Team

Our daily team exists of 8 dynamic co-workers, each responsible for and specialized in specific parts of the adoption mediation work, which is complex and therefore requires special care and competences from our staff:

• Ann Loos, Executive Director
• Bart Neys, Responsible Intercountry Programs
• Sandra Van Dingenen, Social Worker
• Kathleen Poortmans, Social Worker and Co-worker Intercountry Programs
• Katja Verbeek, Sworn Translator and Youth Worker Road to Roots Program

Our Team’s Tasks

• Verification of suitability of prospective adoptive parents by means of intake conversations and informative sessions
• File preparations and assistance
• Preparation for inter-country adoption through seminars and informative meetings with adoptive and prospective adoptive parents;
• Ensuring representation of FIAC-Horizon and its applicants in the various countries of origin and its authorities;
• Counselling of prospective adoptive parents during the entire adoption process, before and after a placement
• Providing post-adoptive care and counselling, Road to Roots program
• Cooperation with central authorities, youth welfare and adoption workers and experts in Flanders, Belgium and abroad.