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Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted From Foster Care: A Factsheet for Families
This fact sheet presents details about financial assistance available to adoptive families who are considering adopting a child or children with special needs but are unable to afford the costs of car... Details >
Adoption Glossary - National Adoption Center 
This document presents a glossary of terms commonly used within adoption. It includes legal terminology. It is not meant to be an all-inclusive glossary, but it gives a basic reference point for commu... Details >
Adoption Options At-a-Glance: A Companion Guide for Families
Also available in: Spanish
This guide focuses on one way to think about how choices in adoption may flow from one another.... Details >
Adoption Options: A Fact Sheet for Families
Also available in: Spanish
This fact sheet provides basic information about adoption options and it focuses on one way to think about how choices in adoption may flow from one another.... Details >
Adoption: Where Do I Start?
Also available in: Spanish
Answers to questions that are commonly asked by persons who are considering adoption. Topics covered include what children are available for adoption; who can adopt; what kinds of costs are involved; ... Details >
Are You Pregnant and Thinking About Adoption?
Also available in: Spanish
Answers questions and concerns to individuals that may be considering giving a baby up for adoption.... Details >
Casey Family Services
Casey Family Services is a fully licensed and accredited non-profit child welfare agency providing a broad range of programs to meet the changing needs of vulnerable children and families throughout N... Details >
Explaining Adoption to Your Children, Family, and Friends
This fact sheet addresses the complicated issue of adoption, defining it, explaining it to others, and dealing with the feelings that arise. A complete bibliography, resource list and resources for ad... Details >
Foster Parents Considering Adoption: A Factsheet for Families
This factsheet is written for foster parents who are considering adopting one or more of the children in their care. While this factsheet does not address the specifics of how to adopt, it provides in... Details >
Frequently Asked Questions: Adoption
The page presents frequently asked questions about adoption. The information on this page is arranged into questions and answers for prospective and adoptive parents, adopted people, and expectant and... Details >
Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program
The Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program is a multi-level adoption awareness training to designated staff at public and non-profit private entities that provide health and counseling services to... Details >
International Adoption: Health Aspects
Children adopted from other countries do have a higher rate of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, parasites and hepatitis B. ... Details >
Meet the Children: AdoptUSKids
Children throughout the United States are waiting for permanent families. Some have special physical, emotional or educational needs. More than 60 percent come from minority cultures. You will find ov... Details >
Multiethnic Placement Act and Interethnic Adoption Provisions
Fact sheets and regulatory guidelines on the use of race, color or national origin as consideration in adoption and foster care placements.... Details >
Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
National Foster Care and Adoption Directory
Also available in: Spanish
Includes State-by-State contact information for a variety of adoption-related organizations and services including public and licensed private adoption agencies, support groups, State reunion registri... Details >
Positive Adoption Language - National Adoption Center
The words we choose say a lot about what we think and value. When we use positive adoption language, we say that adoption is a way to build a family just as birth is a way to build a family. This docu... Details >
The Impact of Adoption on Birth Parents
This resource is written for birth parents and addresses adoption form their point of view. It focuses on the most common experiences of parents who have voluntarily placed their infants for adoption.... Details >