ABOUT US

The Oklahoma Adoption Coalition is a statewide non-profit organization of adoption agencies, professionals, and individuals dedicated to improving adoption services and promoting adoption as a positive option for children who need the security of a permanent and nurturing family.

MISSION STATEMENT

  • Promote adoption as a positive option for children who need the security of a permanent and nurturing family,
  • Promote the best interest of the child as the primary focus of all adoption practices and laws
  • Promote a recognition of the rights, responsibilities and needs of all members of the adoption triad,
  • Promote the use of licensed Child Placing Agencies for the delivery of adoption services, and
  • Promote the development of quality standards for adoption practices within the legal, medical, social work, and mental health professions

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WE PLEDGE TO:

  • Ensure that no adoptive child, birth family, adoptive family and adult adoptee is denied available services on the basis of race, color, national origin, religious affiliation, gender or disability;
  • Support services to adoptive children, birth families, adoptive families and adult adoptees while recognizing that our primary responsibility is always the best interest of the child;
  • Be an advocate on behalf of adoptive children, birth families, adoptive families, and adult adoptees;
  • Support a full continuum of adoptive services, including post-adoption services;
  • Involve as fully as possible the adoptive child, birth family, and adoptive family in all planning and decision making about services to be rendered;
  • Endeavor to provide the most appropriate adoptive placement that will best meet the child’s physical, emotional, developmental, and spiritual needs;
  • Facilitate temporary foster care until an appropriate adoptive placement can be made;
  • Intervene or seek alternative placements only when the birth family or adoptive family is unable to meet the needs of the child;
  • Support permanency planning for children;
  • Not participate in, condone, or be associated with dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation in the provision of adoption services;
  • Respect the privacy of clients and hold in confidence all information obtained in the course of professional services, except where indicated by law;
  • Promote research and education in the field of adoption to maintain the integrity of the profession; and
  • Promote public awareness of adoption issues related to children, birth families, adoptive families, and adult adoptees.