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About Dillon Southwest

Business Structure and Organization

Dillon Southwest is an Arizona non-profit corporation operating for charitable purposes within the meaning of Section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue code and ARS § 43-1201 (4).

The Articles of Incorporation provide for a Board of Directors to conduct its business and affairs. The Board of Directors is made up of four elected members from the community and the executive director, who is an ex officio member. The Board meets on a regular basis to review the agency's programs and financial statements. On a yearly basis it develops and approves short and long term goals and approves the annual budget.

Licensing

Dillon Southwest holds both adoption agency and child-placing agency licenses issued by the Arizona Department of Economic Security.

Accreditation

Dillon Southwest is accredited by the Council on Accreditation. COA accreditation attests that an organization meets the highest national standards and is delivering the best quality services to the community it serves.  Dillon Southwest is proud to join COA's Community of Excellence which includes more that 1,000 private and public organizations that serve over 6,000,000 children, individuals, and families in the United States and Canada.

COA's mission "promotes best practice standards; champions quality services for children, youth, and families; and advocates for the value of accreditation."  The accreditation process involves an in-depth examination of the organization's compliance with best practice standards.  The process includes a review of organizational standards including human resources, financial and risk management and continuous quality improvement as well as thirty-nine service standards.

We are extremely proud to be a member of COA's Community of Excellence.

Hague Accreditation

On February 29, 2008, the U.S. Department of State and the Council on Accreditation announced that Dillon Southwest was among the first group of agencies to receive Hague Accreditation. We are extremely proud of this achievement.

Affiliations

DSW is a member of and subscribes to the Guidelines and Standards of Practice established by Joint Council on International Children's Services.

Additional Information

Pictures:

All children whose pictures appear on this website are children who are already in families and are displayed with their family's permission. If a child in need of a home is placed on the website, that child will be clearly identified as a child who is available for adoption.

Statistics:

Upon request, DSW will disclose the following information for the previous three calendar years:

• The total number of adoption placements per year
• The number of placements that remain intact
• The number of disruptions for that period
• The number of families who applied to adopt each year
• The current number of waiting children eligible for adoption