Family Focus Adoption Services
Family Focus Adoption Services
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About this organization
Mission
Family Focus Adoption Services ('Family Focus') was founded in 1987 by a group of New York and New Jersey adoptive parents, social workers, and other adoption advocates, out of the belief that every child who needs a permanent adoptive family, and every family looking to adopt, deserves timely, comprehensive adoption services. This not-for-profit agency, which is fully certified by New York State, defines itself as a high energy level multi-service non-traditional adoption agency. For federal income tax purposes, Family Focus is classified as a 501(c)(3) organization and is exempt under section 402 of the Internal Revenue Code and a similar provision of the New York State income tax laws.
About
The agency program includes a direct placement program that offers counseling and adoption information to pregnant women or new mothers and their families. Should the parents decide to place their baby for adoption through Family Focus, the agency provides the actual placement process and follow-up services, with particular sensitivity to the surrender dynamics. The Family Services Program offers local family evaluations and post-placement reports for families adopting internationally or interstate. Family Focus is Hague accredited and able to help families adopting from anywhere in the world. The Child Welfare Training Program offers the widely-known and well-respected training services of senior agency staff, as requested, to social work agencies and foster and adoptive parent organizations throughout the United States and Canada. Family Focus is regularly asked to present our forward-looking non-bureaucratic adoption philosophies and practices at major conferences in both countries. We have also provided a webinar for the national older child adoption effort of the Dave Thomas Foundation, known as Wendy's Wonderful Kids, and have done multi-day training in New York, Louisiana, and Massachusetts, as part of the certification on adoption competence given by the National Resource Center on Permanency and Family Connections, housed at the Hunter College School of Social Work. Family Focus provides training on more than twenty different topics dealing with contemporary adoption issues and realities, and is now developing its own fourteen-week certification training program for adoptive and potential adoptive families. The Waiting Child Program works to recruit potential adoptive families for the children in greatest need, the older foster children and youth who languish for far too many years in local foster care, and then effectuating successful adoptions for a lifetime. This program is the heart of Family Focus and represents the agency's mission. At a time when most of society still disregards the necessity for these young people to have permanent families before they age out of foster care, at eighteen or twenty-one, Family Focus has developed techniques that help children and families learn to live together, and then choose to be a permanent family. The agency's success rate with the adoptions of children up to age twenty is ninety-seven percent, compared with a national average of seventy-five percent. Most children placed are from New York State counties, but, to meet current needs, the agency has developed an internet assistance program for families who are adopting children from many other parts of the country. As part of its older child adoption work, Family Focus has also developed special ways of recognizing the family's commitment, and there are now agencies all over the United States who have begun to use these techniques. RAD! - The 'Relationships Are Decisions' program is a long-term pilot program. It was created for the most difficult children in the system to keep in adoptive homes. Each child is assigned one worker and each worker has only one child. The worker, future workers, they are called, teaches the children the familial and community concepts that they will need in order to succeed in families. They meet twice a month for about a year. At the end of the year the children are connected to pre-adoptive homes, where they visit for another year, while still meeting twice a month with their future worker. During the third year the children move in with the family, still seeing that same future worker, and move through a series of graduated steps to adoption finalization.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
According to the filing documents, the non-profit's mission is defined as “Family focus adoption services ("family focus") was founded in 1987 by a group of new york and new jersey adoptive parents, social workers, and other adoption advocates, out of the belef that every child who needs a permanent adoptive family, and every family looking to adopt, deserves timely, comprehensive adoption services. this not-for-profit agency, which is fully cerified by new york state, defines itself as high energy level multi-service non-traditional adoption agency.for federal income tax purposes, family focus is classified as a 501(c)(3) organization and is exempt under section 402 of the internal revenue code and a similar provision of the new york state income tax laws.”.
When referring to its tasks, they were referred to as: “Family focus adoption services ("family focus") was founded in 1987 by a group of new york and new jersey adoptive parents, social workers, and other adoption advocates, out of the belef that every child who needs a permanent adoptive family, and every family looking to adopt, deserves timely, comprehensive adoption services. this not-for-profit agency, which is fully cerified by new york state, defines itself as high energy level multi-service non-traditional adoption agency.for federal income tax purposes, family focus is classified as a 501(c)(3) organization and is exempt under section 402 of the internal revenue code and a similar provision of the new york state income tax laws.”.
- The non-profit's state of operation has been legally reported as NY.
- According to the latest filing, the non-profit's address in 2020 is 54-40 LITTLE NECK PARKWAY 4, LITTLE NECK, NY, 113622205.
- The total number of employees reported by the non-profit on their form for 2020 is 37.
- Does not operate a hospital.
- Does not operate a school.
- Does not collect art.
- Does not provide credit counseling.
- Does not have foreign activities.
- Is not a donor-advised fund.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are between $500,000 and $1,000,000+.
- Revenue is between $500,000 and $1,000,000+.
- Revenue less expenses is $23,333.
- The CEO compensation package within the organization is not determined through a thorough evaluation and endorsement by a neutral source.
- The organization has a written policy that describes how long it will retain documents.
- The organization has 14 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1987.
- The organization has a written policy that addresses conflicts of interest.
- The organization is required to file Schedule O.
- The organization pays $536,148 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $101 in fundraising expenses.
- The organization provides Form 990 to its governing body.
- The organization has minutes of its meetings.
- The organization has a written whistleblower policy.
- The organization's financial statements were reviewed by an accountant.