IAN can offer adoptions from different countries and locations. Different laws and regulations apply to each. Please select the country you are interested in from the right for additional information.
IAN will help guide you through the adoption process from beginning to end. With each step, we will direct you in completing a successful adoption to ultimately unite you and your child as a family!
IAN is here to help families with their adoption process from beginning to end. Here you will find information you may find useful in helping you with your adoption process, as well as tools to communicate with other IAN Families.
History of IAN
Established in 1999, International Adoption Net (IAN) is a licensed, full-service child placement agency and a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization in Centennial, Colorado in the United States of America. We are a Hague-accredited agency, and have been so since 2008. We are also an active member of the Joint Council on International Children’s Services, a membership based advocacy group working to ensure that orphaned and vulnerable children can live, grow, and flourish in a safe, permanent and loving family.
In fall of 1999 Joan Strauss and a colleague started International Adoption Net in a small church office in Denver in pursuit of the fulfillment of their dream of helping orphans around the world.
In the first few years, IAN concentrated on home study services and slowly built a client base, averaging about 20-30 adoptions each year.
By 2004, In addition to home study services, IAN had active adoption programs established in Guatemala, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, as well as birth parent counseling, domestic placement, post-adoption service and home study services. IAN also established its website in 2004: http://www.internationaladoption.net. IAN experienced a steady growth of clients over the next few years.
IAN continued to provide service to an ever-growing client base in 2006, and during this time period established its Ethiopia Program.
By 2007, IAN had experienced a significant jump in applications and adoptive families seeking placement assistance, providing service to over 100 adoptive families each year.
In 2008, IAN received its Hague-accreditation by the Colorado Department of Human Services, ranking it among a select group of adoption agencies nationwide, which operates with the highest ethical standards.
From 2009 to present, IAN continues to experience a growth in client base and service provision. Now the US office is staffed with six full-time staff members, three part-time staff members and a team of highly qualified contracted social workers.
As of September 2011, IAN has successfully placed more than 250 children in loving homes nationwide, from every region of the globe.
Mission Statement
International Adoption Net’s mission is to link orphaned children born outside the United States with the opportunity to be adopted into loving families that have demonstrated physical and emotional health and agree to comply with our policies and with governing laws. Our intent is to enable more families to form and expand through adoption. Our flexible menu of adoption-related services and country programs is tailored to meet a variety of financial requirements. We have helped families with successful adoptions since 1999