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.
adoption Resources
Family Support & Training
Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development TBRI Practitioner List
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
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
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)
Replanted Conference (Chicago)
Books/Readings for Adults
“The Connected Child”, by Dr. Karyn Purvis and David Cross
"Toddler Adoption" by Mary Hopkins-Best
"Talking with Young Children about Adoption" by Mary Watkins, PhD and Susan Fisher, PhD
"Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew " by Sherrie Eldridge
The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child, by Nancy Newton Verrier
"The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma", by Bessel van der Kolk
"The Whole Brain Child", by Dr. Daniel Siegel
Books/Readings for Children
Young Children
"Shades Of Black: A Celebration of Our Children," by Sandra and Myles Pinkney
"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-Cabell
School-Aged Children
"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 and Teenaged Children
"In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption," by Rhonda Roorda
Blogs, Podcasts and YouTube Channels
Medical Reviews
A list of medical review providers around the United States
Adoption Related Organizations
National Council For Adoption’s 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 digital magazine
Creating a Family - an infertility and adoption education nonprofit
Government Resources for Adoption
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis
U.S. State Department
http://adoption.state.gov/
US Embassy Information http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/registration/registration
USCIS Orphan Visa Information
https://www.uscis.gov/adoption/immigration-through-adoption/orphan-process
USCIS Hague Visa Information
https://www.uscis.gov/adoption/immigration-through-adoption/hague-process
IRS Adoption Tax Credit
http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc607.html
Social Security Administration
http://www.ssa.gov/