Your generosity helps us support children, birth parents, and adoptive families at every step of their journey. Together, we can make a lasting impact by creating loving, permanent homes for children in need.
Looking for other ways to give, such as through a donor-advised fund or a stock gift? We can help! Please review our Ways to Give page, and reach out to our Development team at [email protected] for more information.Â
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For more than 115 years, Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children has been connecting children in need of permanent homes to loving, forever families and providing them and their birth and adoptive families with lifelong support. Through the generosity of our supporters, we are able to find incredible adoptive families for some of the most vulnerable children through our Special Needs Adoption Program and Waiting Child Program, which is often the last opportunity a child may have to finding a family. Your contribution ensures that every child, no matter their needs or circumstances, can have the love of family.
Spence-Chapin started the Granny Program in 1998 to offer one-on-one love, attention, and care to children living in orphanages around the world. The program addresses the difficult realities faced by children living in institutionalized care, who are often deprived of the one-on-one attention and care they need to development and thrive. The Granny Program is a simple but impactful model that pairs individual “Granny” caregivers—women and men from surrounding communities who receive training in child development—to children living in institutionalized care to spend several hours a day, five days a week, with that child, helping them reach developmental milestones and providing them with the love and care they deserve.
Adoption is not just one moment in time, but a lifelong journey. Spence-Chapin is there to support every birth parent, adoptive family, and adopted persons throughout all of life’s stages with community programming, counseling, and more. Through our donor-funded Imagine Nursery Boutique, Spence-Chapin is also able to support new and expectant mothers who are experiencing crisis with brand new high-quality baby clothing and supplies while they work with our social workers on a plan for the future. No matter what stage of life you are in, Spence-Chapin is there to provide support, every step of the way.Â
Waiting Children Profiles
Thank you for your interest in adopting through Spence-Chapin! We are able to share the profiles of children who are considered to be the most in need and are waiting internationally to be matched with an adoptive family. The children featured on this page have been waiting for the longest to find families and consist of children who are older, part of a sibling group, or children with a diagnosed medical condition. In order to respect the privacy of these children, this page has been password protected.
Spence-Chapin takes the privacy rights of the children that we are seeking to place very seriously, and share the profile with you under the following conditions:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PASSWORD ACCESS
That you acknowledge and understand that
1. Misuse of the content, and/or linking to any sites that reflect practices that involve the sale, abduction, exploitation, or trafficking of children is strictly prohibited.
2. You have been given limited access to confidential information in the form of images that you will not disclose to any person or in any manner that is inconsistent with applicable policies and procedures of Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children.
3. The confidentiality obligation shall continue indefinitely, including at all times after my association with Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children.
4. You are not permitted to release, copy, distribute, or sell any of these images to third parties in any form.
5. Impermissible disclosure of the images may result in legal actions being taken against you, by or on behalf of that person.
6. You are doing this freely, voluntarily and with a full understanding of what you are agreeing to by entering/accessing this blog.
7. Thank you for your interest in providing a loving home for a waiting child! We look forward to connecting with you soon to continue discussing adoption paths at Spence-Chapin. We hope that you like us on Facebook, follow us on twitter, and keep up with our families through our adoption blog!
Warm regards,
The Adoption Team at Spence-Chapin
Phone: 212-400-8150
Email: [email protected]
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