Welcome to Spence-Chapin’s international adoption programs! We look forward to supporting you as you grow your family through intercountry adoption. We will guide you through each step of the process and provide ongoing training throughout your pre-adoption experience so that you can be as prepared as possible for parenting through intercountry adoption.
In order to ensure that we provide you with relevant program information as well as a description of the common needs of children awaiting adoption, we require that families attend an introductory webinar for the country they choose to apply for. If you have not yet attended a webinar, please sign up via our events calendar. If none of the times work for your schedule, please reach out to our team at [email protected] and we will send you a webinar recording.
If you are interested in our kinship and kinship+ programs, you are not required to attend a webinar and can proceed with the application.
Please select the appropriate application below based on the state where you reside.
This application is for those living outside of New York who would like to apply to a referral-based program (meaning you will be matched with a child) in one of the following programs: Colombia, Costa Rica, the Eastern Caribbean, Ghana, or South Africa.
This application is for those outside of New York who would like to apply to a kinship/kinship+ program (meaning you have already identified a child) in one of the following countries: Ghana, Jamaica, or one of the following Eastern Caribbean Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, or Trinidad and Tobago.
This application is for those living in New York who would like to apply to a referral-based program (meaning you will be matched with a child) in one of the following programs: Colombia, Costa Rica, the Eastern Caribbean, Ghana, or South Africa.
This application is for those living in New York who would like to apply to a kinship/kinship+ program (meaning you have already identified a child) in one of the following countries: Ghana, Jamaica, or one of the following Eastern Caribbean Countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, or Trinidad and Tobago.
Spence-Chapin has partnered with the experts at Your Adoption Finance Coach to provide our families with free access to experts, tools and content that can take the worry out of financing your adoption. This service is available at no additional cost to families. Free financial coaching is available to families once an application has been received and approved for one of our adoption programs, including our domestic and international home study services! Contact us to learn more.
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.
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]
