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Hand In Hand Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1978 with the focus of providing permanence in children's lives. Our heartbeat is permanence in children's lives that have come out of hard places. We currently serve in two broader capacities, locally here in California providing limited adoption educational and consultation services and overseas in private family-style orphanages providing therapeutic education and consultation.
Change is a constant that we have had to operate within. In August of 2022, we made a hard decision to begin closing our private adoption program, the last adoption finalizing in January 2023. In August 2022, we started referring families to other agencies for adoption services, using the remaining resources to ensure the few families with children we had in process could be completed.
David Boschen, LMFT has been the agency director since 2006. He will continue working in the field of adoption, being employed by other agencies to serve families in the Bay Area including Santa Cruz and Monterey vicinities. He also will continue as an Adoption Service Providers (ASP) supporting Birth Parents in making the best decision for their child and themselves through advisement, counseling and emotional support. For more information you can email him at davidboschen.mft@gmail.com.
We would like you to have access to agencies that can be of support in your adoption journey. You can go to the California Association of Adoption Agencies ( https://www.california-adoptions.org/find-an-agency/agency-map-by-county ) to determine agencies licensed in your county. David Boschen would be available for a consultation for a personalized conversation in person or via Zoom on an hourly basis. There is so much information when searching the web, but it can save a significant amount of time for a short conversation to determine your best adoption plan.
We will continue as partners with orphanages in other countries by supporting their plans of permanence within their own children of hard places. You are invited to be partner in our global support of orphaned and abandoned children who are now members of family-style home orphanages located in Romania, Thailand, Africa and possibly the Ukraine. These rescued children now have active healing-parent's committed to raising them, often being the extended family for the child's lifetime. Your partnership can be a tax-deductible financial gift or possible service opportunities in one of these family village locations.
We want to thank the families and the agencies we have partnered with over these past 16 years. We are grateful to know that over 450 children were given a permanent home by adoption.
David Boschen, LMFT