Resources

Adoption is a lifelong process that requires planning and education. ACFAS encourages all to use and share the following:

 

 

NATIONAL AND REGIONAL ADOPTION RESOURCES

 

 

ADOPTION LITERATURE

  • GoodReads on Adoption Books
  • Adoption is a Family Affair! What Relatives and Friends Must Know — Patricia Irwin Johnston
  • Adoption, It’s Worth It! — Kimberly Moody
  • Adopting On Your Own: The Complete Guide to Adoption for Single Parents — Lee Varon
  • Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families — Patricia Irwin Johnston
  • A Love-Stretched Life — Jillana Goble
  • Attaching in Adoption — Deborah Gray
  • Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play — Deborah Gray
  • Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control — Heather Forbes and Brian Post
  • Being Adopted: The Livelong Search for Self — David Brodzinsky
  • Birthright: The Guide to Search and Reunion for Adoptees, Birthparents and Adoptive Parents — Jean Strauss
  • Has Your child Been Traumatized — Melissa Goldberg Mintz
  • Honestly Adoption: Answers to 101 Questions about Adoption and Foster Care — Mike and Kristen Berry
  • How We Do Family — Trystan Reese
  • Ithika: A Daughter’s Memoir of Being Found — Sarah Saffian
  • Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent’s Guide — Lis Ruskai Melina
  • Raising Adopted Children — Lois Melina
  • The Adoption Reunion Handbook — Howe, Trinder and Feast
  • The Baby Market: The Case for Adoption Reform — Anne Moody
  • The Children Money Can Buy — Anne Moody
  • The Connected Child — Karyn Purvis
  • The Kid — Dan Savage
  • The Open Adoption Experience — Lois Melina
  • The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption — Lori Holden
  • The Out-of-Sync Child — Carol Kranowitz
  • The Primal Wound — Nancy Newton Verrier
  • The Whole-Brain Child — Daniel Siegel and Payne Bryson
  • Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adopted Parents Knew — Sherrie Eldridge
  • You Should be Grateful — Angela Tucker

 

 

INFORMATION ON TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION

  • GoodReads on Transracial Adoption Books
  • Black Anthology: Adult Adoptees Claim Their Space — Diane Rene Christian
  • Black Baby White Hands — Jaiya John
  • Blending In: Crisscrossing the Lines of Race, Religion, Family and Adoption — B. Gowen
  • Dim Sum, Bales & Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families — Myra Alperson
  • Dreams from My Father — Barack Obama
  • In Their Voice: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption — Rhonda Roorda
  • In Their Own Voices, In Their Parents’ Voice and In Their Siblings Voices — Simon and Roorda
  • Inside Transracial Adoption — Steinberg & Hall
  • Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption — Jane Jeong Trenka
  • You Should be Grateful — Angela Tucker
  • W.I.S.E Up PowerBook — Marilyn Schoettle

 

 

CHILDREN’S BOOKS

  • GoodReads on Adoption Books for Children
  • AdopteeReading.com
  • Adoption is Both — Elena Hall
  • All You Can Ever Know — Nicole Chung
  • Akin to the Truth: A Memoir of Adoption and Identity — Paige Adams Strickland
  • And Tango Makes Three — Justin Richardson
  • And That’s Why She’s My Mama — Tiarra Nazario
  • A Mother for Choco — Keiko Kasza
  • Gotcha Day: A Carried in My Heart Adoption Story for Children — Rebecca Tabasso
  • Happy Adoption Day — John McCutcheon
  • Horace — Holly Keller
  • How I Was Adopted — Joanna Cole
  • I Don’t Have Your Eyes — Carrie Kitze
  • I Love You Like Crazy Cakes — Rose Lewis
  • I Wished for You: An Adoption Story — Marianne Richmond
  • My Family is Forever — Nancy Carlson
  • Over the Moon — Karen Katz
  • So You’ve Adopted a Sibling — Holly Harlow
  • Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born — Jamie Lee Curtis
  • The Adoption Tree — Kimberly James
  • The Mulberry Bird — Anne Brodzinsky
  • Twenty Life-Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make — Sherrie Eldridge
  • The Story of My Open Adoption — Leah Campbell
  • Yes, I’m Adopted — Sharlie Zinniger
  • We Belong Together — Todd Parr

 

 

ADOPTION-RELATED PODCASTS

 

 

RESOURCES FOR KINSHIP CARE

 

 

GRANTS AND LOANS FOR ADOPTIONS

 

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