Agape Adoptions
  • Home
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Testimonials
    • Staff Team
    • Employment
  • Adoption Programs
    • Adoption Programs
    • Bulgaria
    • China
    • Dominican Republic
    • Hong Kong
    • Romania
    • Uganda
  • Home Studies
    • Home Studies
    • Home Study Agencies
  • Waiting Children
  • Resources
  • Donate
  • More
    • Home
    • About Us
      • Contact Us
      • Testimonials
      • Staff Team
      • Employment
    • Adoption Programs
      • Adoption Programs
      • Bulgaria
      • China
      • Dominican Republic
      • Hong Kong
      • Romania
      • Uganda
    • Home Studies
      • Home Studies
      • Home Study Agencies
    • Waiting Children
    • Resources
    • Donate

Agape Adoptions

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Adoption Programs
  • Home Studies
  • Waiting Children
  • Resources
  • Donate

financial resources

Agape Adoptions provides a FREE Personalized Adoption Finance Coaching Service with a customized adoption finance plan for our adopting families. This Service offers webinars, training videos and consultations with a coach help you create an adoption budget, and learn about fundraising, grants and more!


 According to the YAFC service,"Families that use Kelly's system of Tools to Finance Your Adoption, Grant Writing, Special Events and more, typically raise between $5,000 and $15,000 for their adoptions."


Click here to learn more about Adoption Finance Coaching Services. Once a family is accepted to Agape Adoptions, we will set you up with the Coaching Services.


A federal tax credit is available to eligible families. Visit https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc607 (or look up IRS tax topic 607) to learn more. 

image192

school resources for adoptive families

What Teachers Should Know About Adoption (pdf)Download
Adoption Awareness in School Assignments (pdf)Download
Adoption Basics for Educators (pdf)Download

adoption Resources

Teen boy adopted from China

Family Support & Training

Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development TBRI Practitioner List


The Post Institute: The founders of the Post Institute are passionate about helping parents create healing from the wounds created by trauma, by providing parents an understanding of the impact of trauma and a proven effective, unique model of parenting.


Free Resources from the Child Trauma Academy  (Dr. Bruce Perry)


Show Hope Pre & Post Placement Support Resources


Attachment & Trauma Network


C.A.S.E.: Improving the lives of children who have been adopted or in foster care and their families through counseling, lifelong education, and a growing national network of trained professionals


Nurturing Attachments: a website that provides free articles and videos from Dr. Deborah Gray


Community Care (Seattle): A children’s mental health agency that has provided care for youth and families in the Seattle area since 1997. Provides youth and family psychotherapy, behavior plan writing, one to one behavior specialists, and three seasonal special needs camps.


Empowered to Connect Conference (Nationwide Simulcasts)


ReFresh Conference (WA)


Replanted Conference (Chicago)


Insight Conference (Indianapolis)

Blogs, Podcasts and YouTube Channels

Blogs, Podcasts and YouTube Channels

Blogs, Podcasts and YouTube Channels

image193

No Hands But Ours

Love Without Boundaries - Realistic Expectations

Honestly Adoption Podcast by Confessions of an Adoptive Parent

Empowered Parent Podcast

Yes, I'm Adopted, Don't Make It Weird YouTube Channel Playlist

Government Resources for Adoption

Blogs, Podcasts and YouTube Channels

Blogs, Podcasts and YouTube Channels

image194

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services 

U.S. State Department  

US Embassy Information 

USCIS Orphan Visa Information 

USCIS Hague Visa Information 

IRS Adoption Tax Credit 

Social Security Administration 

Adoption Related Organizations

Adoption Related Organizations

Adoption Related Organizations

image195

National Council for Adoption, an organization whose  mission is to meet the diverse needs of children, birth parents, adopted individuals, adoptive families, and all those touched by adoption through global advocacy, education, research, legislative action, and collaboration. 

Adoption.com 

Adoptive Families 

Creating a Family, an infertility and adoption education nonprofit.

Medical Reviews

Adoption Related Organizations

Adoption Related Organizations

image196

A  list of medical review providers around the United States

http://sparrow-fund.org/how-we-serve/grants/providers

Books/Readings for Adults

image197

“The Connected Child”

Dr. Karyn Purvis and David Cross

image198

"Toddler Adoption" 

Mary Hopkins-Best

image199

"The Whole Brain Child"

Dr. Daniel Siegel

image200

"Parenting Your Internationally Adopted Child, From Your First Hours Together Through the Teen Years"

Patty Cogen

image201

"The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family "

Thomas Atwood & Jayne Schooler

image202

"Talking with Young Children about Adoption"

Mary Watkins, PhD & Susan Fisher, PhD 

image203

"Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew " 

Sherrie Eldridge

image204

The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child

Nancy Newton Verrier


image205

"The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma"

Bessel van der Kolk

image206

"Self-Reg: How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life," 

Dr. Stuart Shanker

image207

"The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment"

Lisa Qualls and Dr. Karyn Purvis

image208

"Raising Resilient Children : Fostering Strength, Hope, and Optimism in Your Child"

Robert Brooks & Sam Goldstein

Books/Readings for Children

Young Children

High School / Teenaged Children

School-Aged Children

image209

"Shades Of Black: A Celebration of Our Children," by Sandra and Myles Pinkney

"Baby Faces," by DK 

"It’s Ok to be Different," by Todd Parr

"The Skin You Live In" by Michael Tyler

"All Bears Need Love," by Tanya Valentine

"The Little Green Goose," by Adele Sansone

"Mixed Liked Me" by Gina Golliday-Cabel

School-Aged Children

High School / Teenaged Children

School-Aged Children

image210

"Let’s Talk About Race" by Julius Lester

"Shades of People<" by Shelly Rotner

"My Hair is a Garden," by Cozbi A. Cabrera

"Ruth and the Green Book," by Calvin Alexander Ramsey

High School / Teenaged Children

High School / Teenaged Children

High School / Teenaged Children

image211

"In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption," by Rhonda Roorda

"Dear Martin," by Nic Stone

"The Hate U Give," by Angie Thomas

"All American Boys," by Brendan Kiely & Jason Reynolds

"Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You," by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Quick Links for Agape Families

Complaint Policy 96.41 (a-g) (pdf)Download

Copyright © 2017 Agape Adoption
All Rights Reserved.

Powered by GoDaddy

  • Home
  • Contact Us
  • Staff Team
  • Adoption Programs
  • Home Studies
  • Waiting Children
  • Resources
  • Donate
  • Post Adoption