Why A Helping Hand?
 Dear A Helping Hand,
We wanted to take the time and thank each one of you or all your hard work and devotion to all your Helping Hand Families and the orphans around the world.
We waited 3 long years for our little Jenna and you all were amazing to us the whole way. You all are truly angels sent from God to help with His work. We thank you from the bottoms of our hearts and we will always recommend A Helping Hand. Jenna is such a blessing and a perfect match to our family.
Scott, Kristie, Adam, Alex & Jenna Olges (adopted 6-29-08)
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Accreditation and Accountability
• We were among the first agencies to get Hague accredited with the Council on Accreditation. The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption 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.
• We are members of the National Council For Adoption, the National Christian Adoption Fellowship, and Kentucky Adoption Coalition. Memberships in these organizations ensure that we maintain high ethical standards and that we have access to the most current adoption information.
• A Helping Hand maintains a collective trade voice to speak on your behalf to elected government representatives at home and foreign adoption officials abroad.
• Our staff has been devoted to the well being of children around the world since 1995. Each year we facilitate approximately two hundred adoptions helping orphans find loving homes with families in the United States.
A Helping Hand Commitment to Children
• We believe that even the finest orphanages and foster homes with the best caregivers and most advanced equipment cannot replace the love of a parent. Therefore, we are committed to find forever families for orphaned children born in the US and abroad.
• We are committed to ministering to those orphans who, for various reasons, may not be adopted. We will share the love of Christ through the provision of humanitarian aid and support for caregivers.
A Helping Hand Commitment to Families
• We educate families about the adoption process.
• We fully disclose fees and costs associated with adoption.
• We assign a Family Advocate to each case to assist the family throughout their adoption journey.
• We provide families with regular updates on their adoption process as well as assistance with adoption recourses should the family experience any challenges.
• We promptly communicate with our families to answer any questions and address their concerns regarding the adoption process.
• We hold our families’ hand throughout the entire process starting with their application until they arrive home with their precious child.
Outreach
• For the benefit of those children who may not be placed, we conduct and maintain Christian humanitarian outreach programs. Examples of such programs include Ministry Team visits to orphanages to assist overworked caregivers, birth country foster care, hiring of additional orphanage workers, provision of needed medical operations, orphanage worker training, installation of playground equipment, and funding for surgeries for children.
AHH Statistics
Adoption Placements per Year
2009-93
2008-127
2007-190
2006-183
2005-187
2004-209
Disruptions
2009- 0
2008- 0
2007- 0
2006- 0
2005- 0
2004- 0
Dissolutions
2009- 0
2008- 0
2007- 1
2006- 0
2005- 1
2004- 1
Percentage of Placements Intact
2009- 100%
2008- 100%
2007- 99.5%
2006- 100%
2005- 99.5%
2004- 99.5%
2. The number of parents who apply to adopt on a yearly basis, based on data for the prior three calendar years: 188
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