COA - Council On Accreditation

Intercountry Adoption Services identify and prepare adoptive families to provide lifelong care for orphan children from other countries. Services are provided to facilitate placement and adoption and to support adoptive families after the adoption is finalized.

Note: Organizations that only provide Home Study Services will complete: ICA 2, ICA 4, ICA 5, ICA 9, and ICA 10.

Organizations that only provide Post Placement Services will complete: ICA 2, ICA 4, ICA 5, ICA 7, ICA 9, and ICA 10.


	PURPOSE: Intercountry Adoption Services establish a permanent family for children who cannot be cared for or adopted in their country of origin and increase the well-being of adopted individuals and adoptive families.

RELATED FILES

ICA Private Template.doc
Intercountry Adoption (ICA) Service Profile.doc
NA Request.doc
ICA Reference List.pdf


	SERVICE One or more organization-operated programs or activities that have a common general objective and deploy the organization's material and human resources in a planned and systematic manner. An organization that publicly promotes or identifies itself in writing as offering a service, is licensed to deliver a service, assigns personnel and/or space to a service, or allocates financial resources to a service is considered to offer that service.


	FAMILY Two or more people who consider themselves family and who assume obligations, functions, and responsibilities generally essential to healthy family life. Child care and child socialization, income support, long-term care, and other caregiving are among the functions of family life. The definition of "family" will rest with an individual's indication of who plays a family member role, including current or former foster family, adoptive family, extended family members, fictive kin, or significant others. Organizations that believe family is the central constellation in a child's life, and that family attachments are of primary importance for human development, will strive to work with professional staff to develop a common understanding of "family."