About OAC

Mission Statement

• Promote adoption as a positive option for children who need the security of a permanent and nurturing family,
• Promote the best interest of the child as the primary focus of all adoption practices and laws
• Promote a recognition of the rights, responsibilities and needs of all members of the adoption triad,
• Promote the use of licensed Child Placing Agencies for the delivery of adoption services, and
• Promote the development of quality standards for adoption practices within the legal, medical, social work, and mental health professions.
• How to file a complaint or grievance regarding adoption related providers

Code of Ethics of the Oklahoma Adoption Coalition

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We commit ourselves as individuals, professionals and as agencies to fulfill the ethical principles in this code.

We pledge to:

• Ensure that no adoptive child, birth family, adoptive family and adult adoptee is denied available services on the basis of race, color, national origin, religious affiliation, gender or disability;
• Support services to adoptive children, birth families, adoptive families and adult adoptees while recognizing that our primary responsibility is always the best interest of the child;
• Be an advocate on behalf of adoptive children, birth families, adoptive families, and adult adoptees;
• Support a full continuum of adoptive services, including post-adoption services;
• Involve as fully as possible the adoptive child, birth family, and adoptive family in all planning and decision making about services to be rendered;
• Endeavor to provide the most appropriate adoptive placement that will best meet the child's physical, emotional, developmental, and spiritual needs;
• Facilitate temporary foster care until an appropriate adoptive placement can be made;
• Intervene or seek alternative placements only when the birth family or adoptive family is unable to meet the needs of the child;
• Support permanency planning for children;
• Not participate in, condone, or be associated with dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation in the provision of adoption services;
• Respect the privacy of clients and hold in confidence all information obtained in the course of professional services, except where indicated by law;
• Promote research and education in the field of adoption to maintain the integrity of the profession; and
• Promote public awareness of adoption issues related to children, birth families, adoptive families, and adult adoptees.