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Jewish Adoption Information Exchange http://webassist.com/stars-of-david Contact: Susan Katz A project of Stars of David International, a support network for Jewish and partly-Jewish adoptive families. Their site has information on several national adoption organizations, personal adoption stories, contact info for Jewish Family Service agencies nationwide, and much more.
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Jewish Family and Children's Service http://www.voicenet.com/~adoption/ Contact: adoption@omni.voicenet.com Jewish Family and Children's Service has a basic Web page about their services.
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Law Offices of Stephen Ravel http://www.adopting.org/ravel.html Contact: sraal@best.com Specializes in Independent Adoptions for citizens of the USA or citizens of other countries. "In 1980 I adopted my son independently, and was familiar with the different services available to individuals and couples who choose to adopt an infant. Based upon my own experiences and my recognition that true personalized service in this area was lacking, I developed a specialized approach to assisting clients in locating birth mothers who choose to place their children for adoption."
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Lifelink http://www.lifelink.org Contact: Joan DiLeonardi A 100 year not-for-profit health and human service agency related to the United Church of Christ has a new website. They are an accredited, licensed child welfare agency that can do home studies and provide full services in Illinois and Florida. They have established relationships with agencies in Korea, the Phillipines and Hong Kong and are accredited by the Chinese government. They also handle domestic special needs including healthy Black infants.
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Limiar http://www.limiar.org Contact: limiaruse@aol.com An organization facilitating Brazilian adoption.
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Little Friends http://www.webstreet.com/cs/orphans<
/I> Contact: goris@aol.com The Little Friends website contains information on foreign adoption, orphan statistics, and activities of Little Friends, along with an expanding photo-listing of foreign orphans (especially special needs children) in need of homes. Little Friends maintains the website as a free service, and the photo-listing service is available to any adoption agencies. Little Friends mission is to promote the welfare of orphans around the world.
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Los Ninos http://www.neosoft.com/~losninos/ Contact: Jerichsen@LosNinos.org A non profit adoption agency specializing in International adoption. Licensed as a non profit agency in 1981, they have placed over 1,500 orphaned and abandoned babies and children in loving families. For questions about specific requirements or programs, send e-mail to SFoster@LosNinos.org or KShockley@LosNinos.org. Fax: 713.657.6253 Phone:713.363.2892
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New York State Department of Social Services Adoption Blue Book http://www.state.ny.us/dss/adopt/<
/B> Contact: adoption.services@dss.mailnet. state.ny.us There is information on how to adopt children from New York's foster care system and pictures of children currently needing families.
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O'Neil and Widelock http://www.thestork.com/ Contact: oandw@bak2.lightspeed.net O'Neil and Widelock are adoption attorneys in California. They handle open adoptions for adoptive couples throughout the United States.
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Open Door Adoption Agency, Inc. http://home.rose.net/~opendoor
Contact: opendoor@rose.net A Christian non-profit agency based in Thomasville Ga. that promotes adoption as the primary option for the unplanned pregnancy. In addition to domestic adoptions, they are now finding loving Christian families for orphan children from overseas. In 1995 they opened The Caring Center, a recently restored Victorian house to provide temporary placement for the birthmother if needed. They now have a photolisting of some of the waiting children.
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Pact http://www.iwe.com/pact/ Pact, An Adoption Alliance helps African-American, Latino, Asian, and multiracial children born in the US who can't be raised by their birth families. Pact is also a membership organization providing support, advocacy, education, and connection to families with adopted children of color. Their goal is for every child to feel wanted, honored, and love....a cherished member of a strong family with proud connections to the rich cultural heritage or his or her birth right. Pact provide tools to help people become more effective as parents, partners and planners.
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Placenet http://www.adopting.org/placenet.htm
l Contact: Graham Wright A matching system that lists information about waiting families. It is not an adoption agency, and does not arrange placements. Families wanting to adopt can list on the database. Adoption agencies then search the system for possible families for a child or a group of siblings.
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Plan Internation Adoption Services http://cs.gfc.edu/PLAN/ Plan is an adoption agency in Oregon. They presently arrange adoptions of children from China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Peru, Honduras, Korea, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, Russia, and Siberia.
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Precious in HIS Sight - Internet Adoption Photolisting http://precious.org/ Contact: Annette Thompson Precious in HIS Sight hosts a photolisting of children available for international adoption by any licensed US or Canadian adoption agency that would like to participate. Included on the site is a multimedia story about Annette Thompson's trip to an Ethiopian orphanage with pictures, sound clips and video clips. Also included are adoption articles by adoption expert, Pat Johnston. There is no cost to agencies or people who view the photolisting.
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Rainbow House International http://www.rhi.org/ Contact: rainbow@rhi.org An adoption agency licensed in New Mexico and Colorado. They have information online about their most of their programs in Bangladesh, China, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Korea, Latvia, Moldova, Paraguay, Per, Russia, Thailand, Vietnam.
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Seedlings, Inc., http://www.adopting.org/seedling.html
Contact: Cindy Peck Seedlings is a non-profit licensed adoption agency, founded in 1990 by Arlene Stabile, MSW, and Cynthia Peck, MA, in the State of New Jersey. Seedlings provides pre-placement services, home studies, placement services, post-placement services, post-adoption services and community awareness of the availability and needs of children who do not have families of their own.
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Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children http://www.spence-chapin.org/
Contact: info@spence-chapin.org A licensed agency which provides adoption and adoption-related services. The agency focuses on finding adoptive homes for infants and young children who need families, promoting the understanding of adoption through counseling and public education and improving adoption's image and practice.
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Texas Adoption Resource Exchange http://www.tdprs.state.tx.us/ad
option/tare.html Contact: Stewart Davis The Texas Adoption Resource Exchange was the first state to put their waiting child photolisting on the Internet. They have pictures and descriptions of children in the custody of the state who are available for adoption. This means that the cost of adopting these children is virtually nothing. HREF="mailto:stewart.davis@libra.dhs.state.tx.us">stewart.davis@libra.dhs.state.tx.us for more information.
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The Adoption Circle http://www.pacificnet.net/babies Contact: babies@pacificnet.net The Adoption Circle handles independent adoptions. The director, Nikki Biers, has worked extensively as a liaison between Birthmothers and Adopting Parents.
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The Adoption Exchange http://phoenix.uchsc.edu/rmae<
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Contact: adoptex@ix.netcom.com
The connection between families who adopt and children who wait. They are based in the Rocky Mountain region and have offices in Salt Lake City, Albuquerque and Denver. The Exchange is not an adoption agency. It is, rather, a place for the exchange of resources on behalf of dozens of adoption agencies. When an agency is unable to locate a family for a waiting child, the agency uses The Exchange services to find a family
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The Cradle http://www.cradle.org/ Contact: cradle@cradle.org A not-for-profit, non-sectarian adoption agency founded in 1923. The Cradle serves all members of the adoption circle--birth parents, adoptive parents and adopted persons.
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Universal Aid for Children, Inc. http://www.adopting.org/uac.html
Contact: uacadopt@ix.netcom.com A licensed, non-profit agency in service to children in third world countries for the past 19 years. UAC works with child placement referrals directly, or networks with other agencies based in the United States or overseas.
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