Adoption Online Resources

A major part of the adoption process is getting the education you need to make such an important decisions. Hidden Choices recommends the following resources to educate you, the teen mother on loving, adoptive homes for your baby if you are choosing a “forever family.” Adoption is a compelling and courageous choice for your child if you are not yet ready to parent.

Gladney Center for Adoption
Birth parents have more choices than ever before. Founded more than 115 years ago as one man’s mission to find loving homes for orphaned children, the Gladney Center stands today as an international leader in adoption and maternity services specializing in international and domestic adoptions.

Adoption Ministry of Youth With A Mission
Adoption Ministry of Youth With A Mission places children, regardless of their ethnicity, age, or special needs, into strong, loving, Christian homes where they will be nurtured with Christ’s love.

Option of Love
Focus on the Family
Dr. James Dobson – This comprehensive site covers an array of concerns for diverse families, and includes resources for single parents, young moms and dads, and seasoned parents.

Adoption Links

  • Adoption.com – Adoption.com is committed to helping as many children as possible find loving, permanent homes. We also provide critical information at the decision-making moment to women facing crisis pregnancies. We assist adoptees and birthparents to find birthfamilies, and we help hopeful adoptive parents make adoption dreams come true. We are especially committed to helping special needs children in the U.S. and around the world, who otherwise wouldn’t be able to find families.
  • Adoptionnetwork.com – Are you looking for a solution to your unplanned pregnancy? Or perhaps you’re looking to adopt a newborn baby to help fulfill your dreams of parenting? Adoption Network Law Center can help.
  • AdoptionServices.org – Adoption Services is the most caring adoption agencies you are likely to find. We help pregnant women and birth mothers regardless of whether they are placing a child for adoption with us, another adoption agency or looking for help to raise their child themselves.  We have created one of the largest resources of information on financial, medical, nutritional and emotional support programs in the world to help you and your child.  You can call and we will help you find what you need to insure that a baby is safe and healthy, with you, or other loving parents.
  • AdoptUSKids – The mission of AdoptUSKids is two-fold: to raise public awareness about the need for foster and adoptive families for children in the public child welfare system; and to assist U.S. States, Territories and Tribes to recruit and retain foster and adoptive families and connect them with children.
  • All God’s Children Int’l – All God’s Children is an orphan care ministry dedicated to rescuing and caring for children around the world by providing the shelter, care and love that every child deserves. Here you can read about who we are, where we work, and how we are impacting the lives of the world’s orphans.
  • American Adoptions – American Adoptions is a licensed, full-service adoption agency offering adoption support, education and adoption services to families and birth parents across the country. Whether you are a woman facing an unplanned pregnancy or an adoptive couple hoping to make your dreams of parenthood come true through adoption, our agency is here to help you each step of the way. Learn more about how American Adoptions can help.
  • Babyzone – Considering adoption or foster parenting? Get guidelines and tips to help you welcome a child into your family.
  • Bethany Christian Services – Bethany Christian Services is the nation’s largest adoption agency, and we also care for women facing unplanned pregnancies and orphans living on five continents. We are called to care for children of all ages and in all stages of life. We serve children at conception by counseling women with unplanned pregnancies and by providing frozen embryos a chance for a full life through our embryo adoption program. Our commitment extends to children and teens who are living in foster care or in orphanages—children who need a “forever family.”
  • Birthmother.com
  • Birthright International – Birthright takes a “non-moralistic, non-judgmental” approach toward helping women through their pregnancy dilemmas. Louise regretted the fact that some young unmarried mothers were belittled or ostracized by their relatives: “I can never see anything wrong with any of them.” Louise recreated the supportive homelike environment they deserved to have. Moreover, Louise helped formulate a Charter, followed by all Birthright chapters worldwide, to define Birthright’s services, to ensure that pregnant women receive the same considerate treatment at every Birthright chapter, and to help volunteers preserve Birthright’s good reputation in the future.
  • Gladney Center for Adoption – For more than 120 years Gladney has been a pioneer and leading voice for improving the lives of children, adoptive families and birth parents.  With unwavering commitment, through good economic times and bad, we have focused on our mission and made a difference in the lives of birth parents, families and children here and around the world.
  • God’s Kids
  • Statewide Network – The Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) is both a broad-based cooperative effort and a centralized information and facilitation service funded and overseen by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. SWAN includes county children and youth agencies, juvenile court judges, foster and adoptive parents, private adoption agencies, the Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange and many others, all working together on behalf of children who need permanent homes.
  • Adoption Info Center of Illinois – The Adoption Information Center of Illinois (AICI) has helped connect children with adoptive families for more than 30 years.
  • Adoption Services – Adoption Rhode Island is a private nonprofit organization dedicated to finding families for children in state care and supporting those children and families throughout the adoption process. We also provide child, youth and family support services, education, training, advocacy, and referrals. We are proud to have found adoptive families for more than 1000 children, over the years, but there are hundreds of others in Rhode Island at any given time who need forever families.
  • Adoption Exchange Association  – Our central goal is to ASSIST and ENCOURAGE our members nationwide as they find adoptive families for ALL children and youth who wait in foster care.
  • Nebraska Foster & Adoptive Parent Association – The Mission of the Nebraska Foster and Adoptive Parent Association is to empower, support, and advocate for Nebraska families by promoting safety, permanency, and well-being of our children.
  • Association for Treatment & Training in the Attachment of Children – ATTACh recognizes and promotes healthy attachment and its critical importance to human development.
  • Boys & Girls Aid: Portland, Oregon – In 1885, Portland’s civic leaders founded Boys & Girls Aid to find safe homes and permanent families for children with neither. More than 125 years later, we’re still making that happen. Boys & Girls Aid is dedicated to impacting the lives of children in need. To do this, we offer programs for children and youth that provide permanent homes and safe places to stay temporarily.
  • Casey Family Services – Since its founding, Casey Family Services has evolved to provide comprehensive services that support safe, stable, and lifelong family relationships for children and youth both in foster care and in the struggling communities in which it works.
  • Catholic Social Services of Montana – CSSM coordinates a wide variety of adoption programs including the placement of infants, older children with special needs, children of color, and foreign born children. Strong and persistent effort goes into advocacy on behalf of adoptive parents, birth parents and adopted persons. We continue to pioneer efforts to sensitize and enrich the adoption experience.
  • Catholic Charities USA – The mission of Catholic Charities is to provide service to people in need, to advocate for justice in social structures, and to call the entire church and other people of good will to do the same.
  • Children’s Alliance of Kansas – Children’s Alliance of Kansas is the only association representing private, non-profit child welfare agencies. The association was established in 1954 to help agencies better serve the children of Kansas and their families.
  • Shelter Homes, National Placement Campaign – (CA)
  • Child Welfare League of America National Adoption Awareness Programs, Home Studies and publications promoting the well-being of children, youth, and families – (DC)
  • Explore Adoption: Florida – We believe there are loving, caring families willing to open their homes and their hearts to Florida’s children – enough for each and every child in state care to find a forever family.
  • Texas Department of Family & Protective Services – The mission of The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services is to protect children, the elderly, and people with disabilities from abuse, neglect, and exploitation by involving clients, families and communities.
  • Adoptive Families – award-winning national adoption magazine, is the leading adoption information source for families before, during, and after adoption.
  • Family Life – At FamilyLife, we realized there was a clear need to define God’s principles for the family so we created The Family Manifesto to provide families with a declaration of values.
  • Focus on the Family – Focus on the Family is a global Christian ministry dedicated to helping families thrive. We provide help and resources for couples to build healthy marriages that reflect God’s design, and for parents to raise their children according to morals and values grounded in biblical principles.
  • Iowa Foster & Adoptive Parents Association – The Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parents Association empowers, supports and advocates for foster, adoptive and kinship families in Iowa. IFAPA provides training, peer support and resources to promote safety, permanency and well-being for Iowa’s children.
  • Indiana Foster Care & Adoption Association – The Indiana Foster Care and Adoption Association (IFCAA) is a statewide non-profit membership organization that supports foster and adoptive families. IFCAA promotes awareness about the needs of children who have experienced trauma and the needs of the foster and adoptive parents who raise them
  • La Familia Inc. – Helps people in need live successfully within families and communities. La Familia provides multigenerational family and community living skills, coordinates care and helps clients deal effectively with their challenges. We strive to serve and deliver all our services with integrity, professionalism and respect for individual and cultural diversity. New Mexico.
  • Lund Family Center – Our mission is to help children thrive by serving families with children; pregnant or parenting teens and young adults, and adoptive families. Vermont.
  • Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange, Inc. – The Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE) was founded in 1957 to find “a permanent place to call home” for children and teens in foster care in Massachusetts, including sibling groups and children who are traditionally harder to place. We do this by recruiting, educating, supporting and advocating for families throughout the adoption process.
  • Harden House Adoption & Foster Care – This mission is accomplished in the adoption program through the premise that every child has the inherent right to the security and stability of a permanent home. For those children who cannot be raised by their biological families, permanent ties to new families must be established. Services will be provided to both the adoptive parents and the child to establish their new, more permanent relationship.
  • Loving Shepherd Ministries – The mission of LSM is to nurture orphaned, at-risk and exploited children around the world to reach their full, God-given potential by placing or keeping them in permanent, godly families; providing them with Christ-like care; and mobilizing and empowering God’s people to do the same.
  • Family Service & Children’s Aid – Family Service & Children’s Aid  touches the lives of thousands of Michigan families in Jackson and Lenawee Counties through counseling, foster care, adoption, community and school based programs, substance abuse treatment, and other services for children and families. Michigan.
  • North American Council on Adoptable Children – Founded in 1974 by adoptive parents, the North American Council on Adoptable Children is committed to meeting the needs of waiting children and the families who adopt them.
  • New State Citizens’ Coalition for Children – The Coalition provides support, information and advocacy for foster and adoptive parents and professionals in New York State
  • United Methodist Preservation Services – The goal of UMFS has always been ambitious – to provide a network of human services to enable children and families to realize their hopes for the future.
  • Adoption Resources of Wisconsin –  Adoption Resources of Wisconsin serves as an umbrella over adoption and foster care in Wisconsin, offering information, training, and support to families and professionals.

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July 24, 2013 by hidchoice in Adoption, Blog Comments are off
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