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I want to build the most comprehensive listing available online of special children just waiting for their family to find them. Let's bring them home!
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Multi agency Photolistings
- RainbowKids Waiting Children
- This photolisting is wonderful and easy to use. Rainbow Kids has added even more features, so that you can easily search for specific special needs. Agencies can also add video clips of their special little ones! A must see.
- Precious in His Site
- If you click on "search by multiple criteria", you can choose to search only for children with physical (or developmental) disabilities.
- Until All Have Homes
- Until All Have Homes spreads awareness of the children who still wait for their family to find them.
- Chances by Choice: International Adoption, Education and Supportive Services For Children with HIV/AIDS
- Finding homes for internatioally born children With HIV/AIDS.
- ICAN Waiting Children
- Waiting children from many countries with missing limbs or digits- and ICAN provides support for parenting child amputees.
- CHASK Children Waiting for families
- You may put your homestudy on file with Christian Homes and Special Kids for birthmother (often having special needs children) to choose from. CHASK also often rehomes children going through a disruption on their waiting children page.
- Little People of America Adoption Resources
- You now have to log in to see the waiting children with dwarfism, but LPA does have a brief textlisting of children they are advocating for.
- Deaf Adoption Network
- Deaf children who wait for a home
- Reese's Rainbow Down's Syndrome Waiting Children
- Reese's Rainbow advocates for orphans with Down Syndrome. They collect grant money for specific children as well, in hopes of making the adoption expenses less of a burden on their family.
- Reece's Rainbow Other Angels
- Reece's Rainbow also lists children without DS, but with other significant needs. You can also donate to a waiting child's grant fund.
Adoption Titles at Amazon
Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 10/07/2008)
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families With Special-Needs Kids : A Guide for Parents and Professionals
Amazon Price: $15.63 (as of 10/07/2008)
Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft
Amazon Price: $10.20 (as of 10/07/2008)
Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 10/07/2008)
Granting organizations
- Brittany's Hope
- Brittany's Hope gives grants to specific special needs children. Be sure to see their waiting children!
- The Shepherd's Crook Ministries - Waiting Children
- The Shepherd's Crook supports Christian families who wish to adopt special needs children. Sometimes they are able to provide grants for the children that they advocate for.
What are special needs?
Everyone has problems. Some are visible, some are not. For an orphan who is designated "special needs", there is a problem that has made it hard for him/her to find a forever family willing to bring this child home. Sometimes it is just that most adoptive parents are looking for cuddly babies, and he's "too old". Sometimes there something very minor, such as a birthmark, or a repaired medical problem. Sometimes children have had a difficult past and need a family that is able to help them through their pain. Or maybe they have a significant medical problem that requires surgery or physical therapy.
It is wrong that a child in these situations must wait so long to find their family. Each one of these children is as amazing a blessing as a child without a label. Won't you reach out to one of these special children?
It is wrong that a child in these situations must wait so long to find their family. Each one of these children is as amazing a blessing as a child without a label. Won't you reach out to one of these special children?
Special Needs titles at Amazon
Children With Visual Impairments: A Parents' Guide (The Special-Needs Collection)
Amazon Price: (as of 10/07/2008)
A Parent's Guide to Down Syndrome : Toward a Brighter Future, Revised Edition
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 10/07/2008)
Children With Spina Bifida: A Parent's Guide (The Special Needs Collection)
Amazon Price: (as of 10/07/2008)
Children With Cerebral Palsy: A Parents' Guide
Amazon Price: $12.89 (as of 10/07/2008)
SIGN with your BABY - Baby Sign Language (ASL) Kit: Includes Book, How-to DVD, Quick Reference Guide
Amazon Price: $32.97 (as of 10/07/2008)
Agency Special Needs Listings
(Note: I have no experience with any of these agencies. Please do your own research before deciding to adopt through them)
- Waiting Int'l Children: Helping Children with Special Needs Find Families Through Adoption
- Children's Home Society & Family Services has many beautiful children that are waiting for their families, you can see their monthly featured children here.
- One World Adoptions Waiting Children
- Waiting children from Haiti and South America (Brazil).
- Focus on Children Waiting Children
- Focus on Children lists waiting children from Eastern Europe on their website.
- Special Waiting Child La Vida
- Waiting children from China
- AAC Adoption waiting children
- Children from China and Korea, looking for their home.
- Waiting babies at Children of Promise
- On orphanage in Haiti that lists their waiting babies. They will put you in contact with a facilitator if you wish to pursue adopting one of their precious little ones.
- Meet Our Angels At Answered Prayers
- An orphanage in Haiti lists their children
- Celebrate Children's Foreign Treasures
- Special Children from China, Guatemala, and Haiti
- Kids To Adopt International Adoption and Waiting Child Photolisting
- Waiting children from Eastern Europe
- Families For Children
- Special children from Taiwan
- Bethany :: International Adoptable Children
- International Adoptable Children at Bethany.
- Holt Waiting Child Photolisting
- Waiting children from China, Haiti, Vietnam, Korea and others.
- Reaching Out Adoption Agency Waiting Children from Foreign Countries
- Waiting Children from Eastern Europe and Asia. Don't miss the Special Kids listing!
- Illien Adoption Waiting Children
- Textlisting of waiting children in Eastern Europe and Asia
- Angels' Haven International Outreach
- Angels Haven Outreach provides international adoption options for children in Russia, Asia, Latin America, and other countries. Photolisting of Guatemalan babies.
- Adoption Associates, Inc. : Waiting Children
- Sweet faces from China, Guatemala, Haiti, oh my!
- Special Delivery -- Children with Special Needs -- A Helping Hand Adoption Agency
- Waiting in China
- CASI Adoption Waiting Children
- Sweethearts from China (textlisting), Guatamala and Haiti (textlisting)
- China Adoption With Love
- Scroll down for a textlisting of their current special needs list from China.
- Heritage Adoption Services-China waiting children
- Textlisting of China special needs list
- Chinese Adoption Agency | Living Hope Adoption Agency's Waiting Child Program
- Listing of Living Hope's Special Needs list from China
- Special Needs--Lifeline Children's Services
- Lifline's China Waiting Children list.
- Focus on Children of Wyoming -
- Waiting children from Kazakhstan, Russia, or Bulgaria
- Adoption Avenues, International Adoption Agency
- Photolisting, sparse information, some special needs
- Photolisting | Carolina Hope Christian Adoption Agency | International Adoptions & Adoption Home Studies
- Carolina Hope's special kiddos in Guatemala
- Adopt a Special Needs Child from China- Adoption House
- Photolisting of Adoption House' current China Special Needs list
- Small World Adoption Programs®
- Waiting Children from China
- HOPE for Children
- Current Waiting Children China Special Needs list for HOPE
- Liberian Adoptions through Acres of Hope
- textlisting of some special children waiting in Liberia, Africa
- International Adoption Special Needs
- Adoption Ark's listing of their special needs children in Europe
- Spence-Chapin Services ASAP, A Special Needs Adoption Program Waiting Children
- Domestic special needs babes
- Life's Vision International : Waiting Children
- Life's Vision International is an adoption agency, their textlisting of waiting children are in Haiti
- Petits Anges Children
- This website is not maintained by an adoption agency, but rather for Petits Anges de Chantal Orphanage in Haiti. See all the children they care for here, sometimes they need to find homes for special needs children.
- Three Angels
- Three Angels Orphanage in Haiti photolisting
Textlisting vs. photolisting
I put links to both photolistings and textlistings on this page. While a picture will give more of an emotional impact, it is the text that helps you decide whether this child will fit in your family. Look for information on the child's medical needs, personality, and attachment.
May your child find you soon!
May your child find you soon!
Reader Feedback
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miragana
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RealMom
This is great! 5 stars! We adopted our precious special needs daughters through foster care. I still can't stop looking and praying through these photo listings! Read our story and rate my lens http://www.squidoo.com/adoptionandfostercare Posted May 12, 2008 |
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JulieMann
Very information lens. Lots of real good stuff. Posted March 26, 2008 |
