Education is crucial for forming healthy adoption relationships

We strongly encourage education as a crucial component for achieving a positive
experience for all parts of the adoption triad: the adopted child, birth parents, and adoptive parents.
Click on the links below to delve deeper into understanding adoption.

We strongly encourage education as a crucial component for achieving a positive experience for all parts of the adoption triad: the adopted child, birth parents, and adoptive parents. Click on the links below to delve deeper into understanding adoption.

Adoption Glossary

Adoption Glossary

Adoption Publication

Adoptive Families Online Magazine

Financial Resources

National Council For Adoption’s financial resources list

Pathways for Little Feet – no interest loans for adoption and post-adoption counseling grants

Adoption Tax Credit

Becky Wilmoth, adoption tax specialist

Book Recommendations for Adults

The Open Adoption Experience by Lois Molina

Raising Adopted Children by Lois Molina

Brown Babies Pink Babies by Amy Ford

The Open Hearted Way to Open Adoption: Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole by Lori Holden

…More Recommendations

Book Recommendations for Kids

A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasra

God Found Us You by Lisa Tawn Bergren & Laura J. Bryant

How I Was Adopted by Joanna Cole

Yes, I’m Adopted! by Sharlie Zinniger

…More recommendations

Book Recommendations for Parenting

Baby 411 by Dr. Ari Brown & Denise Fields

Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child by Marc Weissbluth M.D

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and How to Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

Parenting with Love & Logic by Foster Cline & Jim Fay

The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman & Ross Campbell

The Secrets of Happy Families by Bruce Feiler; >Author’s TED Talk

Movies and Adoption

Adoption at the Movies by Addison Cooper

Adoption at the Movies Blog by Addison Cooper

Post-Placement Adoption Support

Adoptive Families of Houston – in person support group in Greater Houston area

Chosen.Care – coaching, counseling and therapeutic services

Apps for Communicating with Birth Families

ChildConnect.com

Podcasts on Adoption

Creating a Family

Adoption: The Long View

Podcasts on Parenting

Raising Boys and Girls

The Wonder of Parenting

ADHD Experts by ADDitude magazine – Strategies and Support for ADHD and LD