Heart to Heart Adoption

Heart to Heart Adoption is a FLS and NYS 501(c)3 licensed agency to process domestic and international adoptions in all 50 states for families of all backgrounds. We are members of the BBB, the Florida Adoption Council, JCICS on International Adoptions and we have full Hague Accreditation by the COA, Council on Accreditation. We have programs in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guatemala, Haiti, Ukraine, Nepal, a China Special Needs Program, Russia and the United States. We are waiting on our Nepal Licence but have our approval letter from Nepal. We are accepting applications. We work with highly ethical and well respected professionals in all our programs and countries. In country representatives in all our programs are bi-lingual. They are able to translate for our families so travel is much more relaxed and comfortable as well as accommodate their adoption needs. All staff members in our New York and Florida offices that work directly with families are adoptive parents or have years of experience in the adoption field. This ensures total understanding, compassion and sensitivity to the emotions and needs of our families as well as the details of preparing a dossier and the ability to provide accurate updates while the file is passing through the country courts. We are so happy to be able to announce our newest program: DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO! This is a great, low cost, good time frame program open to both married couples and single MEN and WOMEN. Available for adoption are infants to teens. Our Guatemala Program has been open for 8 years. At this time, Guatemala adoptions are suspended; however, it was our most popular program because children are in foster homes, escorts are available and if you choose to travel the pick up trip is short. The process usually takes an estimated 7 to 9 months once the dossier is in Guatemala. Our Ukraine Program has been open for almost 7 years. The children available are children with special needs, children 15 months to 4, other children and siblings of children a family has already adopted. Ukrainian children do live in orphanages. Families travel to Ukraine and visit ophanages and identify their child while they are in country. It takes up to 15 months to adopt a child from Ukraine. If you want to be on our Haiti Waiting List, please go to www.hearttoheartadoption.com and click on Adoption Programs, then Haiti. Fill out and return the form to me. Follow the directions. When the country re-opens its program, we will get in touch with you. Our Haiti Program places children from the two orphanages in Haiti. The children available are infants, toddlers and young children. They live in an orpahange that has many caregivers so the children are getting individual care. Visiting your child during the process is an option in Haiti and escorting is also available. The time frame is approximately 15 to 18 months. We have a US Domestic Program. This program offers mostly infants relinquished at birth; however, toddlers are occasionally available. Married couples can apply to adopt as well as singles. We work with a highly respected attorney in Florida that is an adopted child herself and has 2 adopted sons. She has more than 25 years experience in the adoption field. The time frame is 12 to 24 months or sooner. Heart to Heart can can now offer a partnered program with a licensed agency that is accredited in Russia. Russian children available are from 12 months to 15 years of age. Some may have minor correctable medical problems. The process will take from 12 months to 14 months. Our China Special Needs Program is a relatively new program with a great adoption time line. The networking agency has been accredited since 1997 and is sharing their program with H2H. Thousands of girls are available ranging in age from 9 months to pre-teens. Older girls can be considered special needs simply because of their age and that they are harder to match to a family. The children are very well taken care of and are tested for communicable diseases. The adoption process, unlike that of healthy children, is usually ONLY 3 to 7 months from submission of dossier. Heart to Heart offers home studies, clearances and post placement report services for Florida and New York State residents. If you are not a resident of these 2 states and are registered with a Heart to Heart adoption program, we will work with you to identify a social worker to prepare your home study. Arrangements can be made for home study family based training. In order to provide continued support to the children in the countries we have programs in, Heart to Heart has a "Waiting Heart's Club" that allows our families to send items that are useful to the children. Our couriers take these items to the country of your choice. We provide references. We have hundreds of families that we have processed adoptions for. Many of these families would be happy to share their experience through Heart to Heart with you. We have also launched a "Waiting Heart's Mentors Program." Families that have adopted through Heart to Heart will serve as mentors to new families who would like support during their process. Spanish speaking families welcome. We have a bi-lingual staff member.