Cradle of Hope Adoption Center
Contact Information
1629 K Street NW
Suite 317
Washington, DC 20006
United States
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Suite 317
Washington, DC 20006
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | 9:30 AM-3:30 PM |
| Tuesday | 9:30 AM-3:30 PM |
| Wednesday | 9:30 AM-3:30 PM |
| Thursday | 9:30 AM-3:30 PM |
| Friday | Closed |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
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Cradle Of Hope Adoptions offers counseling and support services for expectant mothers.
I would like to offer a warm welcome from all of us at Cradle of Hope and tell you about our work helping children and families. My husband and I adopted our son in Virginia and our daughter from Romania in the late 1980s. I am an attorney by training and after our family adopted, many others asked for assistance. As a result, several other adoptive parents and I founded Cradle of Hope in 1990.
Cradle of Hope has placed more than 3,500 orphaned children from the U.S., Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Republic of Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ghana, Guatemala, and China with loving adoptive parents. Currently, we have active programs in Liberia, China and Kazakhstan, where we are especially proud of our commitment to finding homes for older children and those with special needs. We also assist families who have completed adoptions in Nigeria with the immigration process so their new son or daughter can come home to the US.
Our domestic adoption program began in 2009 and has been growing ever since. We are expanding our efforts to help more women facing unplanned pregnancies to consider adoption and more U.S. families who want to adopt locally. We provide resources and support for all parties to the adoption, before, during, and after the adoption is completed. We strive to ensure that birth parents and adoptive parents are well prepared for and comfortable with the adoption process.
Having personally experienced a domestic agency adoption and an independent international adoption, I can truly appreciate the support and knowledge that adoption professionals provide. The adoption process can be an emotional and procedural roller coaster. We have an excellent staff whose trademarks are competence, compassion, responsiveness, and solid ethics. Your Cradle of Hope team will guide you through each step of your adoption and will be available to support you throughout the adoption process and after.
Thank you for your interest in Cradle of Hope. We look forward to the opportunity of working with you. I encourage you to contact us to discuss how we can find a wonderful home for your child or help bring your son or daughter home to you.
Services and information
- Adoption
Requirements to become a foster parent
Because there aren't enough foster parents in the District of Columbia, many foster kids end up living in nearby Maryland. However, D.C. has its own minimum requirements for licensing foster parents. Parents for District foster children need must:
- Be at least 21 years old
- Prove financial resources to support a child
- Rent or own a home
- Show you are healthy enough to care for a child
- Provide enough space in the house for each foster child
- Complete 30 hours of training
- Pass a Home Study
There is no minimum parenting experience required. Foster parents in the District of Columbia can be single or married, with or without biological children at home. In fact, licensed homes are often a mix of biological and foster or adopted children.
You can work outside the home or be a stay-at-home parent. To help offset the costs of childcare, foster families receive assistance for every foster child in the home.
Ratings and Reviews
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Mar 22, 2023
They are very poor with international adoptions and I think they are more of a self styled “strong female group” than a group doing a good job. It’s a feminist group with no male involvement and leadership . Success rate is very poor and they don’t know when to say they can’t because they need the money to run their “female is strong mindset business”. Just be careful when dealing with them. Talk to their lawyer if you have one. I lost 13000 dollars already through them
Jan 09, 2023
We did not have the luck of other families, we decided to adopt a girl from China, but thanks to the ineptitude of the social worker and the fact that the agency did not want to help us, we could not have her, she lost the opportunity to have a family and we lost the opportunity to have her, if you don't offer them money they won't help you, that's why we lost faith in that agency and we don't believe in them anymore.
Calafia
Mar 01, 2022
Very helpful with providing information when asked.
Jan 27, 2020
Our family had a great experience with Cradle of Hope! Chris is so supportive! He called almost every day that we were in China, making sure all was going as planned. When talking to other families in China, they did not receive the same level of support that we received from CHAC. Great place!
Nov 08, 2019
Excellent adoption experience with Cradle of Hope! The staff was amazing: very personable and caring, quick to respond and help, very efficient and organized when it came to all the paperwork and extremely helpful, available and on top of all going on while traveling and in country for our international adoption as well as when we were home. You can definitely tell they care about you and the child you are adopting! Would highly recommend adopting through this agency!!