Spence-Chapin Adoption Services

Every child deserves a family. We are committed to lowering barriers in the adoption system for every parent seeking a child, and children most in need. www.spence-chapin.org

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We want to see your family photos! Enter for a chance to win! #MemorialDayWeekend #familyphoto #contest #SpenceChapin

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Come and kick off #summer with Spence-Chapin's Young Leadership Committee! June 18th from 6-9pm at The Malt House http://ow.ly/NfMkU #fundraiser #SCYLC

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Will you share your family photos with us? We look forward to seeing them! #photocontest #memorialday #SpenceChapin

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Our Adoption and Modern Family Center celebrared our social work interns, as this is their last week with us! Thank you for all your hard work!

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Happy to give our partners in South Africa, Jo'burg Child Welfare some much needed IT help. #payitforward #donatetoJoburg

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Beth, Spence-Chapin Associste Director of Adoption Services and Clinical Training presented at the Young Child Expo & Conference on creating adoption-positive environments #youngchildexpo #adoption

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Happy Earth Day! #earthday #reducereuserestore #earthday2015

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Mentorship Adoption Day Potluck!

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Family Fun Day was a blast! Thank you Friends in Adoption for joining us! #ModernFamilyCenter #SpenceChapin

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It's clinic day here at Spence-Chapin! Take a look at these cuties! A big heartfelt thank you to our incredible Interim Care Providers for taking such great care of them! #InterimCare #SpenceChapin #babies

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It's ‪#‎NationalVolunteerWeek! For over 100 years, Spence-Chapin has depended on the talents of our volunteers. To all volunteers, past and present, we thank you for making our work possible! ‪#‎SpenceChapin‪ #‎volunteers ‪#‎volunteerappreciation

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Happy Easter! Share your egg-cellent eggs with us! #eggshare #SpenceChapin

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Spence-Chapin and our Modern Family Center are lighting it up blue in honor of #worldautismawarenessday! Practice love, tolerance, and kindness to everyone! #LIUB #autism #awareness

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It's clinic day at Spence-Chapin! Can you handle the cuteness? #adoption #cuteness #babies #socute

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Educator, women’s and civil rights advocate, adoption pioneer and civic leader Clara B. Spence (1862-1923) is an important, overlooked woman who was a major player in the political, educational, business and social arenas in Gilded Age New York. She was a contemporary of some of the most famous women in American history, including Helen Keller and Edith Wharton, both of whom she knew personally. Yet, it is rare for Clara to show up on lists of notable American women.

Even more surprising is the fact that Clara lived her life as she chose: an unmarried woman who lived openly with another woman and their children for her entire adult life. Clara and her partner and fellow educator, Charlotte Baker, adopted four children, making them a century ago one of the first single-sex adoptive families.

Clara was indeed a woman ahead of her time. Born into a middle-class family in Albany, New York in 1862, by the time she was 30 she had gotten a degree in oratory from Boston University, gone to London to study Shakespeare, played leading ladies at the Madison Square Theater in New York City, and started the school for girls on East 91st Street in New York City that still bears her name, as well as the century-old adoption agency Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children. #womenshistorymonth #LizTitus #msmagazine

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Adoption runs deep and doesn’t stop at the adoptee – it goes beyond them. I’m not an adoptee, but I have gone through similar experiences. I want to really emphasize the word similar because I will never be able to understand an adoptee because I’m not an adoptee, but I am a child of an adoptee...

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We're at Tribeca Rooftop measuring and planning for our #ModernFamilyBall !! #adoption #SpenceChapin MFB www.modernfamilyball.org