This scholarship is for children adopted later in life (at or after 13). It aims to provide opportunities for advanced education (must be incoming freshman). Each year, one student is selected to receive a scholarship of up to $10,000 annually. The scholarship can go towards tuition, books, and other college-related expenses.
This scholarship is open to all adoptees (domestic or international) who plan to or are currently in higher education. Applicants could be awarded up to $500. Scholarship applications are centered around a question or theme relating to the adoptee experience.
Adoption STAR offers four unique scholarship opportunities for the adoption community. Scholarships are for academics, LGBTQ+ prospective parents, and special needs children. All of the criteria and application requirements for the scholarships are included.
This article answers a few questions about college scholarships for adopted youth. It also provides links to different college scholarships for international adoptees and youth adopted from foster care.
This article ranks and discusses some of the best scholarship search engines. These engines can be useful in finding scholarships that are adoption specific.
A list of adoptee support groups, including groups for general adoptee support, international adoptee support, foster care adoptee support, and person of color (POC) adoptee support. The article also includes various other resources for adoptees (organizations, hotlines, therapists).
This is a location-based search directory for adoptee support groups. Profiles include location, contact information, events, and photos. It features a list of the largest adoptee groups and many subgroups for adoptee communities (domestic adoptees, transracial adoptees, adoption reunion, etc.).
ICAV’s mission is to educate, support, connect, collaborate, galvanize, and give voice to intercountry adoptees. On this webpage, they provide a list of adoptee groups that can be filtered by country of origin.
This alliance brings adoptive families together in North Carolina. They offer three types of groups: therapist-led, community-led, and a mix of support and education (“support-ucation”). Session donations of $20 are suggested, but all groups are “pay what you can.”
Heart of Adoptions is a private adoption agency. They offer a list of various support groups, and descriptions and contact information for each group. There are single parent, adoptee, mental health, birth family groups, and more.
