Resources
To help prepare you for your adoption
Related Organizations and Resources
- Adoption Support Free Education Resources and Links
- AdoptUSKids
- The how-to-adopt and adoption parenting network
- Adoption Today and Fostering Families Today reading library
- American Academy of Pediatrics Trauma Guide – Helping foster and adoptive families cope with trauma
- American Adoption Congress
- Child Welfare Information Gateway
- National Adoption Center
- National Center on Adoption and Permanency
- North American Council on Adoptable Children
- Pact, An Adoption Alliance
- Tapestry Books – Your complete source for adoption books and resources
- CHADD – The National Resource on ADHD
- Autism Scholarship
- Children with Medical Handicaps Program
- CWI Gateway publications
- Dave Thomas Foundation
- Disability Rights Ohio
- Kids Health from Nemours
- National Resource Center for Patient/Family-Centered Medical Home
- Ohio Coalition for Education of Children with Disabilities
- Ohio Minds Matter
Links listed by the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption:
Games For Adoptive Families
- The Ungame: Noncompetitive game that opens up the lines of communication for a serious exchange of thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
- LifeStories: Noncompetitive game that encourages the players to talk about their past experiences, hopes, and dreams for the future. Good for all ages.
- Totika: Designed to increase self-esteem and enhance life skills. Uses blocks much like Jenga, combined with cards that ask questions and get kids talking.
- Game from Courage To Change – therapeutic tools for all stages of life. Thumball: Game for younger children. Transforms a game of catch into stimulating conversation and communication.
Resource Suggestions from Kristin Berry, Confessions of an Adoptive Parent
- National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
- Beyond Consequences Logic and Control, by Heather T. Forbes
- The Connected Child, by Karyn Purvis
- The Mystery of Risk: Drugs, Alcohol, Pregnancy, and the Vulnerable Child, by Ira J. Chasnoff MD
- Moment to Moment: Teens Growing Up With FASDs, DVD by Ira J. Chasnoff MD
- Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health
- NTI Upstream
