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From this link: How to Find an LGBT-Friendly Adoption Agency | Advocate.com
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To get certified by HRC as LGBT-friendly, agencies work with the HRC Family Project and All Children-All Families Advisory Council members to evaluate and update their policies as needed, working toward 10 benchmarks of LGBT competence outlined in the Promising Practices Guide. When an agency achieves each of the 10 benchmarks, it is awarded the All Children-All Families Agency Seal of Recognition. Here are the 10 benchmarks:
1. The agency’s client nondiscrimination statement includes “sexual orientation.”
2. The agency’s client nondiscrimination statement includes “gender identity” and “gender expression.”
3. The agency’s employment nondiscrimination statement includes “sexual orientation.”
4. The agency’s employment nondiscrimination statement includes “gender identity.”
5. All agency employees receive the training required to work effectively and competently with LGBT clients.
6. The agency proactively educates and advocates for LGBT-inclusive and affirming practices among its organizational partners, collaborators, and contractors.
7. All agency-controlled forms and internal documents use inclusive language (e.g., “partner” instead of “spouse” or “parent 1” and “parent 2” rather than “mother” and “father”).
8. All external communications (website, printed materials and recruitment activities) explicitly reflect the agency’s commitment to working with LGBT individuals and families.
9. The agency includes standardized LGBT-specific language, examples and exercises in all family training and education activities (MAPP, PRIDE, etc.).
10. The agency has had placements/finalized adoptions with several LGBT foster or adoptive parents and/or has provided foster/adoption services to LGBT families within the past year.
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This could be a new industry and it looks like it is well underway. Entirely all-LGBT friendly adoption agencies as holding and contracting entities for all the at-risk and vulnerable orphans in the country. Pretty soon there won't even be a need for catholic charities to run this vital service to our country by and large. I can see LGBT outfits lining up to take this custodial position of children on as just another branch of their rainbow tree of activism.
Discuss.
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To get certified by HRC as LGBT-friendly, agencies work with the HRC Family Project and All Children-All Families Advisory Council members to evaluate and update their policies as needed, working toward 10 benchmarks of LGBT competence outlined in the Promising Practices Guide. When an agency achieves each of the 10 benchmarks, it is awarded the All Children-All Families Agency Seal of Recognition. Here are the 10 benchmarks:
1. The agency’s client nondiscrimination statement includes “sexual orientation.”
2. The agency’s client nondiscrimination statement includes “gender identity” and “gender expression.”
3. The agency’s employment nondiscrimination statement includes “sexual orientation.”
4. The agency’s employment nondiscrimination statement includes “gender identity.”
5. All agency employees receive the training required to work effectively and competently with LGBT clients.
6. The agency proactively educates and advocates for LGBT-inclusive and affirming practices among its organizational partners, collaborators, and contractors.
7. All agency-controlled forms and internal documents use inclusive language (e.g., “partner” instead of “spouse” or “parent 1” and “parent 2” rather than “mother” and “father”).
8. All external communications (website, printed materials and recruitment activities) explicitly reflect the agency’s commitment to working with LGBT individuals and families.
9. The agency includes standardized LGBT-specific language, examples and exercises in all family training and education activities (MAPP, PRIDE, etc.).
10. The agency has had placements/finalized adoptions with several LGBT foster or adoptive parents and/or has provided foster/adoption services to LGBT families within the past year.
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This could be a new industry and it looks like it is well underway. Entirely all-LGBT friendly adoption agencies as holding and contracting entities for all the at-risk and vulnerable orphans in the country. Pretty soon there won't even be a need for catholic charities to run this vital service to our country by and large. I can see LGBT outfits lining up to take this custodial position of children on as just another branch of their rainbow tree of activism.
Discuss.
