HOLT INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES

Ii. Holt's u.s.-based programs include services to help children join loving, permanent families via international adoption as well as lifelong post-adoption services for youth and adult adoptees, adoptive families, birth parents and others whose lives have been touched by adoption. In 2024, holt's adoption services teams helped 181 children join adoptive families, 110 of them through international adoption, and 71 through domestic in-country adoption in countries around the world. Holt's professional adoption services include everything from advocacy for waiting children and counseling for prospective families to adoptive parent training, homestudy preparation, travel support and post-adoption reporting. Once home with their child, adoptive families may face challenges or need additional support as they navigate the complexity of parenting an adopted child, often transracially. Throughout their lives, adoptees may also need help or support, such as when initiating a birth family search or providing proof of citizenship to obtain a passport. Holt's post-adoption team also holds adoptee camps every summer and offers an adult adoptee mentorship program for youth adoptees. In 2024, holt's post-adoption team provided support and resources for 4,817 adoptees, adoptive families and birth families.in addition to adoption and post-adoption services, our u.s.-based services include the work our child sponsorship team does to support holt's more than 30,500 sponsors. Through monthly donations, holt child sponsors help provide everything orphaned and vulnerable children need to thrive - from nourishing food, safe shelter and education to the nurturing care of a family or devoted caregiver. Holt's sponsorship teams in the u.s. And around the world work together to provide regular updates for sponsors about their sponsored child, as well as information about how their donations are helping to meet the needs of children in holt's programs around the world.