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Adoption Advocates Internationalhttp://www.lbee.com/aai/ Contact: aai@olympus.net A licensed adoption agency that believes every child deserves a home. Their website includes a photolisting of waiting children. AAI's focus is to provide permancy for children who, because of special circumstances, would have difficulty finding adoptive parents. These are most often children with medical problems, premature babies, malnourished babies, children with handicapping conditions, older children and children in large sibling groups (3 or more). Healthy infants are also available.
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Adoption Associates, Inc http://www.adoptassoc.com/ Contact: adopt@adoptassoc.com Michigan's leading agency in domestic infant adoption, and a highly experienced and reliable resource for international adoption.
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Adoption Center of Northern California http://www.adopting.org/nanci.html Contact: nrwadopt@quiknet.com A website for Nanci R. Worcester, who is an adoption attorney as well as an adoptive mom with two children in open adoptions. You can get more information by calling (916) 888-1311 or toll free: 1-800-5ADOPT1 (1-800-523-6781).
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Adoption for All Children http://www.pageplus.com/~dineen/aac/index.html Contact: Paul Dineen A licensed, private, professional adoption agency based in Berthoud, Colorado.
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Adoption from India http://www.adoptionconsulting.com
Adoption Consulting Services provide valuable assistance to the families in the United States desiring to adopt Indian Bornchildren from newborn to 6 years old.<P> Adoption Consulting Services provides problem-solving assistance and information about the challenges of adoption to individuals and families. ACS seeks to create opportunities for successful adoptive placement and promotes the health and welfare of children without permanent families in India.
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Adoption Law Center of Beverly Hills http://www.adopting.org/adoption.ht
ml Contact: David Leavitt A site about domestic independent adoptions done by attorney, David Keene Leavitt. His adoption-only law practice helps families wishing to adopt and birth parents wishing to make an adoption plan for their child.
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Adoption Law Offices of linda E. F. Lach http://www.youcanadopt.com Contact: Linda E. F. Lach Law office devoted to adoption and surrogacy, assisting adoptive parents, birth parents and those interested in surrogacy. Can work with people from all states and countries through national and international consultation. Specializing in "The Adoption YOU Want".
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Adoption Law Offices of Linda E. F. Lach http://www.youcanadopt.com
Contact: Linda E. F. Lach
Law office devoted to adoption and surrogacy, assisting adoptive parents, birth parents and those interested in surrogacy. Can work with people from all states and countries through national and international consultation. Specializing in "The Adoption YOU Want". No cost for initial consultation.
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Adoption Referral Associates http://www.pond.com/~adoptusa They publish an Adoption Agency Directory that may be purchased from their site
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Adoption Services International http://www.adopting.org/asi.html<
/B> Contact: asicas@aol.com It was founded by adoptive parents in 1984 and handles licensed international adoptions throughout the State of California.
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Adoptions Together, Inc. http://www.thomtech.com/mmedia/ford/ati/ati.htm Contact: adoptintl@aol.com A licensed, non-profit agency that works in both domestic and international adoption. They have a small photolisting of children in Russia awaiting adoption.
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African Cradle, Inc. http://www.adoption.com/ethiopia/ Contact: ACI@ValentineStudio.com ACI is a private, non-profit adoption facilitator which works directly with the Ethiopian government to place children for adoption. They can be reached at (209) 575-1980.
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All About Adoptions, Inc. http://www.iu.net/adopt/ Contact: grassadopt@aol.com A licensed Florida adoption agency founded in 1993 to assist families in adopting children domestically and internationally.
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Alliance Adoption Servicehttp://www.adoptions.org Contact: Stevan Karanovich They are a service that works with an attorney rather than an agency. They do adoptions of Eastern European and Russian children.
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Alliance For Children http://www.adoption.com/alliance Contact: Dragos Vranceanu An adoption agency helping find permanent homes for children from Ecuador, China and Romania. AFC's web site provides valuable information to prospective adoptive parents interested in adopting a child from any of these countries such as a list of qualifications, personal adoption stories, and links to other Web sites.
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American Association of Open Adoption Agencies http://www.openadoption.org
Contact: Bill Betzen
Non-profit Adoption Agencies Committed To Adoption Services Of The Highest Quality. The purpose of this site is to give you the best information possible about adoption, and to help you connect with AAOAA member agencies in your area.
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Americans for African Adoptions http://www.africanadoptions.org
Contact: Cheryl Shotts They place African children worldwide.
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Americans for International Aid and Adoption http://pomo.nbn.com/home/homestayrussia/russianadoption.html Contact: afiaa@igc.apc.org A site dedicated to adoption from Russia. AIAA also has International adoption programs in China, South Korea, Vietnam and India
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Bethany Christian Services http://www.bethany.org/betha
ny/adoption.html Contact: Judi Hengeveld Offers both domestic and international adoption services and they have their own Web site (the first adoption agency to do this). They also have an interesting page on what the Bible says about adoption.
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Bufete Rodiguez-Contreras http://www.adopting.org/honduras.ht
ml Contact: Contreras de Rodriguez and Conrado E. Rodriguez A law firm specializing in Honduran Adoptions . The law firm partners are Ruth Contreras de Rodriguez and Conrado E. Rodriguez. The mother-son team are located in Honduras and are fully accredited by the Honduran Bar Association.
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Child and Family Adoption Services Society http://www.maple.net/ads-online/CFAS/cfas.html Contact: Michaele-Sue Goldblatt CFAS - places both domestic and international children with Canadian families. There web site contains information about their parenting preparation course and some basic information about their international adoption program.
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Child Welfare League of America http://www.handsnet.org/cwla/
Child Welfare League of America make available abstracts of articles from the electronic journal HandsNet, which periodically contain items of interest to adoption professionals. You can subscribe to receive a free e-mail version of the journal.
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Children with Aids Project http://www.aidskids.org/index.html Contact: Jim Jenkins They recruit families to adopt HIV children, AIDS Orphans and drug addicted infants and refer them to private homes and public adoption agencies around the United States. Additionally, they locate HIV infants and children as well as AIDS Orphans, who need homes, from all over the United States. Make sure to read the heartwarming story about their own experiences adopting two infants who tested postive for HIV at birth!
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Children's Adoption Network http://www.adoptionagencies.org/can Contact: Connie Foster This is a site provided by The Association of American Nonprofit Adoption Agencies. There are photos and descriptions of children available for adoption through any of their member agencies. Parents simply contact the agency closest to them.
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Children's Home Society of Minnesota http://www.chsm.com/ Contact: chsm@winternet.com Their site has information on their international adoption programs in many countries, open adoption for birth parents, waiting American child program (special needs), homestudy services, and Korean tours with an adoption focus.
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Chinese Children Adoption International http://www.sni.net/ccai/ CCAI is a licensed child placement agency specializing in China adoption service. Founded by Lily Nie, CCAI distinguishes itself with its dedicated professional Chinese and American staff who are able to provide child placement, cross-cultural, linguistic and legal services.
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Christian World Adoption http://www.sims.net/organiz
ations/cwa/cwa.html A non-profit international child placement agency that places children in families throughout the United States. They have a photolisting of waiting children in various countries
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Christian World Adoption http://www.cwa.org/ Contact: Lynn Rathbun Christian World Adoption places God's children in good homes throughout the United States. We have adoption programs in at least 6 countries, including Russia, China, Ukraine, Bolivia, Mexico and Guatemala.
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Christian World Adoption http://www.sims.net/organizations/cwa/cwa.html A non-profit international child placement agency that places children in families throughout the United States. They have a photolisting of waiting children in various countries.
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Deaf Adoption News Service http://www.erols.com/berke/deafchildren.html Contact: Jamie Berke A photolisting of deaf/hard of hearing foreign children that are available for adoption.To subscribe to the Deaf Adoption News Service (DANS) which is a text based email mailing list of deaf/hard of hearing foreign children that are available for adoption, contact Jamie Berke at sberke@netcom.com.
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Eagle Village Adoption Service http://www.netonecom.net/~eag
le/adopt.html Contact: eagle@netonecom.net The link between children who need a family and families wanting to adopt. They help children from all over the state of Michigan connect with Michigan adoptive families and serve as liaison between the various agencies and courts involved in an adoption. They have a photolisting on this site of some of the children waitng for homes.
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East-West Concepts, Inc. http://world.std.com Contact: staff@world.std.com Also knwon asthe American Hungarian Adoption Center, has been facilitating Hungarian adoptions since 1989. You can view a photolisting of available children from Hungary.
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European Adoption Consultants (E.A.C.) http://www.eaci.com/ Contact: eaci@ix.netcom.com A licensed adoption agency, located in the State of Ohio. E.A.C. assists in the adoption of children by qualified families throughout the United States. E.A.C. provides pre- and post- adoption services for clients to facilitate international placements of legally orphaned and abandoned children.
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Faces of Adoption: America's Waiting Children http://www.inetcom.net/adopt/ Contact: Sue Flaxman a service of the National Adoption Center (NAC) and Children Awaiting Parents (CAP) that provides color photolistings and descriptions of special needs American children who are available for adoption. Faces of Adoption also offers a wealth of adoption-related information.
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Familles sans Frontieres http://www.planet.ch/~fsf/ Contact: fsf@planet.ch A Swiss Foundation devoted to helping children and promoting adoption. It was founded on October 26, 1992 by a small group of people wishing to help destitute children in poor countries that lack the support of a family. This desire led to a series of concrete actions undertaken in Madagascar. Familles sans Frontières is a charitable foundation whose members are all100% volunteers. It is fully licensed by Malagasy authorities as a charitable non-governmental organization.
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Family Builders http://www.adopting.org/Fami
ly_Builders.html Contact: homes4kids@aol.com A special needs agency, handling adoptions for nine Northern California counties at no cost to the adopting family.
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Family Network, Inc. http://www.adopting.org/family.html Contact: TFamNet@aol.com A non-profit, tax-exempt agency with offices in Missouri, Illinois, and California and an orphanage in Guatemala City. International adoption from the following countries: China, Guatemala, Russia, Paraguay, India, and Thailand.
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Florida Adoption Program http://www.state.fl.us/cf_web/adopt/
Contact: dbar@44mag.vistech.net A photolisting of children available for adoption in the state of Florida.
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Future Families http://www.adopting.org/Future
Families.html Contact: FutureFams@aol.com A nonprofit clinical adoption and foster care agency, providing extensive supportive and treatment services to children in the foster care system who cannot return to their birth parents. They are located in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Gladney Center http://www.gladney.org/ Contact: info@gladney.org A non-sectarian, state licensed adoption agency committed to creating brighter futures through adoption. Since 1887, The Gladney Center has placed more than 23,000 children in forever homes and served more than 35,000 birth mothers.
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Global Adoption Services http://www.adopting.org/gas.html
Contact: Joyce Volsky Global Adoption Services is an adoption agency in Wyoming that specializes in placing Russian children. It grew out of the humanitarian relief work that Dr. Volsky and his wife, Joyce, began in 1992.They operated a medical exchange/ humanitanan relief project with Global Maternal Child Health Association, Inc. in Nizhny Novgorod. Russia. During the two years that they lived and worked in Russia, over two million dollars in humanitarian aide was shipped to Russian maternity and children's hospitals.
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Global Adoption Services, Inc. http://www.adopting.org/glo.html
Contact: rector@online.ru An international agency handling adoption from Russia, with offices in both the USA and Russia. There is also a program for those with completed dossiers.
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Growing Families, Inc. http://www.thesphere.com/~gfi/gfi2
.html A non-profit adoption agency licensed by the State of New Jersey. The purpose of the agency is to provide child placement services , including pre and post adoption services to the adoption triad - child, adoptive parents and birth parents. The Executive Director of the agency, Rose M. Santiago-Averbach, MSW , adoptive mother and sibling, is committed to serving the needs of children and their families.
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Guide to Texas Adoptions http://www.flash.net/~bbates/adop
tion.htm Contact: Gerald A. Bates Texas adoption attorney Gerald A. Bates advises adoptive parents on Texas adoption law and how to choose an adoption attorney and adoption agency. Due to flexible state residency requirements, Mr. Bates has handled adoptions in and out of Texas, including international adoptions. By representing both parents and agencies, Mr. Bates has a perspective of both sides.
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Guide to Texas Adoptions http://www.flash.net/~bbates/adoption
Contact: Gerald A. Bates Texas adoption attorney Gerald A. Bates advises adoptive parents on Texas adoption law and how to choose an adoption attorney and adoption agency. Due to flexible state residency requirements, Mr. Bates has handled adoptions in and out of Texas, including international adoptions. By representing both parents and agencies, Mr. Bates has a perspective of both sides.
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Heart International Adoption Services http://www.ioweb.com/heart4kids/ Contact: mkwm39a@prodigy.com An extensive web site covering their programs in Eastern Europe, Bolivia, China, and Armenia.
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Hearts and Homes for Children http://www.marketworld.co
m/adopt/idx_hh.htm A private nonprofit agency licensed by the state of Florida specializing in, but not limited to, inter-country adoptions
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Help The Children http://www.adopting.org/htc.html
Contact: htc1@delphi.com A private, not-for-profit, adoptive-parent-led corporation specializing in the preparation and support of families and single persons wishing to adopt from the United States and several countries around the world.
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Holt International Children's Services http://www.holtintl.org/ Contact: Barry Stater-West Offers information about their international adoption and child sponsorship programs. Holt also has descriptions on the several books on adoption that they offer.
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Independent Adoption Center http://www.webcom.com/~nfediac/ Contact: brappapo@earthlink.com The largest nonprofit, nationwide adoption agency in USA (West Coast, Midwest, and East Coast). They provide tons of information about open adoption for both adoptive parents, birthparents, and agencies. There is a reading list on open adoption, birthmother stories, adoptive parent stories, some great articles such as "Getting Off the Medical Treadmill" and "Loving and Bonding with an Adopted Baby", how to write a "Dear Birthmother" letter, and much more. In addition, they have recently added a new feature to their site: the results of two years of surveys of adoption agencies about various laws and regulations in their state for doing interstate adoptions and working with the ICPC (Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children). It lists, state by state, who should be contacted in each state, addresses, phone numbers, hours of operation, rules, and procedures, etc.
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Innovative Adoptions, Inc. http://henge1.henge.com/~wendy/
Contact: Wendy Somer is a non-profit licensed child placement agency started by an adoptive mother. They place primarily healthy caucasian and bi-racial newborns with families who reside throughout the U.S.
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International Adoption Association, Inc. http://www.webcreations.com/adopt/ Contact: Larissa N. Popova a non-profit Michigan agency that has programs in Russia and Belarus (now an independent state, borders with Russia, Ukraine, Poland). Both programs were started and have been successfully directed by Larissa N. Popova.
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International Adoption Law Center http://members.gnn.com/adoptlaw/ Contact: adoptlaw@aol.com Provides adoption placement, legal representation, and travel escort to prospective parents who seek to adopt a foreign born child. The Law Center specializes in Eastern European adoption. Leslie A. Margolies, Esq. is the Chief Attorney.
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International Assistance and Adoption Project http://www.chattanooga.net/iaap/ia
ap.htm Contact: iaap@chattanooga.net A non-profit adoption agency located in Signal Mountain, TN. They provide adoption services for families wishing to adopt children from Vietnam and China. Their web site included information on their programs.
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