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Home > Resources > Adoption Web Links Adoption Web LinksThe list of adoption Web links below is designed to give you additional information and resources external to Lilliput Children's Services. Each Web site link takes you first to a description of the site and the benefits that Lilliput sees in it for you.
If you'd like to suggest a site that you feel will be helpful to others, please contact us.
NACAC (North American Council on Adoptable Children)NACAC (www.nacac.org) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting adoptive parents, promoting adoption awareness, informing adoption professionals, and helping children find permanent, loving families. Serving parents and professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada, NACAC publishes material, conducts training, advocates for system change, and provides support related to: Adoption support and preservation, parent group development, adoption subsidies, adoptive and foster parent recruitment, transracial/transcultural parenting, child welfare system reform, kinship care concurrent planning. NACAC also holds the most comprehensive adoption conference in North America. In Minnesota, NACAC recruits foster and adoptive parents and provides peer support to adoptive families.
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 | Increasing public awareness about the realities of adopted life for birth and adoptive families |
| Changing public policies related adoption practices to acknowledge adoption as an extension of family. |
| Legislation in all states guaranteeing access to identifying information for all adopted persons and their birth and adoptive families through records access and preservation of open adoption agreements. |
| The right for birth family reunification for all adults, without prior restraint, through search and support group networking and/or social service assistance. |
| United Friends of the Children College Sponsorship Program - UFC provides support services to more than 2,000 current and former foster youth each year, working to provide them with the opportunity to finish high school, find housing, attend college and build the skills to support themselves. The organization’s programs address the most tangible needs of foster youth while also encouraging them to explore issues of identity, trust, self-esteem, communication and emotional well-being. |
| Casey Family Scholars Scholarship - Casey Family Programs’ mission is to provide and improve—and ultimately to prevent the need for—foster care. They provide direct services, and promote advances in child-welfare practice and policy. They collaborate with foster, kinship, and adoptive parents to provide safe, loving homes for youth in our direct care, as well as with counties, states, and American Indian and Alaska Native tribes to improve services and outcomes for the more than 500,000 young people in out-of-home care across the U.S. |
| National Foster Parent Association Scholarship - NFPA is the only national organization which strives to support foster parents, and remains a consistently strong voice on behalf of all children. With affiliates in U.S. states and territories, NFPA serves foster families and the children and youth in their care through a network of affiliates. |
| ADD/ADHD Resources - This site offers information about ADD/ADHD to parents and professionals. There are many free articles about the disorder, diagnosis, treatment, and long term effects. The site also has a newsletter and provider directory to locate professionals who treat/coach individuals with ADHD. Requires a membership fee for most information/newsletters/advice. Workshops and support services are central to the Washington area. Information is relevant for professionals who would like to list themselves as providers and individuals with ADHD or parents who are looking for information, support, services, and training. |
| National Adoption Center - administers several adoption programs to help families find children waiting for adoption, and provide education, resources, research and information on legal benefits. |
| Adoption Club House - Helpful website for adopted children to express themselves and develop a sense of belonging. The site allows kids to submit essays, artwork, pictures, book and movie references, homework assistance, and games. |
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Adoptions Training Project - This website features a searchable California community resource directory. The resource directory includes post-placement resources and information for adoptions staff, child service professionals, parents, and caregivers of foster and adopted children. We hope that you find the information and resources helpful. |
| American Academy of Adoption Attorneys - a national association of approximately 330 attorneys who practice, or have otherwise distinguished themselves, in the field of adoption law. |
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 American
Academy of Pediatrics – dedicated to the health of all children.
Car Safety Seats: A Guide for Families 2007. |
| Institute for Adoption Information - An Educator’s Guide to Adoption. |
| The Center for Adoption Support and Education - S.A.F.E. at School: Support for Adoptive Families by Educators. |
| “How I Explained Adoption to the First Grade,” by Amy Klatzkin (AF Mar/Apr ’01) |
| Adoptive Families Web site - Clip-and-Save Articles. |
| “Adoption in the Classroom: A Teacher Handout,” (AF Nov/Dec ’01) |
| “A Memo to My Fellow Teachers,” by Leonlida DiTomasso (AF Jan/Feb ’02) |
| AdoptUsKids.org is a tool for connecting foster and adoptive families with waiting children throughout the United States. Registration and participation on the site is FREE for home studied families and foster adoption professionals. |
| The Association for the Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children is an international coalition of professionals and families dedicated to helping those with attachment difficulties by sharing our knowledge, talents and resources. |
| Brain Place - Daniel G. Amen, MD is a child and adult psychiatrist, brain imaging specialist, and an expert in neuroscience and behavioral psychiatry. He uses Brain SPECT Imaging to diagnose brain function and is an expert on treating ADD/ADHD. |
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California
Highway Patrol – Child Safety Seats Save Lives. |
| U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, 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. |
| Children’s Research Triangle - is committed to provide research driven services that improve the quality of life for all children with special needs or those who are at risk for developmental, behavioral, psychological or educational problems. |
| The Child Trauma Academy - a not-for-profit organization based in Houston, TX is a unique collaborative of individuals and organizations working to improve the lives of high-risk children through direct service, research and education. |
| The Child Welfare Information Gateway - provides access to information and resources to protect children and strengthen families. It was formerly known as The National Adoption Information Clearinghouse (NAIC). |
| Child Welfare League of America - provides educational events, and has developed practice standards for all areas of child welfare. It lobbies and advocates for children and families on a wide range of issues, including research. |
| The Circle of Security (COS) Project - an innovative, first-of-its-kind early intervention program designed to alter the developmental pathway of parents and their young children. |
| Concerned United Birthparents (CUB) - an organization focused on adoption issues for birthparents, adoptees, adoptive parents and professionals. |
| Daniel Hughes - is a trauma/attachment therapist who trains professionals and parents to work with these special children, using Dydactic Developmental Therapy. |
| Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., pediatrician and psychiatrist, his work focuses on family interactions with an emphasis on how attachment experiences influence emotions, behavioral regulation, autobiographical memory and narrative processes. |
| The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption is a non-profit public charity dedicated to dramatically increasing the adoptions of the more than 140,000 children in North America’s foster care systems. |
| Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute - provides information about research, policy and practice updates, professional education, and other adoption related information. |
| FAIR - Adoption and the Schools: Resources for Parents and Teachers, by Lansing Wood and Nancy Ng. Available from FAIR |
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The Foster and Kinship Care Education Program at American River College
provides free parenting training for foster parents and interested non-foster
parents. ARC is proud to offer these classes on a rotating basis each year to
fulfill the State’s mandated training requirement. |
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Foster Care & Adoptive Community (FCAC) -
FCAC Online Training offers 104 courses (3 interactive) with new topics added
continuously. Complete mandated training hours from the comfort of your home.
Training online offers flexible hours.....train around your schedule. No need
for baby sitters. Courses are developed by professionals with extensive experience in the foster care arena, and most hold a Masters or Ph.D. Certificates of completion are immediately generated with the passing of 80% correct on test at the end of each course. Certificates may be emailed or downloaded from the screen to your computer, printed out and presented to your agency. Certificates are beautiful and contain your name, course title, hours credited, and date. |
| Foster Parent College - Offers online foster parent training programs. A variety of topics are offered for minimal cost. Great resource for foster, adoptive or kinship parents wishing to get certification hours or seeking additional information. |
| Foster Parent Training - Offers online training for foster/adoptive parents and professionals. Annual membership fees available for low cost. Good site; easy to use. |
| Fostering Families Today Magazine - a resource for foster and adoptive families. |
| Human Rights Campaign - advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. All Children-All Families umbrella agency. |
| Insight - Open Adoptions Resources and Support. |
| International Soundex Reunion Registry (ISRR) - a free mutual consent reunion registry that serves individuals separated from birth family through adoption, divorce, foster care, institutional care, abandonment, etc. (NOTE: "Soundex" is a search technique that finds matches even when names are not spelled correctly) |
| Kinship Center - Kinship website, including the Education Institute of Kinship Center information. |
| National Child Welfare Resource Center for Adoption - provides information to aid with special needs adoption programs as well as resources available through the NCWRCA. Also offered are web links to other helpful organizations and publications with a particular emphasis on working with special needs adoption. |
| National Court Appointed Special Advocates - (CASA) national website. |
| The National Foster Parent Association - the only national organization which strives to support foster parents, and remains a consistently strong voice on behalf of all children. |
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National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration - Save lives, prevent injuries,
reduce vehicle-related crashes. |
| The National Infertility Association - provides a support network for individuals and couples experiencing infertility. |
| National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning.- Good information on concurrent permanency planning. |
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SafetyBeltSafe U.S.A. -
was established in 1980 and is the national non-profit organization
dedicated to child passenger safety. |
| SameSame - a new CD of original songs written to celebrate, encourage and delight adoptive kids and parents alike. This site offers samples of songs and ordering information. |
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SeatCheck - is a
national campaign to help parents properly secure their children in motor
vehicles. Central to the program is a free child safety seat inspection
locator service which is available at www.seatcheck.org and toll-free at
1-866-SEAT-CHECK. In addition, the Web site offers parents and caregivers
other useful information on keeping children safe in motor vehicles. |
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Tapestry Books - Excellent resource for books and DVDs about adoption, permanency and foster care. |
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Voice for Adoption - VFA is a national organization that develops and advocates for improved adoption policies at the national level. |
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