DOCUMENT SAMPLES
such as forms, check list, policies,
contracts and examples are provided.
There are
approximately 24 Model Forms, 21 Examples
forms, 6 sample policies, 5 checklist and 3
sample contracts with sample attachments
that can be used with any contact.
The Hague Intercountry
Adoption Act of 2000 has been broken down
into 25 standards which agencies must
follow. We are including the first and
second standards as examples. Click
here to see Standard number one. Be
sure to scroll through all three pages. On
the first page, you will see the Standard
with a section number. Throughout the Full
Program, the Standard pages are all white.
The legal section number for this first
Standard is 96.30. Then the following page
gives the Compliance for the Standard.
Compliance pages are colored yellow
throughout the program. The third page gives
Compliance Supporting Detail, all color
coded blue throughout the program, and
explains in detail what your agency must
provide to comply with Section 96.30.
Section 96.30 requires the agency to have a
copy of their state license where the Hague
Accreditors can examine it. Our Full
Program Book Two has a place for the license
to be displayed.
Click
here to see Standard number two, Section
96.31. This section requires the agency to
explain their corporate structure. All
adoption agencies who plan to be considered
"agencies" by the Hague accreditors, must be
non-profit. The supporting document for
Section 96.31 is the agency's non-profit tax
status under section 501 (c) (3) of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986. Full
Program Book Two has a place where this
document will be displayed. For-profit
agencies will be named "Approved Persons" by
the Hague and compliance includes the
display of corporate licensing in Book Two.
These two examples serve
to show how simple it is for an agency to
follow Hague Standards using Hague
Accreditation service's Full Program. The
rest of the 25 Standards list and provide
necessary policies, contracts, quality
control teams, training manuals etc. Our
Full Program includes our copyrighted
materials and templates of all of these
documents, which are able to be used and
adapted, when necessary, by your agency.
IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
HAGUE LAW
The Hague Intercountry
Adoption Act has been made law. To think
that these requirements might be rescinded
or somehow made null is to avoid the
inevitable, that of accrediting your agency
in order to continue doing adoptions, or
even homestudies for adoptions in Hague
countries. It would take a Supreme Court
action to void the law that already has been
signed by the President of the U.S. There
are only a couple of minor sections of the
Hague law that may be revised; most of the
law is complete and ready to implement.
Will your agency be prepared?
To view a presentation of
the Hague Convention overview, click
here.
To view the actual Hague
law, click
here.
To view the current
regulations as they stand now, click
here.
