Are you a South Carolina family that has grown through international adoption, but you don’t feel that you can afford a South Carolina readoption at this time? Well, there’s an alternative in our state, something called a Domestication of Foreign Adoption. Although we recommend a readoption whenever a family can afford it, we’re also being [...]
This evening from 7 until 8:30 (Eastern), there is an online education course about Transracial and Transcultural Adoptions. This adoption course is offered as a webinar, which is a teleconference combined with web interface so that participants can see the presenter’s PowerPoint slides as she talks. The cost is $15 (free for Carolina Hope families). [...]
Announcement about the annual Guatoberfest, to be held in Myrtle Beach, SC, this October. All adoptive families are welcome. Check out their website. (more…)
Tuesday May 6, Carolina Hope is holding a free evening workshop on domestic and international adoptions. Our office is located in Greenville, SC. Please call ahead to register. (more…)
Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency is now accepting applications for its new Ethiopia Adoption Program. Although this international adoption program has taken longer than expected to be fully operational, we are very excited to now be helping Ethiopian orphans find homes with adoptive families in the United States.
Carolina Hope has achieved 1-year temporary Hague accreditation through the Council on Accreditation. This status permits Carolina Hope to conduct adoptions from all Hague countries and to do Hague-approved South Carolina adoption homestudies.
Carolina Hope is conducting a 1-hour transracial adoption education course on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. The cost is $15.
The course will be conducted online as a webinar, so participation will require an internet connection faster than dial-up. (Other than that, nothing is required. For more details, see the course page.)
This webinar is open [...]
The following is an informal book review by Claudia-Jacqueline Semar, M.Ed. She has granted us permission to reprint it here.
Ms. Semar is the Executive Director of International Child Foundation. She has worked in adoptions for more than 15 years, and as an adoptive mother, she has first-hand experience in the things she writes about.
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Carolina Hope is conducting a free 1-hour adoption home study education course tomorrow (April 15) at 7 p.m.
The course will be conducted online as a webinar, so participation will require an internet connection faster than dial-up. (No gas, no travel time: The perfect way to get an education!)
This webinar is open (and free) to all, [...]
As we celebrate our adoption agency’s 10th Anniversary, I’m posting brief introductions of the Carolina Hope staff. March 10 I told you a little about our Assistant Director, Lisa Prather. Today I would like you to meet our Director of Ministry Outreach, Dan Cruver. I’ve asked him a few questions, and here are his answers.
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Come hear Carolina Hope’s Dan Cruver at The Vine Community Church this Sunday. Here’s the announcement from our Workshops page:
Adoption Awareness Service
Sunday, March 30, 2008 (6pm)
Dan Cruver, Carolina Hope’s Ministry Outreach Director, who is an adoptive father, will be speaking at this special adoption service. Also, two birthmothers and an adult adoptee [...]
This morning I read a short post over at Riley Dad’s Weblog which reminded me that I’ve been meaning to post about adoption language issues.
One of the first things that struck me when I started working at Carolina Hope in 2005 was the lingo. I was told there were certain things I wasn’t allowed to [...]
As we celebrate our adoption agency’s 10th Anniversary, I’m posting brief introductions of the Carolina Hope staff. Last Friday I told you a little about our Director, Laura Godwin. Today I’d like you to meet our Assistant Director (and Director of International and Domestic Adoption Programs), Lisa Prather. I’ve asked her a few questions, and [...]
Over the weekend we received our first donations to specific needs at the Ethiopia Group Home. Check out the list of needed items to see what’s been given and what is still needed. And thanks to those who gave!
(You can watch video footage here of Ethiopian orphans who were visited by Carolina Hope’s Lisa Prather [...]
As we celebrate our 10th Anniversary as an adoption agency, I want to give you some brief introductions to the Carolina Hope staff. I’ll begin with our director, who is also the founder of the agency, Laura Beauvais-Godwin.
Laura’s involvement with adoption began at least as far back as her first adoption, about 20 years ago. [...]
Today I’m writing to recommend to you a recent children’s book about adoption by Andrea Stephens, Gifts To Each Other. Assistant Director Lisa Prather says that the book is “a very good resource for talking to children about adoption.”
At the end of the post I’ve included a few screenshots of pages (taken from Amazon’s preview [...]
This spring, Carolina Hope celebrates its 10-year anniversary! As part of the celebration, we are hosting an Easter Egg hunt for families whose lives have been touched by adoption. All children are welcome, whether they came into your family by adoption or birth. Here’s the announcement from Carolina Hope’s website:
Easter Egg Hunt at Carolina Hope
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Just a reminder that tomorrow evening (Tuesday, March 4) from 7 to 9 pm, Carolina Hope is conducting an informational workshop about domestic and international adoptions at our office in Greenville, SC.
Here’s the announcement from our workshops page:
Introducing Domestic and International Adoption
Tuesday, March 4, 2008 (7-9pm)
At this adoption workshop, Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency and [...]
From Carolina Hope’s Adoption Workshops and Education page:
Workshop on Ethiopia Adoptions with Wesenyelew Sahilemariam
Saturday, March 1, 2008 (9am - Noon)
Come hear Carolina Hope’s Ethiopia adoption coordinator, Wesenyelew Sahilemariam, this Saturday at Woodruff Road Presbyterian Church. The workshop is free of charge. Advance registration is appreciated but not required. Simply contact us to indicate your interest. [...]