Colombia and India. We understand the importance of having well-trained, caring and
bi-lingual staff in each country to assist in processing
paperwork and, especially, to meet and accompany the adoptive
families the entire time they travel in country. We recognize
both the need and complexity of adopting internationally. Our
programs include bi-lingual staff that understands the legalities
and nuances of the culture with a bridge to answers and procedures in
the U.S. The staff is chosen for their competence and
caring; they are people of integrity and trust.
We realize this
visit to our website will not be able to answer all of your
questions. We encourage you to email or call us with
your questions. Click here email
Gloria Akers who handles all new inquiries. Or call 314.890.0086. Tell
our receptionist your state of residency and ask for the Children's
Hope office nearest you.
Please also see the 'Contacts'
page on this website to speak with an International Adoption Program Coordinator.
They will be happy and able to answer any questions you might have about
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