DENVER—A Colorado adoption agency that specialized in special-needs children said it is closing because donations are down and the economy has reduced the number of families seeking to adopt. ; The Denver Post reported Wednesday ( http://bit.ly/t9xgFo) the Denver-based nonprofit Adoption Alliance is turning over its 200 family clients to other agencies. ; “It’s, unfortunately, a sign of the times, just like many nonprofits,” said Tracey Blustein, executive director of the agency. “It’s difficult for us to sustain our operations.” ; Blustein said a 2005 change in rules for international adoption also reduced the number of adoptions because it added paperwork, travel and expenses.
South Korea’s government, Western countries and adoption agencies supplied 200,000 Korean children to parents overseas, despite evidence of questionable means, an AP investigation found.
About 250 families took the first steps toward adoption of the 790 children waiting in the state’s foster-care system after Saturday’s “Wait No More” event at New Life Church in Colorado Springs. Religious organizations traditionally help with adoptions, state officials said, but the 1,300-person turnout at the one-day event, sponsored by Focus on the Family and New Life, was unprecedented. It is two to three times the number of people who attend adoption orientations in the seven participating counties in one full year, said Dr. Sharen ...
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Lisa Novak, 48, is accused of taking more than $40,000 from clients for adoptions that didn’t come through, Boulder police said. ; Novak, a former member of the Erie board of trustees, ran the Claar Foundation in Boulder until it closed in December, said Sarah Huntley, a police spokeswoman. ; Two families have told police investigators that Novak failed to deliver on adoptions that were being arranged through a Guatemalan orphanage.
Lisa Novak, 48, is accused of taking more than $40,000 from clients for adoptions that didn’t come through, Boulder police said. ; Novak, a former member of the Erie Board of Trustees, ran the Claar Foundation in Boulder until it closed in December, said Sarah Huntley, a police spokeswoman. ; Two families have told police investigators that Novak failed to deliver on adoptions that were being arranged through a Guatemalan orphanage.
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Dozens of children went to court Thursday, turning their charm on black-robed Arapahoe County judges more accustomed to hosting somber defendants than smiling infants. It was “Adoption Day in Court” as the non-profit agency Adoption Options brought 28families and their newest members to Arapahoe County Courthouse where a pair of judges took steps to finalize their adoptions. Ella Lopez, a four-month-old with curly black hair bound in a white ribbon, sat with her parents and two brothers as her aunt, Jessica Lopez, 26, snapped pictures from ...