- Adoption Community of New England Adoption Community of New England, Inc. was incorporated as a non-profit membership organization in 1967. Known for 34 years as Open Door Society of Massachusetts, Inc., its goals and services have expanded to include all those touched by adoption.
- Adoption Connection Adoption Connection is one of the first, and longest-running, open adoption agencies in the country. Co-Director Lynne Fingerman, MSW, co-founded the agency in 1985.
- Adoption Laws in the U.S. Map From the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
- Adoption Resources from HRC
- Adoption Resources from the Child Welfare Information Gateway From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Resources on all aspects of domestic and intercountry adoption, including adoption from foster care. Includes information for prospective and adoptive parents; information about searching for birth re
- AdoptUsKids The mission of AdoptUsKids is to recruit and connect foster and adoptive families with waiting children throughout the United States.
- All Children – All Families A program from HRC that maintains a list of adoption agencies committed to welcoming the LGBT community.
- Coalition for Adoption Rights Equality A children’s advocacy group working to secure the legal recognition of parent-child relationships in all families regardless of the parents’ marital status or sexual orientation.
- Families Like Ours The premier national independent, nonprofit 501(c)3 Adoption Exchange. We welcome the diversity of all pre and post adoptive-foster families so they can be permanent families for children in the US foster care system.
- Friends in Adoption A non-profit, non-traditional, licensed agency whose goal is to help people make informed decisions concerning adoption.
- Independent Adoption Center
- Intercountry Adoption: GLBT Adoption From the U.S. Department of State
- It's Conceivable Pregnancy and parenting information.
- Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE) MARE exists to find “a place to call home” for children in foster care, including sibling groups and children who are traditionally harder to place. We do this by recruiting, educating, supporting and advocating for families throughout the adoption proces
- MedlinePlus Adoption Information From the U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health
- National Adoption Center Free adoptive services: Public Awareness and Recruitment, Information and Referral and Publications. The National Adoption Center opposes any federal or state legislation as well as foster care and adoption agency policies that restrict or dismiss the con
- National Foster Care and Adoption Directory From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families.
- Navigating LGBT Adoption A free guide from Ethica
- New Family Social UK charity for LGBT adopters, foster carers and their children
- North American Council on Adoptable Children NACAC promotes and supports permanent families for children and youth in the U.S. and Canada who have been in care—especially those in foster care and those with special needs.
- Open Adoption and Family Services Open Adoption & Family Services, Inc. is a private, nonprofit adoption agency with a progressive approach to building healthy families. With offices in Portland, Eugene, Medford and Seattle, OA&FS is licensed by the states of Oregon and Washington
- Open Adoption Support We are here to support families who are living in or working towards or living with openness in their own family’s adoptions or in adoption in general.
- Pact, An Adoption Alliance We believe that in making an adoption plan, birth parents and adoptive parents enter into an agreement to recognize and protect the best interests of the child.
- Promote Permanency: Resist the Trend to Restrict LGBT Parenting An essay by attorney Kara S. Suffredini, published by the North American Council on Adoptable Children
- Selected Articles on Transracial/Transcultural Adoption And more, from the New York State Citizens’ Coalition for Children
