Hands Across The Water Inc

Adoption services, including state ward adoption, international adoption, and infant adoption services: state ward adoption matches children in foster care who are unable to return home with adoptive families including relatives of the child, non-relative foster parents, or a recruited adoptive family. International adoption primarily assists us citizen families seeking to adoption family members or unrelated children from program countries including mexico, dominican republic, bangladesh, bulgaria and azerbaijan. In 2024, hatw completed a total of 39 adoptions among three programs.

Behavioral health: hatw provides counseling services to children and families with special focus on trauma, grief and loss, foster care and adoption issues, and marital, parenting, and adjustment issues. Numerous insurance plans are accepted including several medicaid, hmos, as well as private pay clients. In 2024, 52 children and adults benefitted from behavioral health services at hatw.

New in 2024, hatw expanded into kinship services providing information, referrals, and support to kinship caregivers to improve outcomes for their families. In 2024, hatw served 53 kinship families.