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Friday, May 02, 2008

Contact: Marilyn Regier, Executive Director

Phone: (301) 664-9664

Email Address: mregier@barkerfoundation.org

The Barker Foundation has received notification that it has achieved Hague Accreditation through the Council on Accreditation (COA) as authorized by the U.S. Department of State, according to an announcement made to Marilyn Regier, Executive Director of the organization, which is located at 7979 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA.

Hague Accreditation attests The Barker Foundation is in substantial compliance with the Hague Convention Accreditation Standards. The Barker Foundation Hague Accreditation Expiration Date is 2/28/2013.

The Hague Convention is an international treaty created to ensure that intercountry adoptions are in the best interests of children and to prevent abduction, exploitation, sale, or trafficking of children. In 1994, the United States signed this treaty and agreed to develop regulations and a monitoring process for adoption service provides in the U.S. that worked with agencies in countries that signed into the Convention. For more information about the Hague Convention, including a full list of participating countries, please visit the Hague Convention on Private International Law’s website at www.hcch.net.

Congress passed The Intercountry Adoption Act (IAA) in October 2000, which serves as the implementing legislation for the United States. The IIA names the U.S. Department of State (State Department) as the Central Authority for the United States and the federal agency responsible for implementing the Convention. The IAA requires agencies and persons providing adoption services in cases involving Convention countries to be accredited or approved. In July 2006, the U.S. Department of State named COA as the only national accreditor for adoption service providers under the Hague Convention.

Founded in 1977, COA is an independent, not-for-profit accreditor of the full of the continuum of community-based behavioral health care and social service organizations. COA’s mission is to partner with human service organizations worldwide to improved service delivery outcomes by developing, applying and promoting accreditation standards. COA envisions excellence in the delivery of human services globally, resulting in the well-being of individuals, families and communities.

COA is endorsed by leading consumer and professional groups and by many regulatory bodies and managed care organizations. COA is sponsored by the Alliance for Children and Families, Association of Jewish Family and Children’s Agencies, Catholic Charities USA, Child Welfare League of America, Children’s Home Society of America, Employee Assistance Society of North America, Foster Family-based Treatment Association, Joint Council on International Children’s Services, Lutheran Services in America, National Council for Adoption, National Foundation for Credit Counseling, National Network for Youth, National Organization of State Associations for Children, Prevent Child Abuse America and Volunteers of America.

COA’s supporting endorsers include the following organizations: American Associations of Children’s Residential Centers, American Network of Community Options and Resources, Child Welfare League of Canada, EAGLE Program of the United Methodist Association, Mental Health Corporations of America, Inc., National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, National Association of Family-based Services, National Association of Psychiatric Treatment Centers for Children, National Association of Social Workers, National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, Inc., National Association of Therapeutic Wilderness Camps and National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare.
 

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