| Adoption Community of New England |
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| 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 |
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| Adoption Connection has been a fully licensed, non-profit adoption agency since 1985. Adoption Connection is licensed to work with birthparents throughout the United States and adoptive parents in 19 counties in Northern California. |
| Adoption Laws in the U.S. Map |
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From the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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| Adoption Resources from HRC |
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| The information in this database is the result of a national survey of adoption agencies and is intended to help you identify a welcoming agency. |
| Adoption Resources from the Child Welfare Infomration Gateway |
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| 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 relatives; and resources for professionals on recruiting adoptive families, preparing children and youth, supporting birth parents, and providing postadoption services. |
| AdoptUsKids |
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| Not LGBT specific. The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids is a project of The Children’s Bureau, part of the Federal Department of Health and Human Services. In October 2002, The Children’s Bureau contracted with The Adoption Exchange Association and its partners (The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids) to devise and implement a national adoptive family recruitment and retention strategy, operate the AdoptUsKids.org website, encourage and enhance adoptive family support organizations and conduct a variety of adoption research projects. |
| Coalition for Adoption Rights Equality |
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| The Coalition for Adoption Rights Equality, Inc. (CARE) is 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 |
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| A national nonprofit adoption exchange providing adoption support and education to pre/post adoptive families and professionals that provide permanent families for adoptable children in the US foster care system. While our emphasis is with gay and lesbian adoptive families, we welcome and encourage the diversity of all family structures. |
| Friends in Adoption |
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| Friends In Adoption is a non-profit, licensed open/compassionate agency whose goal is to help people make informed decisions about adoption. FIA works with both those interested in adopting and with pregnant women/couples considering placing their children with adoptive families. |
| Independent Adoption Center |
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| The Independent Adoption Center (IAC) is a non-profit, full-service adoption agency focused on infant domestic adoptions. The agency promotes completely open adoptions with a comprehensive set of services for both birth and adoptive families. The IAC also provides homestudy services for both domestic and international adoptions. |
| Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE) |
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| The Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange (MARE) finds adoptive parents for children in foster care. Potential parents, including singles, couples, GLBTQ, are encouraged to call 800-882-1176 or 617-54-ADOPT to learn about the children who are waiting for a loving, dependable family, and the process of adoption from foster care. |
| MedlinePlus Adoption Information |
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| From the U.S. National Institutes of Health. |
| National Adoption Center |
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Not LGBT specific.
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| National Foster Care and Adoption Directory |
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Not LGBT specific.
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| North American Council on Adoptable Children |
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| Open Adoption and Family Services |
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| We are a private, non-profit adoption agency with a progressive approach to building healthy families. Our agency is committed to facilitating child-centered open adoptions in which birthparents and adoptive families create healthy long-term relationships that address the ongoing needs of children. It is our hope that every adoption through OA&FS exceeds the child’s need for information, validation, acceptance and support. |
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| Pact, An Adoption Alliance |
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| Pact's founders and small staff have dedicated themselves to the mission of providing the highest quality adoption-related services to children of color, their birth parents and their adoptive parents. |
| Promote Permanency: Resist the Trend to Restrict LGBT Parenting |
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An article for the North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) by Kara Suffredini, a legislative lawyer with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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| Second-Parent Adoption Laws in the U.S. Map |
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From the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
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| Selected Articles on Transracial/Transcultural Adoption |
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| From the New York State Citizens' Coalition for Children. |
