Resources
Looking for even more information about adoption? We’ve got you covered. We compiled some of our favorite websites, books, blogs and organizations — sorted by topic — to help you navigate your adoption journey. Consider it an extension of the Adoption Support Alliance community — friends of friends who are here for you, no matter what you need.
General Adoption
Online Resources
Adoption Learning Partners offers meaningful, timely, web-based educational adoption resources for professionals, parents, adopted individuals, and the families that love them.
Creating a Family is nonprofit providing unbiased, accurate education and support for infertility or adoption based in North Carolina. It offers a weekly radio show, newsletter and blog.
C.A.S.E. is a trusted national and international resource on adoptive life for families, communities and professionals. C.A.S.E. offers counseling, professional training, education, family forums, public awareness and advocacy programs and publications and multimedia resources.
Adoptive Families, the award-winning, national adoption magazine, is the leading adoption information source for families before, during and after adoption.
The Huffington Post has a lot of great stories and featured blogs on adoption.
Books
by Sherrie Eldridge
by Sherrie Eldridge
By Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
By Karyn B. Purvis and David R. Cross
By Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky
by Lois Ruskai Melina
Domestic Adoption
Online Resources
Triangle Adoption Services is a licensed adoption agency specializing in adoptive home study and post-adoption services to families residing in North Carolina. The goal of Triangle Adoption Services is to ensure forever homes for children in need of parents through assessment, support and preparation of families who have the desire to grow through adoption.
Triangle Adoption Services is a licensed adoption agency specializing in adoptive home study and post-adoption services to families residing in North Carolina. The goal of Triangle Adoption Services is to ensure forever homes for children in need of parents through assessment, support and preparation of families who have the desire to grow through adoption.
Books
By Laura Beauvais-Godwin
Adoption from Foster Care
Online Resources
The Dave Thomas Foundation provides education and support to increase the number of adoptions from the foster care system.
Mecklenburg County DSS is the county department that handles adoption from the North Carolina foster care system.
Adopt US Kids offers an extensive database of children in U.S. foster care available for adoption and families who are home studied and approved to adopt them.
Foster Village Charlotte
Adopt US Kids offers an extensive database of children in U.S. foster care available for adoption and families who are home studied and approved to adopt them.
International Adoption
Online Resources
Hopscotch Adoptions, Inc. is a non-profit, Hague accredited placing agency based in High Point, NC and licensed to serve the entire State of North Carolina.
The internet's central location for information on international adoptions, special needs adoption, adoption articles and waiting child photolistings.
Books
Transracial Adoption
Online Resources
Books
by Amy Coughlin and Caryn Abramowitz
by Marlene Fine