What's New at Heartsent Adoption

INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS are experiencing many changes at this time. Adoptive parents have seen so many changes this past year with the adoption process in China, Guatemala and Russia, all countries where the process has historically been fairly predictable and relatively smooth. This is creating a situation where adoptive parents are looking at country choices they have not considered in the past. It is also opening possibilities and futures for children in countries that up to now have either not allowed adoptions, or where the adoption path may be 'less traveled' than in countries where the number of adoptable children has been larger. Please consider all of your options! Ask our staff about these roads less traveled, and you may find that you are directed to your child from an area of the world you never even knew about before.

DOMESTIC ADOPTION is a wonderful choice. Newborns are available from all states, and with the help of Heartsent you can process a domestic adoption typically within one year. We work with a variety of professionals to find the best match for your family, and work closely with you to personalize your adoption process. Heartsent provides the education, training and personal assistance to help you and your child(ren) come together as a family.

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COUNTRY NEWS: GUATEMALA continues to experience progress in its adoption processing, and we expect this country to open soon with an improved process. Heartsent staff plans to travel there within the next few months, to check on progress of the system of adoptions there. All of our cases have been completed now, our last family having just traveled to bring her beautiful child home. We will keep you posted on the official opening of Guatemala to new families.

In CHINA we still see a slowdown in the processing of child referrals for approved dossiers, now making child referrals at about 26-30 months following dossier receipt, unless a family qualifies for expedite service. Heartsent families have recently returned home with children, and others have received new child referrals. New families travel regularly, but less often than in the past, to meet and bring home their children! Remember that even though adoptions are taking longer to process, the government of China is solidly behind foreign adoption and we see no long term problems there. See the CCAA website for other adoption details about new regulations from May 1st of 2007: http://www.china-ccaa.org.

KYRGYZSTAN is our newest program of adoptions, and we are very excited about this program! Both boys and girls are available, of Turkish/Mongolian ancestry, with time frames of about 8-10 months before completion of an adoption. Heartsent staff will be traveling with the first families adopting from this central Asian country- check here for more details soon. This program accepts singles and couples, under 50.

KAZAKHSTAN also offers a wonderful choice for singles and couples who are wanting to adopt a boy or girl from 10 months old. Timeframes for adoption range between 10-12 months in this program. This program requires two trips, but an escort may be used in certain cases for the second trip.

HEARTSENT'S THAILAND PROGRAM has expanded to include waiting, special needs children as well as our healthy young toddlers. Families who are matched with a waiting child can expect much shorter time frames (about 6 months to completion). Thailand is a beautiful country, with a rich tradition of valuing children and family. We work closely with a small baby nursery in Bangkok, where the children are dearly loved and well cared for. We welcome couples-only inquiries about our beautiful Thai children. There are several families now processing, and many waiting children in Thailand.

VIETNAM ADOPTIONS are currently experiencing a slowdown, as the adoption process there undergoes revision and improvements. We will keep you posted about progress there. We hope to hear more in May-June.

TAIWAN offers families a wonderful alternative, as many families have recently begun their adoption process there. Timeframes for child referral vary from 16-24 months, followed by a 4-7 month time period for the court case to be completed after which families can travel. Staff and adoptive families traveled to Taiwan in early April to check on referred children and locate adoptable children. We have successfully expanded our Taiwan program, and now work in several locations throughout Taiwan. We love our beautiful children in wonderful nursery care. Couples only, under 50 preferred but older will be considered. Children are between 8-10 months when they come home. Families cannot choose gender in this program. Please inquire about this terrific program, as well as our new older child program, where there is currently a six to eight month wait at this time! Toddlers available now for matching and quicker travel times.

RUSSIA is our newest program offering, as we have arranged to network with a fully accredited child placement agency in Colorado. This program continues to offer children of all ages from several regions throughout the country. Contact us for details about this program, including time lines and available children.

USA! Heartsent is proud to offer our domestic program of adoptions. Newborns are available from any of our 50 states, typically placed in your home within one year. Heartsent is pleased to work with a 'short list' of very qualified professionals, and works hard to personalize your adoption process. Please inquire! We work with traditional and non-traditional families of all ages, and encourage singles to apply to our personalized program of domestic adoptions.

GENERAL: Heartsent is pleased to announce HEARTSENT LEARNING SOLUTIONS, a learning center developed exclusively for adopted children and their families. Seeing the many issues that face adopted children both personally and within the academic setting, Heartsent is now seeking donations and grants to launch our new program. Heartsent Learning Solutions will be the first of its kind, offering academic assessments and individualized learning programs for adopted children needing assistance with academic readiness and neuro/movement alignment. We have already begun providing services in our Orinda and Sacramento offices. Please attend our upcoming party at Leku Eder in Danville, Ca. on JUNE 7TH, 4pm-9pm, where 100% of the profits of all purchases will be donated to Heartsent Learning Solutions!! Call Val for details! WELCOME to Lianne, our new Senior Program Director at Heartsent, promoted to her new position in March!

TRIPS: Heartsent staff just returned from an important to Taiwan. This trip allowed us to identify adoptable children and assist with program planning and monitoring. We received two new baby referrals while there, with the promise of 4 more by the end of the month, and expanded our program significantly for the future! Staff will also be traveling to Kyrgyzstan and Ethiopia this year. Trips help us to stay informed about the process of adoption, so that we can better inform all of you for that time when you travel to meet your child. Thanks to those who have allowed us to travel with them to meet their children, we consider it an honor to be a part of such a miracle in your lives. Preview: WE HAVE NEW PROGRAMS opening soon- please inquire, as we are currently setting up programs in many different parts of the world.

PASADENA: welcomes our adopting families from Southern California! Please contact Program Director Jill, in our office near old town Pasadena at 454 S. Marengo Ave. Phone (626) 793-8333. NEXT ORIENTATION CLASS: April-May 2008! Come learn about our new programs of adoption. If you are interested in meeting with us for a personal interview prior to or after the orientation, just give us a call. If you are interested in beginning your adoption with us, please call Jill for an appointment. Once you have begun your adoption, you can participate in a wide range of interesting and useful classes on one of the many important topics of adoption.

SACRAMENTO: in our Fair Oaks office, Heartsent will have its next orientation class in early May. Please call our Program Director, Jennifer, or our Education Coordinator, Kim, if you would like to come and need details about our newest programs of adoption! Phone is 916-965-8881. Orientation classes will acquaint you with adoption issues and to Heartsent. If you are interested in beginning your adoption with us, please call anytime for a personal interview with Jennifer. For those of you in the process of adoption, look at our newest class schedule and decide which classes you would like to attend! Classes provide not only information and education, but a chance to network with other adoption families living in your community.

ORINDA: We will be moving our offices across town on July 1st. Still in Orinda, we will notify you soon about move details. Families in our office are beginning their adoptions from our newest programs in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, our expanded program in Taiwan, and current program of adoptions in Thailand. We are also welcoming our newest domestic adoption families! Orinda welcomes your visits to our office with those beautiful children- stop by and say hello! Please join us at our next general orientation class in April/May, This is a good opportunity to meet our adoptive families and see the beautiful children recently home. Be sure to call ahead to reserve your space with Lianne or Karen. As we begin expanding our programs this year, stay tuned for news of more adoption opportunities. Please feel free to ask about coming to a personal interview with Val for more information.

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Through our financial assistance program, HEARTSENT AID INTERNATIONAL continues to support projects in Central Vietnam, Ethiopia and Guatemala. Heartsent also provides aid to women and children in China, Thailand and Taiwan. Call us if you are interested in helping, or learning more about our aid and sponsorship programs.

Through the generosity of one of our adoptive families, we offer LIFE FOUNDATION GRANTS at Heartsent, which assist those families needing financial assistance with their adoption. Please contact us for further information if you desire such assistance, and have looked elsewhere for funding to no avail. Priority is given to families wishing to adopt older children, those with special needs and sibling groups. WE ENCOURAGE YOUR APPLICATION!

All individuals and families are invited to submit articles, items of interest, and inquiries to Heartsent for our website. Let us know what you have found useful and we can share your information with others.

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	INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS are experiencing many changes at this time. Adoptive parents have seen so many changes this past year with the adoption process in China, Guatemala and Russia, all countries where the process has historically been fairly predictable and relatively smooth. This is creating a situation where adoptive parents are looking at country choices they have not considered in the past. It is also opening possibilities and futures for children in countries that up to now have either not allowed adoptions, or where the adoption path may be 'less traveled' than in countries where the number of adoptable children has been larger. Please consider all of your options! Ask our staff about these roads less traveled, and you may find that you are directed to your child from an area of the world you never even knew about before. DOMESTIC ADOPTION is a wonderful choice. Newborns are available from all states, and with the help of Heartsent you can process a domestic adoption typically within one year. We work with a variety of professionals to find the best match for your family, and work closely with you to personalize your adoption process. Heartsent provides the education, training and personal assistance to help you and your child(ren) come together as a family. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ COUNTRY NEWS: GUATEMALA continues to experience progress in its adoption processing, and we expect this country to open soon with an improved process. Heartsent staff plans to travel there within the next few months, to check on progress of the system of adoptions there. All of our cases have been completed now, our last family having just traveled to bring her beautiful child home. We will keep you posted on the official opening of Guatemala to new families. In CHINA we still see a slowdown in the processing of child referrals for approved dossiers, now making child referrals at about 26-30 months following dossier receipt, unless a family qualifies for expedite service. Heartsent families have recently returned home with children, and others have received new child referrals. New families travel regularly, but less often than in the past, to meet and bring home their children! Remember that even though adoptions are taking longer to process, the government of China is solidly behind foreign adoption and we see no long term problems there. See the CCAA website for other adoption details about new regulations from May 1st of 2007: http://www.china-ccaa.org. KYRGYZSTAN is our newest program of adoptions, and we are very excited about this program! Both boys and girls are available, of Turkish/Mongolian ancestry, with time frames of about 8-10 months before completion of an adoption. Heartsent staff will be traveling with the first families adopting from this central Asian country- check here for more details soon. This program accepts singles and couples, under 50. KAZAKHSTAN also offers a wonderful choice for singles and couples who are wanting to adopt a boy or girl from 10 months old. Timeframes for adoption range between 10-12 months in this program. This program requires two trips, but an escort may be used in certain cases for the second trip. HEARTSENT'S THAILAND PROGRAM has expanded to include waiting, special needs children as well as our healthy young toddlers. Families who are matched with a waiting child can expect much shorter time frames (about 6 months to completion). Thailand is a beautiful country, with a rich tradition of valuing children and family. We work closely with a small baby nursery in Bangkok, where the children are dearly loved and well cared for. We welcome couples-only inquiries about our beautiful Thai children. There are several families now processing, and many waiting children in Thailand. VIETNAM ADOPTIONS are currently experiencing a slowdown, as the adoption process there undergoes revision and improvements. We will keep you posted about progress there. We hope to hear more in May-June. TAIWAN offers families a wonderful alternative, as many families have recently begun their adoption process there. Timeframes for child referral vary from 16-24 months, followed by a 4-7 month time period for the court case to be completed after which families can travel. Staff and adoptive families traveled to Taiwan in early April to check on referred children and locate adoptable children. We have successfully expanded our Taiwan program, and now work in several locations throughout Taiwan. We love our beautiful children in wonderful nursery care. Couples only, under 50 preferred but older will be considered. Children are between 8-10 months when they come home. Families cannot choose gender in this program. Please inquire about this terrific program, as well as our new older child program, where there is currently a six to eight month wait at this time! Toddlers available now for matching and quicker travel times. RUSSIA is our newest program offering, as we have arranged to network with a fully accredited child placement agency in Colorado. This program continues to offer children of all ages from several regions throughout the country. Contact us for details about this program, including time lines and available children. USA! Heartsent is proud to offer our domestic program of adoptions. Newborns are available from any of our 50 states, typically placed in your home within one year. Heartsent is pleased to work with a 'short list' of very qualified professionals, and works hard to personalize your adoption process. Please inquire! We work with traditional and non-traditional families of all ages, and encourage singles to apply to our personalized program of domestic adoptions. HEARTSENT OFFICE NEWS: GENERAL: Heartsent is pleased to announce HEARTSENT LEARNING SOLUTIONS, a learning center developed exclusively for adopted children and their families. Seeing the many issues that face adopted children both personally and within the academic setting, Heartsent is now seeking donations and grants to launch our new program. Heartsent Learning Solutions will be the first of its kind, offering academic assessments and individualized learning programs for adopted children needing assistance with academic readiness and neuro/movement alignment. We have already begun providing services in our Orinda and Sacramento offices. Please attend our upcoming party at Leku Eder in Danville, Ca. on JUNE 7TH, 4pm-9pm, where 100% of the profits of all purchases will be donated to Heartsent Learning Solutions!! Call Val for details! WELCOME to Lianne, our new Senior Program Director at Heartsent, promoted to her new position in March! TRIPS: Heartsent staff just returned from an important to Taiwan. This trip allowed us to identify adoptable children and assist with program planning and monitoring. We received two new baby referrals while there, with the promise of 4 more by the end of the month, and expanded our program significantly for the future! Staff will also be traveling to Kyrgyzstan and Ethiopia this year. Trips help us to stay informed about the process of adoption, so that we can better inform all of you for that time when you travel to meet your child. Thanks to those who have allowed us to travel with them to meet their children, we consider it an honor to be a part of such a miracle in your lives. Preview: WE HAVE NEW PROGRAMS opening soon- please inquire, as we are currently setting up programs in many different parts of the world. PASADENA: welcomes our adopting families from Southern California! Please contact Program Director Jill, in our office near old town Pasadena at 454 S. Marengo Ave. Phone (626) 793-8333. NEXT ORIENTATION CLASS: April-May 2008! Come learn about our new programs of adoption. If you are interested in meeting with us for a personal interview prior to or after the orientation, just give us a call. If you are interested in beginning your adoption with us, please call Jill for an appointment. Once you have begun your adoption, you can participate in a wide range of interesting and useful classes on one of the many important topics of adoption. SACRAMENTO: in our Fair Oaks office, Heartsent will have its next orientation class in early May. Please call our Program Director, Jennifer, or our Education Coordinator, Kim, if you would like to come and need details about our newest programs of adoption! Phone is 916-965-8881. Orientation classes will acquaint you with adoption issues and to Heartsent. If you are interested in beginning your adoption with us, please call anytime for a personal interview with Jennifer. For those of you in the process of adoption, look at our newest class schedule and decide which classes you would like to attend! Classes provide not only information and education, but a chance to network with other adoption families living in your community. ORINDA: We will be moving our offices across town on July 1st. Still in Orinda, we will notify you soon about move details. Families in our office are beginning their adoptions from our newest programs in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, our expanded program in Taiwan, and current program of adoptions in Thailand. We are also welcoming our newest domestic adoption families! Orinda welcomes your visits to our office with those beautiful children- stop by and say hello! Please join us at our next general orientation class in April/May, This is a good opportunity to meet our adoptive families and see the beautiful children recently home. Be sure to call ahead to reserve your space with Lianne or Karen. As we begin expanding our programs this year, stay tuned for news of more adoption opportunities. Please feel free to ask about coming to a personal interview with Val for more information. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________ Through our financial assistance program, HEARTSENT AID INTERNATIONAL continues to support projects in Central Vietnam, Ethiopia and Guatemala. Heartsent also provides aid to women and children in China, Thailand and Taiwan. Call us if you are interested in helping, or learning more about our aid and sponsorship programs. Through the generosity of one of our adoptive families, we offer LIFE FOUNDATION GRANTS at Heartsent, which assist those families needing financial assistance with their adoption. Please contact us for further information if you desire such assistance, and have looked elsewhere for funding to no avail. Priority is given to families wishing to adopt older children, those with special needs and sibling groups. WE ENCOURAGE YOUR APPLICATION! All individuals and families are invited to submit articles, items of interest, and inquiries to Heartsent for our website. Let us know what you have found useful and we can share your information with others.