For Professionals Who Work With Families

Recruiting and Preparing Families

Supporting Expectant Birth Parents

Types of Adoption

Types of Adoptive Families

Post-Adoption Information

For more information
on children waiting
for families in
the U.S. foster care
system, see

AdoptUSKids

For information on child abuse and neglect, see

National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information

Resources designed to help professionals educate the families they serve.

Recruiting and Preparing Families
Resources for professionals working with kinship, foster, or adoptive families in each stage of the adoption process, including applicable laws and funding resources that help make adoption affordable.

Supporting Expectant Birth Parents
Information on applicable laws to help professionals working with expectant parents in the decision-making process and beyond.

Types of Adoption
Information and resources regarding different types of adoption: Intercountry Adoption and Domestic Adoption, which includes independent adoption, adoption from foster care, kinship/relative adoption, and Native American adoption. Also includes legal information on who may adopt and who may be adopted in each State.

Types of Adoptive Families
About and for different types of adoptive families: Married, Single, Military, Kinship/Relative, Gay/Lesbian, and Transracial.

Post-Adoption Information
Resources for professionals to share with families to promote the stability of adoptive placements and reduce the likelihood of adoption disruption or dissolution. Includes information on the legal enforceability of post-adoption contact agreements in each State.

Adoption General Information Packet 1: Getting Started
This collection of factsheets published by the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse provides an overview of the adoption process.

Adoption General Information Packet 2: Funding Adoption
This collection of materials provides an overview of the costs involved in the adoption process as well as sources of financial assistance.

Adoption General Information Packet 3: Searching for Birth Relatives
This collection of factsheets examines issues related to the search process and discusses of the impact of adoption on birth parents and adopted persons.

A Service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

For more information, contact:
National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
330 C Street, SW
Washington, DC 20447
Phone: (703) 352-3488 or (888) 251-0075
Fax: (703) 385-3206
E-mail: naic@caliber.com

Updated on October 8, 2004 by webmaster_naic@caliber.com.



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