Spence-Chapin provides lifelong post-adoption support to all those connected to adoption, including adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents. Our services are here to foster healing, connection, and community at every stage of your journey.
We provide a warm and trusting space to work on a variety of challenges including grief & loss, relationship conflict, adoption, and attachment in children and adults.
Our children’s playgroups bring young adoptees and their families together to create friendships, build community, and have fun! Programs available for children ages 0-9.
Calling all teens and tweens! Our group mentorship programs bring young adoptee mentees together with adult adoptee mentors for sharing, frienship, and fun!Â
This virtual series for Adopted Persons meets monthly to discuss any and all issues related to adoption and beyond. Both our teen and adult Voices of Adoption are adoptee-led and adoptee-run spaces.Â
At Spence Chapin, we offer birth parents free counseling, support groups, workshops, events, and resources. Making an adoption plan is an act of courage that deserves ongoing support.Â
Spence-Chapin maintains thousands of records from its 110+ year history. We are also a repository for records for two other agencies and can assist clients who are unsure through which agency their adoption was planned.
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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