Cradle of Hope Adoption Center
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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 |
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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Oct 07, 2018
Our social worker was amazing with our pre and post placement visits. She was so attentive to detail and we always felt like she was there to help us. We stay in contact with them and they will always be a part of our story!
Oct 04, 2018
We have been blessed with two beautiful daughters from China. We found Cradle to be VERY helpful, they saw us through to the end on both adoptions, and they educated us along the way. We had some special situations arise and Linda went above and beyond to get things resolved. We got check-up calls daily while we were in CHINA and after we got home. We still stay in touch and consider many of the staff to be friends! We are thankful for Cradle of Hope. The Palmer Family
Oct 03, 2018
Such a wonderful and caring organization. Their attention to detail was amazing. We were very lucky that cradle of hope was there to help both us and our daughter's birth mom on one of the most emotional days of our lives!
Nov 08, 2014
Great place to go for domestic and international adoption. Very professional and experienced people!