Orlando is an active three-year-old living in a foster home in Colombia. He enjoys being outdoors and listening to stories and music. Orlando has been assessed to be on track developmentally and medically healthy and he is thriving in the care of his foster family.
Orlando has a complicated family history and has been in the child welfare system since shortly after being born.
More information about Orlando and his specific needs can be received after speaking with a member of our team
To learn more about Orlando, contact our Adoption Team at 212-400-8150 or email us at [email protected]
If you receive and accept the referral of Marcus through Spence-Chapin, you will benefit from the generosity of our new Briden Adoption Fund, which can offset the costs of adopting an international Waiting Child. The Briden Adoption Fund is made possible by the generosity of a Spence-Chapin family.
To learn more about a waiting child, enter the password below. To receive the password, please fill out our form, and we will follow up with you.
Elizabeth L. Smith, LMSW (she/her) is a compassionate, trauma-informed, and adoption-competent therapist. In her Adoptee Support Sessions, she provides non-clinical support services to adopted people. Her clinical training, narrative work, and living experience as an adopted person inform her perspective and practice. Elizabeth possesses deep awareness, empathy, and understanding of the shifting complexities of adoption, reunion, search, and the importance of being together in community.
Orlando is an active three-year-old living in a foster home in Colombia. He enjoys being outdoors and listening to stories and music. Orlando has been assessed to be on track developmentally and medically healthy and he is thriving in the care of his foster family.
Orlando has a complicated family history and has been in the child welfare system since shortly after being born.
More information about Orlando and his specific needs can be received after speaking with a member of our team
To learn more about Orlando, contact our Adoption Team at 212-400-8150 or email us at [email protected]
If you receive and accept the referral of Marcus through Spence-Chapin, you will benefit from the generosity of our new Briden Adoption Fund, which can offset the costs of adopting an international Waiting Child. The Briden Adoption Fund is made possible by the generosity of a Spence-Chapin family.
To learn more about a waiting child, enter the password below. To receive the password, please fill out our form, and we will follow up with you.
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]
