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Adoption and Foster Care Basics:

  • Learn About Adoption
  • Older Child Adoption
  • International Adoption Assistance
  • Interstate Issues in Adoption Assistance
  • Intercountry Adoptee Citizenship
  • Aging Out
  • Intercountry Adoptee Citizenship
  • LGBTQ Children and Youth
  • Parental Rights
  • Ten Tips for Supporting Your Family and Friends in Adoptive Families
  • How Using Risk and Protective Factors Improves Outcomes for Children
  • How to Adopt FAQ
  • Eligibility and Benefits for Federal (Title IV-E) Adoption Assistance
  • Negotiating Adoption Assistance/Adoption Subsidy Agreements
  • Renegotiating Adoption Assistance/Adoption Subsidy Agreements
  • Fair Hearings and Appeals in Adoption Assistance
  • Guidelines for Terminating Adoption Assistance Agreements
  • Tax Issues Related to Adoption Assistance and Adoption
  • Obtaining Adoption Assistance/Adoption Subsidies after Adoption Finalization
  • Child Support Payments and Title IV-E Adoption Assistance
  • Adoption Assistance Definitions
  • Talking to Children about Adoption Assistance
  • Who to contact if adoption assistance payment is late.Opens in a new tab
  • Adoption Assistance & Financial Programs: Understanding Interactions

Parenting Resources:

  • General Parenting Resources
  • Advice for Adoptive Parents
  • Nine Qualities of Adoptive Parents
  • Parenting Children or Youth Who Are Sexually Reactive
  • Self-Care for Adoptive Parents
  • Successful Foster/Adoptive Parents
  • 3-5-7 Model to Work Through Grief
  • Bonding with a Child in Foster Care or Adoption
  • Helping Your Child with Grief and Loss
  • Healing from Food Insecurity
  • Self-Care Barriers for Adoptive Parents
  • Adoption and Schools
  • Education Tip Sheet
  • Teaching Youth Leadership Qualities
  • How to Cover College Expenses for Your Child Adopted from Foster Care

Parenting Challenges:

  • Supporting Maltreated Children
  • Value of Adoption Groups in Supporting Families
  • What Happens to Assistance if Adoptive Parents Die?
  • Disruption Support
  • Stealing

Transracial and Cultural Identity:

  • Transracial Parenting
  • Being Anti-Racist: Supporting Children of Color
  • Seven Tasks for Parents
  • Transracial Adoption Conversations (T.R.A.C.) Coaching: Engaging Transracial Adoptive Caregivers in Conversations on Race and Meeting Children’s Racial Identity Needs Over the Lifespan

Family Dynamics and Relationship Building:

  • Adoption Sibling Relationships
  • Ambiguous Loss for Foster and Adopted Children
  • Co-parenting or Shared Parenting
  • Relationships and Sexuality
  • Helping Children Connect with Birth Parents
  • Facilitated Openness in Adoption

Coping with Disorders and Developmental Challenges:

  • GFCF Diet
  • The Teen Years: Brain Development and Trauma Recovery
  • More Disabilities and Challenges Resources

Legal and Systemic Resources:

  • Child Support Enforcement and Residential Treatment
  • False Allegations

Health and Well-being:

  • Silent Suffering: Responding to Self-Harm
  • Hard Conversations, Brave Families: Supporting Children in Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Homes After Violent NewsOpens in a new tab
  • Helping Kids Survive and Thrive in Winter
  • Retrace Developmental Stages for Healing
  • Science of Parent-Child Relationships
  • Understanding Behavior Conversations
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