International Adoption
General Adoption Resources:
Adoption Clubhouse
A program of the National Adoption Center, Adoption Clubhouse is a unique post-adoption website where children can learn and express their thoughts about adoption. This interactive site was designed specifically for children between the ages of 8 and 13.
Adoptive Families Magazine
This award-winning, national adoption magazine is the leading adoption information source for families before, during, and after adoption.
Adoptive Family Travel
Adoption Language
Language books and CDs to help families communicate with their internationally adopted children when they first come home
Adoption Learning Partners
The vision of Adoption Learning Partners is to make a positive, measurable impact on adoption outcomes. We offer meaningful, timely, web-based educational adoption resources for professionals, parents, adopted individuals, and the families that love them.
Adoption Today
A magazine dedicated to transracial and intercountry adoption
Birthvillage.com
BirthVillage is a new website devoted to expectant and new parents. It features online birth announcements, picture galleries, guestbooks, baby blogs, and over 18,000 baby names.
Dave Thomas Foundation
This foundation is dedicated to increasing the adoptions of the more than 150,000 waiting children in North America's foster care system. This site also includes financial and workplace topics.
Joint Council on International Children's Services
the oldest and largest affiliation of licensed, non-profit international adoption organizations in the world
Journey To Me
An online resource dedicated to "Helping Adopted Children Thrive"
Older Child Adoption
Resources for families, friends, and community
Rainbow Kids
The Internet's central location for adoption information, intercountry adoptions, special needs adoption, adoption articles, and waiting child photo listings
www.tapestrybooks.com
Your complete resource f or adoption books
www.adopting.org
A search engine for adoption related topics
www.international.adoption.com
Providing articles and resources on various adoption topics
www.perspectivespress.com
The infertility and adoption publisher
adoption.suite101.com
Articles related to general and intercountry adoption
www.icareaboutorphans.org
Focus on the Family’s site that provides many ways to get involved—praying, giving, mobilizing your church, or
adopting
www.informedadoptions.com
Articles about two main topics: Choosing Intercountry Adoption and Raising an Internationally Adopted Child
www.comeunity.com/adoption
300+ full-length adoption articles by adoption specialists, medical experts, and adoptive parents to help you adopt and raise your child
Multi-Cultural/Language/Travel
Adoptive Family Homeland Journeys: The Ties Program Helping Children see that the people they share their heritage with are warm, wonderful, and genuine
www.multiculturalkids.com
Multicultural books, language resources, DVDs, crafts, and games
Medical websites
www.adoptmed.org
Includes links, favorite books, pediatric tips & tricks, and over eighty topics in adoption and pediatrics from their unique perspective as pediatricians who work with adoptive families from early referral jitters and excitement, through travels and travails, to homecomings and adjustment periods, and onward through school into adulthood
www.orphandoctor.com
This site was designed to educate families hoping to adopt children both domestically and from abroad, starting with pre-adoption counseling to long-term developmental issues and concerns.
Professional/Governmental Organizations
Joint Council on International Children's Services
Joint Council works to ensure that orphaned and vulnerable children can live, grow, and flourish in a family. Advocating for high standards, ethical practices, and child-centered policies, Joint Council educates governments, professionals, and families with a goal of finding a safe, permanent, and loving family for every child.
www.travel.state.gov
U.S. Department of State website regarding travel information, warnings, and procedures for traveling abroad
www.adoptioncouncil.org
This is the National Council for Adoption (NCFA) website. The NCFA is a research, education, and advocacy organization.
China
China Center for Adoption Affairs
Families with Children from China
China Adopt
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Medical Issues for Chinese Children
Embassy of the People's Republic of China
Attachment Issues of Chinese Adoptees
China Connection
China Site
Military Families
A resource for military families to understand the unique legal processes and support for intercountry adoption while serving in the Armed Forces
The views of the websites above do not necessarily portray the views of Bethany Christian Services. Some are used as references.