Resources for Adopting Parents

Thinking about adoption? Here’s where to start.

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Michele Katz elements_colors2.jpg — Adoption Learning Partners

Preparation resources for adopting parents

The Adoption Doc, LLC
Dr. Sara Silvestri

Help for families during the pre-adoptive phase and with post-adoption parenting and care for their children.
sara.silvestri.md@gmail.com
724-622-6543

Michele Katz elements_colors4.jpg — Positive adoption language

List of terms currently used when talking about adoption

RG Adoption Consulting

RG Adoption Consulting is here to hold your hand through every step of the domestic adoption process . With their proven (pinky swear) 4-step Adoption Roadmap℠, the team’s goal is to help you bring your baby home in less than one year.

PairTree

Connecting expectant moms and adopting families to the adoption professionals and services they need to healthily navigate private adoption

Paula Weeks

Open Adoption Coach, Author, Speaker

Already in the process of adopting and feeling overwhelmed?

Please see here for some of our best resources.

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Michele Katz elements_colors6.jpg — NACAC

The North American Council on Adoptable Children provides U.S. adoption support and resources.

Michele Katz elements_darker light blue.jpg — Kidsave

Learn about hosting/adopting older children from the U.S. and abroad.

Michele Katz elements_colors7.jpg — Adoptive Families

A wide array of resources and information for adoptive families.

Michele Katz elements_colors.jpg — Child welfare information gateway

A clearinghouse of state-specific adoption assistance information.

Your adoption papers are signed.

Here are some post-adoption resources.

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Michele Katz elements_colors5.jpg — Parents of Latin American Children (PLAC) Culture Camp

Michele Katz elements_colors2.jpg — Why adoption is my first choice

Michele Katz elements_colors4.jpg — Adoption as a first choice for a LGBTQ couple

Michele Katz elements_colors6.jpg — The Importance of Attachment in Adoption

Books

Michele Katz elements_colors7.jpg — In on It: What Adoptive Parents Would Like You To Know About Adoption. A Guide for Relatives and Friends

by Elisabeth O’Toole

Michele Katz elements_colors2.jpg — Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow

by Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky

Michele Katz elements_colors.jpg — The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family

by Karyn Purvis

Michele Katz elements_darker light blue.jpg — Inside Transracial Adoption: Strength-based, Culture-sensitizing Parenting Strategies for Inter-country or Domestic Adoptive Families That Don't "Match"

by Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg

Michele Katz elements_colors4.jpg — Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents

by Deborah Gray

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