Resources for Adoptive Parents

Alberta Children Services	www.child.alberta.ca
Healthy Moms Healthy Babies	www.albertahealthservices.ca
The Adoption Council of Canada	www.adoption.ca
Adoption Month e-magazine	www.e-magazine.adoption.com
Adoptive Families Magazine	www.adoptivefamilies.com
Tapestry Books	www.tapestrybooks.com
Let’s Talk Adoption	http://www.letstalkadoption.com/

The Adoption Institute: http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/index.php
The Evan B. Donaldson Institute for Adoption – doing some excellent current research in adoption. Visit their website to subscribe to their free e-newsletter.

The North American Council on Adoptable children: www.nacac.org
The North American Council on Adoptable Children – this organization hosts a terrific annual Training Conference, promotes the adoption of waiting children, can give you info about subsidy, advocacy, etc.

Adoption Learning Partners: www.adoptionlearningpartners.org
Site that provides courses for adoptive parents on topics like attachment, talking about adoption, trans-racial, international, etc.

The Family Helper: www.familyhelper.net
A site to find all the adoption resources in Canada, agencies, governments, international facilitators, support groups, etc.

Children’s Books:
Beginnings: How Families Come to Be -by Virginia Kroll

Did My First Mother Love Me? - by Kathryn Ann Miller

Pugnose has Two Special Families - by Karis Kruzel

Place in My Heart - By Mary Grossnickle

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