Resources

Adoption Learning Partners

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  

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.

Center for Adoption Support and Education  

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 Magazine

Adoptive Families, the award-winning, national adoption magazine, is the leading adoption information source for families before, during and after adoption.

Huffington Post

The Huffington Post has a lot of great stories and featured blogs on adoption.

20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed

by Sherrie Eldridge

20 Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

by Sherrie Eldridge

Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Our Families

by Adam Pertman

The Body Keeps the Score: The Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

The Connected Child

By Karyn B. Purvis and David R. Cross

Parenting the Hurt Child

By Gregory C. Keck and Regina M. Kupecky

Raising Adopted Children: Practical Reassuring Advice for Every Adopted Parent

by Lois Ruskai Melina

Triangle Adoption Services

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.

Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption       

The Dave Thomas Foundation provides education and support to increase the number of adoptions from the foster care system.

Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services

Mecklenburg County DSS is the county department that handles adoption from the North Carolina foster care system.

Adopt US Kids    

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.

Hopscotch Adoptions

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.

Rainbow Kids

The internet's central location for information on international adoptions, special needs adoption, adoption articles and waiting child photolistings.

Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child: From Your First Hours Together through the Teen Years

By Patti Cogan

Toddler Adoption: The Weavers Craft

By Lori Holden

Pact

Serving adopted children of color by providing not only adoptive placement but lifelong education, support, and community for adoptees and their families on matters of adoption and race.

Cross-Cultural Adoption: How to Answer Questions from Family, Friends and Community

by Amy Coughlin and Caryn Abramowitz

The Interracial Adoption Option: Creating a Family Across Race

by Marlene Fine

Inside Transracial Adoption: Strength-based, Culture-sensitizing Parenting Strategies for Inter-country or Domestic Adoptive Families That Don't "Match"

By Gail Steinberg