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Children at Heart hosted an Open House Fundraiser Event on Friday, September 23rd, to show off our new office in Wilmington, NC. Check out the media coverage of the event, as well as a generous donation made by Paysage Interiors! |
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Making happy homes is a priority to two local groups here in Wilmington, Children at Heart Adoption Services, Inc. andPaysage Interiors. After a fun few months of creating a new room, Children at Heart and Paysage are ready to reveal the redesigned space that has come to be all from a simple wish posted on Facebook. Additionally, with the assistance of one local birthmother, Children at Heart founded a monthly birthmother support group - a first for this area. "We had space for the meetings at our office, but the only furniture we had was a hand-me-down conference table that was in the office when we moved in. It really wasn't appropriate for what we were using the space for, but it was all we had until Paysage stepped in," said Bergeron. |
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Hague Renewal Accreditation Update As part of the Hague Renewal Accreditation process that we are currently undergoing, the general public has an opportunity to provide feed back about Children at Heart's performance as an adoption service provider. Click here to access the information about this opportunity on the COA website. Pertinent links regarding Hague and international adoptions: ______________________________________ |
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April 2011: Children at Heart is excited
to announce that our Wilmington, NC office
has moved from Wrightsville Avenue to
254 North Front Street, Suite 200!
We feel that moving our office to the
heart of historic downtown Wilmington
will allow us to be in touch with more businesses and people who support
our mission to help children in need,
while also reducing our monthly
expenses considerably!
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______________________________ To our newest families - Congratulations! Children recently adopted through Children at Heart's Kazakhstan program are... |
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_______________________________ January 2011: We are happy to announce that Children at Heart will now be working with birthmothers in NC to help find adoptive homes for their children. Families interested in adopting through this domestic program should contact us through the "contact" page of this site, or call Janice, the director of Children at Heart, at 910.763.4414 - or email CAHadoptions@aol.com. We are looking forward to supporting local birthmothers through the adoption process. ___________________________________ July 21, 2010: Today we were accredited in the country of Nepal! We hope this program will find homes for infants and toddlers, with single women and married couples. Unfortunately on August 6, 2010, the US Department of State suspended adoptions in Nepal. Please see our Nepal page for the official statement from the Department of State. We will update this website when we are ready for prospective adoptive families to begin preparing dossiers. __________________________________________ July 12, 2010: Today we received our accreditation to begin facilitating adoptions in Poland! We hope this program will find homes for older children, sibling groups, and infants with special needs. Please check the Poland page of this site for more details on this program. Contact us if you have questions regarding Poland adoptions, we are here to help! _______________________________________ Now check out "Children at Heart" on Facebook! Our Facebook page features many pictures of recently adopted children, as well as pictures from our annual picnic and fundraisers! We also update our page with information on upcoming events, as well as news on our adoption programs and completed adoptions. You can find us under "Children at Heart" - add us as a friend today! _______________________________________ Updates on our Kazakhstan adoption program: Notice from the Consulate General of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in NYC (where CAH files are submitted) May 2010: The Consulate General of the Republic of Kazakhstan in New York would like to inform that the Government of Kazakhstan continues to streamline and upgrade its international adoption system and to that end Kazakhstan has joined the Hague Convention on International Adoption. Having joined the Convention, the Republic of Kazakhstan, as prescribed, started the process of bringing its national legislation, including the Marriage and Family Code, in compliance with the Convention requirements. In this regard and to avoid any mistakes and confusion in the process of building the dossiers for prospective adoptive families due to the ongoing legislation reform, the Consulate General temporarily suspends the acceptance of dossiers for adoption until further announcement. The Consulate General of the Republic of Kazakhstan in New York apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause. Notice from the US Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Office of Children's Issues. October 2010: Kazakhstan will become a party to the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Convention) on November 1, 2010. Government of Kazakhstan stated it will not accept any new intercountry adoption dossiers until it completes adoption reforms, which is expected to be March 2011, at the earliest. We will post more information here when we have it - we are hopeful that the Consulate will accept dossiers sometime soon. All of the CAH families whose dossiers were sent to Kazakhstan in May 2010 have successfully completed their adoptions, and are now home with their beautiful children (none of our dossiers were returned from Kazakhstan!) - see above on this page for a list of children recently adopted through our Kazakhstan program. Please contact Janice, the director of Children at Heart, at 910.763.4414 if you have questions on when you should start working on your adoption in Kazakhstan. _______________________________________ |
