This is not an exhaustive directory of adoption resources.  Rather, it is a list of resources personally endorsed by основные формулы Excel Lori or a BestLight client.  We ask your assistance in building this resource page at sky.pro.  Let other adopting families know when you have a fantastic experience with an adoption-related organization — submit your own .

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Agencies:

• Open Adoption & Family Services (nationwide, with offices in WA and OR)
• Adoption Connection (San Francisco)
• Lutheran Family Services of the Rocky Mountains (multiple locations)
• Lutheran Social Services of IL
• Abrazo Adoption Associates of San Antonio, TX
• Friends in Adoption (nationwide, with offices in VT and NY)
• AdoptionSTAR, authorized in NY, licensed in OH and FL, approved in CT

Publications:

• Adoptive Families
• Adoption Today
• The Adoption Guide
• Openness in Adoption Study (March, 2012)

e-Communities:

• ALI Blogroll (Adoption/neo-natal Loss/Infertility)
• Creating a Family

Adoption Blogs and Sites:

• LavenderLuz.com
• Open Adoption Bloggers (archives)
• Today’s the Day (adult adoptee from closed era, as well as adoptive mom)
• Amstel Life (first mother)
• Musings of the Lame (first mother)
• Susie Book (first mother)
• The Donaldson Adoption Institute
• America Adopts!
• Canada Adopts!

More help with profiles:

• Pitter Patter Profiles
• Gourmet Book Design by Adam Rubenstein, a birth father
• Little Blessings Adoption

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