ADOPTION AGENCY DIRECTORS, AUTHORS, AND CONSULTANTS
Heino R. Erichsen, MA, and
Jean Nelson Erichsen, MA, LBSW
Heino R. Erichsen, MA, and Jean Nelson Erichsen, MA, LBSW, are adoptive parents, adoption agency founders/ directors, authors, consultants and have visited and contributed since 1981.
“The Erichsens stand among the leading pioneers of intercountry adoption who have witnessed and shaped intercountry adoption practice for the past 26 years.” –Tom Atwood, CEO, National Council for Adoption
Click here to listen to our Theme Song,
Butterflies in the Wind (3:45 min)
“We are guilty of many errors and many faults, but our worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting the fountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The child cannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, and his senses are being developed. To him we cannot answer ‘Tomorrow.’ His name is ‘Today.’ ”
- Gabriela Mistral, Chilean Nobel Prize Winning Poet
AWARD
For their outstanding contributions to the field of adoption, the Erichsens were inducted in the Adoption Hall of Fame at a ceremony during the National Council For Adoption Conference. Click here for their photos and captions.
AWARD
First Lady Lourdes Laborin de Bours, invited the Erichsens to present the international adoption process to welfare officials of sixty Mexican States at the Rights of the Child International Congress. Click here for their photos and captions.