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This lens is made for those interested in adopting a child. I hope the information and links provided help you understand a lil more about the child welfare system. Happy parenting!:)

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Spaulding For Children
Dedicated to building and sustaining
strong, nurturing families for children
who have endured abuse, neglect
or abandonment.
Warm Blankets
Orphan Care and Rescue: Our ministry is dedicated to rescuing orphans and widows through church planting and orphanage outreach
Children's Bureau
The Children's Bureau seeks to provide for the safety, permanency and well being of children through leadership, support for necessary services, and productive partnerships with States, Tribes and communities.
Adoption Guide
There's more than one way to build a family-and adopting a child into your home and your hearts is one of the most wonderful. But how do you figure out if adoption is right for you-and how do you get started? You'll find the answers to your questions here.
Adoption History Project
During the twentieth century, child adoption was reimagined in scientific terms, as a social experiment and human laboratory that could produce knowledge as well as help children. Researchers were persuaded that adoption could answer basic scientific questions about development, nature and nurture, and family norms. Professionals and parents were persuaded that scientific research would improve family-making by minimizing risks and maximizing safety. Adoption has been the subject of four major types of empirical research: field studies, outcome studies, nature-nurture studies, and psychopathology studies.
Adoption Council
NCFA has been a champion of adoption since its founding in 1980. Whether as an advocate for state laws that promote sound adoption policy, a resource for federal officials and policymakers about appropriate federal adoption initiatives and reform, a diplomat for sound international adoption policy, or a source of adoption facts and education, NCFA is devoted to serving the best interests of children through adoption. Learn more about the ways in which NCFA works to promote the positive option of adoption.
Adoption means Love
The mission of The Adoption Means Love Foundation (AML) is to normalize adoption world-wide, by uplifting it from the 'clinical' to the 'inspirational,' thus eradicating the societal and governmental misconceptions, which prevent children-in-waiting from having hope of a forever family.
Child Welfare
Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Adopt Org
Most children waiting to be adopted are school-aged or in a sibling group that needs to stay together. Many have emotional disabilities; others have physical, mental or developmental disabilities. All need the love of a permanent family.
Joy of being a Family with your Adopted Infant or Child
Adoptive parenting. Creating successful, well-functioning adoptive families. Hundreds of resources for adoptive parents meeting everyday and unusual challenges.

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Foster Care and Adoption Resources

There are so many resources available. I have not read or seen all of these, so read the descriptions to choose the right ones for you.

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Foster Parenting DVD

Foster Parenting DVD

On this edition of American Family we focus on families who take children into foster care and those who adopt foster children Would you like to take a foster child into your home? Most children going into foster care have been traumatized one way or another. We'll talk with Linda and Phil Basinger and one of their foster daughters, as well as Gordon and Bonnie Lange-a really extraordinary couple from Alaska who have fostered more than 700 children. The agonies and the ecstasies of being foster....0 points

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Welcome Home, Forever Child: A Celebration of Children Adopted as Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Beyond by Christine Mitchell

Welcome Home, Forever Child: A Celebration of Children Adopted as Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Beyond by Christine Mitchell

This book provides reassurance to children and parents that a lifetime of important memories can be created regardless of the age at which a child joins his or her forever family. The rhymes and delightful illustrations will appeal to children from toddler age through middle childhood.0 points

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A Burden to Foster: Opening Our Hearts to Children in Need by Terry Jene Taylor

A Burden to Foster: Opening Our Hearts to Children in Need by Terry Jene Taylor

For years, Terry Jene Taylor fostered a burden to reach out to hurting children. Writing from personal experiences with children placed in her care, she understands first hand the trials and blessings which accompany reaching out to hurting children. Heart-warming, frank and informational, and written to help those interested in or considering fostering, this books helps understand some of the dynamics in parenting children in crisis and helps those currently fostering understand that they aren%...0 points

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A Guidebook for Raising Foster Children by Susan McNair Blatt

A Guidebook for Raising Foster Children by Susan McNair Blatt

Foster parents need wisdom to guide foster children to enable them to have a meaningful experience. This book, written by a pediatrician, with the help of foster parents, provides guidance and suggestions to maximize the experience for foster families and assist them in the process. With the help of many foster parents, this book contains practical suggestions for those who care for foster children. It addresses many of the major and minor problems that may arise. This book contains easily under...0 points

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