Friday, February 27, 2009: China Waiting Program Announcement!
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The China "Waiting Child" program (formerly known as COP) is growing! In the next week or so, our public website will go live featuring approximately 30-40 new referrals of waiting children. These referrals include two dozen children that our very own Sarah Zuidema (Holland, MI branch) and Patty Jewel (IN branch) visited with last fall in Beijing during a special "Hope of Autumn" program. Bethany Christian Services was one of five agencies invited to meet with and assess children with special placement needs. There will also be other exclusive referrals of waiting children from various Provinces around China. These referrals are exclusive to Bethany and not on the shared portal. We obtained special permission from CCAA to photo-list and share the children's full referral (medical, social history, photos, etc.) in an effort to help identify qualified families to adopt these precious children.
Details of the new/exclusive program:
-BCS families with a LID will receive priority in matching
-If no BCS families, we can match children (when possible) with families not yet in the process but whom are willing to work quickly
-There may be a few exceptions for the more "severe referrals" for us to accept families that are LID with other agencies, on a case-by-case basis
-There may be a few exceptions for the more "severe referrals" for us to consider prospective adoptive families who do not fully meet the adoptive criteria of CCAA, on a case-by-case basis
-There may be a few exceptions for the more "severe referrals" for some fee reductions
When the webpage is ready to go live, we will make another announcement! Families will be able to review referrals online! Stay tuned. In the meanwhile, the children's referrals are listed in our internal COP Database, by referral. Our BCS China families will be able to access these referrals through their local social worker, prior to the referrals going live on our website. Workers, please share these children with your home study approved China families. External (non-BCS families) inquiries will be handled by our China Team here at BCS-I.
In addition to this new program, we continue to match the waiting children from our CCAA shared portal. This list of referrals is NOT public and we continue to review and match referrals to families in our current WC program on a daily basis. The portal program continues to be a success. Many waiting children have been matched to their forever families and have come home very quickly.
Please join us in prayer for these precious children.... who await their forever families!!!
Bookmark :
The China "Waiting Child" program (formerly known as COP) is growing! In the next week or so, our public website will go live featuring approximately 30-40 new referrals of waiting children. These referrals include two dozen children that our very own Sarah Zuidema (Holland, MI branch) and Patty Jewel (IN branch) visited with last fall in Beijing during a special "Hope of Autumn" program. Bethany Christian Services was one of five agencies invited to meet with and assess children with special placement needs. There will also be other exclusive referrals of waiting children from various Provinces around China. These referrals are exclusive to Bethany and not on the shared portal. We obtained special permission from CCAA to photo-list and share the children's full referral (medical, social history, photos, etc.) in an effort to help identify qualified families to adopt these precious children.
Details of the new/exclusive program:
-BCS families with a LID will receive priority in matching
-If no BCS families, we can match children (when possible) with families not yet in the process but whom are willing to work quickly
-There may be a few exceptions for the more "severe referrals" for us to accept families that are LID with other agencies, on a case-by-case basis
-There may be a few exceptions for the more "severe referrals" for us to consider prospective adoptive families who do not fully meet the adoptive criteria of CCAA, on a case-by-case basis
-There may be a few exceptions for the more "severe referrals" for some fee reductions
When the webpage is ready to go live, we will make another announcement! Families will be able to review referrals online! Stay tuned. In the meanwhile, the children's referrals are listed in our internal COP Database, by referral. Our BCS China families will be able to access these referrals through their local social worker, prior to the referrals going live on our website. Workers, please share these children with your home study approved China families. External (non-BCS families) inquiries will be handled by our China Team here at BCS-I.
In addition to this new program, we continue to match the waiting children from our CCAA shared portal. This list of referrals is NOT public and we continue to review and match referrals to families in our current WC program on a daily basis. The portal program continues to be a success. Many waiting children have been matched to their forever families and have come home very quickly.
Please join us in prayer for these precious children.... who await their forever families!!!
