RESOURCES
Adoption
Adopt US Kids
National Adoption Center
Adoption Support
Adoption Subsidy Advocates
North American Council on Adoptable Children
Advocacy
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Casey Family Services
Center for Children and Youth Justice
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children’s Action Network
Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative
National CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates)
National Foster Parent Association
North American Council on Adoptable Children
The Alliance for Children’s Rights
Treehouse Foundation
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
FASLink
University of Washington FAS Diagnostic and Prevention Network
Foster Youth Support
Born This Way Foundation
Camp to Belong
Foster Club
The Mockingbird Society
Under One Sky
Gay Adoption
Families Like Ours
Gay Family Values (extensive state-by-state resource list)
Gay Parent Magazine
Miscellaneous
Generations Together
Recommended Reading
Cline, Foster, and Fay, Jim. Parenting With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition)
NavPress, 2006
Dorris, Michael. The Broken Cord
HarperCollins, 1989
Dekker, Jake. One Kid at a Time
NiceTiger, 2012
Eldridge, Sherrie. Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
Delta, 1999
Gray, Deborah. Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents
Perspectives Press, 2002
Keck, Gregory. Parenting Adopted Adolescents: Understanding and Appreciating Their Journeys
NavPress, 2009
Keck, Gregory, and Kupecky, Regina. Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs KidsA Guide for Parents and Professionals (Hollywood Nobody)
NavPress Revised, 2009
Keck, Gregory, and Kupecky, Regina. Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow
NavPress, Revised 2009
Nash, Carolyn. Raising Abel
Amazon Digital Services, 2011
O’Hanlon, Timothy. Practical Guide to Adoption Subsidy for Adoptive Families and Advocates. Ebook, 2007.
O’Hanlon, Timothy, and Laws, Rita. Adoption and Financial Assistance: Tools for Navigating the Bureaucracy
Bergin & Garvey 1999
Savage, Dan. The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
Plume, 2000
Streissguth, Ann, and Kanter, Jonathan. The Challenge of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Overcoming Secondary Disabilities
University of Washington Press, 1997