Program Updates

 

We are anxiously awaiting news of our Russia accreditation. Families will be notified immediately upon our accreditation, at which time Program Updates will resume on this page.

 

July 25, 2007

Children's Hope received news of eight international adoption agencies, seven based in the U.S. and one in France, receiving their accreditation in Russia on Wednesday, July 4. The Russian Ministry of Education has listed eight additional accreditations as of July 19. Although Children's Hope was not one of the first accredited, we welcome this information and are excited the accreditation process has finally begun!

As the accreditation process proceeds, we will be notified of the timetable for the next batch of agencies to be accredited. New updates will be released as specific official information is received.

For those new to Children’s Hope or to Russian accreditation, the article “American Attitudes Exposed: Russian Re-accreditation Reveals Delinquent Post-Placement Report Problem” in this month’s issue of Adoption Today (p. 8-9) provides clear and concise information and background on the re-accreditation process currently underway. Click here to read the article online.

 

July 10, 2007

Russia Accreditation Process Proceeds

Children's Hope received news that eight international adoption agencies, seven based in the U.S. and one in France, received their accreditation in Russia on Wednesday, July 4. Although Children's Hope was not one of the first accredited, we welcome this information and are excited the accreditation process has finally begun!

As the accreditation process proceeds, we will be notified of the timetable for the next batch of agencies to be accredited. Over 115 agencies are registered as NGO's and are awaiting accreditation. New updates will be released as specific official information is received.

 

May 09, 2007

Russia Awaiting Accreditation

The Russia team continues to work with families waiting in the process while we await accreditation in Russia.

 

April 13, 2007

Children’s Hope wants to assure you that Russian adoptions continue.

We have it on the best authority: the Ministry of Education continues to work on processing the accreditation and delays are due to paperwork issues alone. There are no rumors circulating about a moratorium or for Russian adoptions to discontinue. We believe the accreditation issue will be resolved within the next several months allowing us to work in all of our nine current regions. Children’s Hope will begin working in two new regions as well, Perm and Krasnoyarsk.