Resources
Helpful Websites:
Adoptive Family Magazine articles, activities, while you wait support - www.adoptivefamilies.com
Learn more about local, regional, statewide adoption resource lists; Warm Line phone support and adoption referral service, Buddy Mentoring Program (experienced adoptive parents), Adoption support groups, Chat room - www.njarch.org (1.877.4ARCHNJ)
Pennsylvania based website that offers online adoptive parent preparation course, resource listings, online newsletter regarding adoption issues, chat room, photolisting exchange of waiting children -www.adopt.org
Resources for people considering adoption and adopted children, directory of adoption professionals, online support, photolisting of older children for adoption -www.adoption.com
Consumer site where can search "adoption", provides links to professional and supportive organizations - www.about.com
North American Council on Adoptable Children- host of annual adoption conference; advocates for the right of every child to a permanent, continuous, nurturing and culturally sensitive family; provides training; conducts studies; and prepares teaching materials which are made available to those involved in adoption - www.nacac.org
Evan B. Donaldson Institute web-site offers information on adoption policies, law, statistics, facts, international adoption regulations, e-newsletter - www.adoptioninstitute.com
National Institute of Mental Health web-site offers articles for parents and kids on mental health diagnosis, common medications to treat various diagnoses - www.nimh.org
CHOP's International Adoption Health Program available for pre-adoption and post-adoption screening and treatment - www.chop.edu/consumer/jsp/division/service.jsp?id=73553 -
Joint Council on International Children's Services - www.jcics.org
National search engine, photolisting of older children available for adoption nationally, links to state web-sites, links to helpful adoption resource - www.adoptuskids.org
Recommended Books (to read in preparation for adoption/during process of adoption):
Adoption Nation by Adam Pertman
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self by Brodzinsky, Schechter, & Marantz- Henig
Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother by Jan Wolff
You're Our Child: The Adoption Experience by Smith & Miroff
Adopting the Older Child by Claudia L. Jewett
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Needs Kids by Keck & Kupecky (revised and updated, now includes information on foreign adoptions)
An Insider's Guide to Transracial Adoption by Steinberg & Hall
Talking to Your Child about Adoption by Patricia Martinez Dorner
Talking with Young Children about Adoption by Watkins & Fisher
The Face in the Mirror: Teenagers and Adoption by Marion Crook
Attaching in Adoption by Deborah Gray
The Spirit of Open Adoption by James Gritter
The Open Adoption Experience by Melina & Roszia
How to Adopt Internationally by Nelson-Erichsen & Erichsen
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
Adoption Book Catalogs and Magazines:
Tapestry Books- Adoption Book Catalog, (1.800.765.2367), www.tapestrybooks.com
Alphabet Soup Books, Adoption and Diversity Books, (1.609.771.3700), www.alphabetsoupbookstore.com
"Roots &Wings Adoption Magazine", (1.908.637.8828), www.adopting.org/rw.html
Recommended Children's Books about Adoption:
The Duck Wedding by N. Patricia Yarborough - general adoption story
Mr. Rogers- Let's Talk about it: Adoption by Fred Rogers- focuses on feelings of belonging
Adoption is For Always by Linda Walvoord Girard or The Mulberry Bird by Anne Braff Brodzinsky- help children understand about a birth parents' decision to make an adoption plan
Twice Upon a Time: Born and Adopted by Eleanora Patterson - from birth family to adoptive family
Why Was I Adopted? by Carole Livingston - a child\'s journey from birth to adoptive family
The Coffee Can Kid by Jan Czech- story about a little girl adopted by China
Happy Adoption Day by John McCutcheon - all families are different and wonderful just the same
A Mother for Choco by Keido Kasza -family members can all look different and still be a family
