This is a comprehensive guide for adoptive parents on how to care for adopted children and promote healthy attachment. It explains what attachment is, how trauma can affect children’s emotional development, and how to improve attachment, respect, cooperation and trust. This book covers various topics, including international adoption, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, and learning disabilities. It’s considered an important resource for adoption-competent professionals.
This alliance explains the importance of support groups and provides information about their own support group. CAFA’s support group offers general support to parents and caregivers raising their adoptive (or soon-to-be adopted) children. The support group meetings are free, parent-led, and meet monthly.
This article explains the benefits of parent support groups for parents of adoptees. It discusses single parents’ and couples’ challenges and provides some resources for parents interested in exploring support groups.
This organization has a search directory that allows users to filter through countless adoption support groups in North America. There are many support group categories, including ones for single parents, birth parents, pre-adoption, and post-adoption.
This center is dedicated to providing parents of children with disabilities with information, training, and assistance. Their resource page features many websites and tools for parents of children with disabilities.
A brief overview on how to identify a disability in a child, the first steps parents can take to address their child’s needs, and parenting strategies.
This is a directory for resources for kids with disabilities across the United States. It lists consultants, psychologists, tutors, therapists, coaches, and other professionals who serve children with disabilities by state and zip code.
This book provides practical advice for parents of children with special needs and disabilities. It discusses hiring babysitters and free respite help, finding the best and kindest doctors, managing family dynamics, advocating for your child, and more.
This article answers the question: “Does your State provide additional finances or services for medical or therapeutic needs not covered under your State medical plan to children receiving adoption assistance?” It proceeds with a state-by-state breakdown of available adoption subsidies.
This article discusses subsidies that provide additional support for adoptees and their families. It explains what they are, which entities provides them, who is eligible, the application process, and tips for earning them.
