Harmony Adoptions featured in Adoption Today magazine
February 8, 2011 – Our efforts to provide meaningful support to adoptive families continue to gain attention. Adoption Today magazine featured Harmony’s support programs and success in the February 2011 issue.
A copy of the article (PDF file), Supporting Families, Supporting Success, by Kim Phagan-Hansel is available for you to read.
Information about Adoption Today magazine is available at adoptiontoday.com
Keeping The Promise – Over the last two decades, our nation has seen steep increases in the number of adoptions from foster care in the United States and from orphanages abroad…Now the paradigm has to shift, and our priority must be not only to achieve permanency, but also to assure that adoptive parents receive the supports they need to raise their children to healthy adulthood. (99 pages)
Keeping The Promise Executive Summary – Executive Summary of Keeping The Promise (7 pages)
A look at post-adoption services – Knox News 12-18-10 – Whether a child is adopted through a private domestic adoption, internationally, or through the child welfare system, post-adoption services provide instruction, encouragement and, perhaps most importantly, support for not only the child, but the entire family.
Camp Montvale – Daily Times – A Maryville-based adoption agency is seeking to purchase the former Camp Montvale property off Montvale Road. Harmony Adoptions of Tennessee has reached a tentative agreement with Knoxville auctioneer Sam Furrow, who foreclosed on the property in 2009 after buying out the debt of a financially-struggling development group, to possibly buy the camp. The adoption agency plans to rename the property the “Montvale Retreat Center.” It will be used to provide therapeutic activities after school and during the summer to adopted children in East Tennessee, according to the Harmony Adoptions website. It will also develop culture camps for internationally adopted children, host trainings for child welfare and clinical professionals and schedule events throughout the year that open the Montvale Retreat Center to community use.
Preserve Montvale – Owner wants mountain camp preserved, enjoyed. Furrow, the chairman of Furrow Auction Co., was a counselor at the camp for five summers during his youth, and said his goal is to find a user that recognizes its value, can afford to buy it and has the fundraising resources to take advantage of the facilities that are already there.
