LINKS TO WEB RESOURCES

Adoption Web Resources:

Adoption Web Resources

Financing Adoption

Government Web Resources - Including Tax Credit Information

Medical Information Web Resources

Partner Agencies

Pregnancy Web Resources

About.com Guide to Adoption
Provides information, resources, and community for all connected to adoption: seeking to adopt, adoptees, adoptive parents - and access to thousands of resources addressing all aspects of adoption.

Adopting.org
Comprehensive, general adoption information.

Adoption Learning Partners
Adoption Learning Partners, founded by The Cradle, seeks to improve adoption outcomes for all members of the adoption circle by providing a vibrant, innovative, educational resource on the internet.

Adoption.com
Comprehensive adoption information and resources

Adoptive Families.com
This web site contains expanded Adoptive Families magazine content, secure on-line bookstore, searchable databases for adoption agencies, adoption attorneys and adoptive parent support groups.

Dossier Express
Dossier Express is a dossier preparation service for prospective adoptive parents creating a Forever Family through International Adoption.

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Families with Children from China (FCC)
FCC is a nondenominational organization of families who have adopted children from China. The purpose of FCC is provide a network of support for families who've adopted in China and to provide information to prospective parents. The purpose of this site is to consolidate the information that has been put together by the families of FCC, in order to make it easier for future parents to consider adopting from China. And also try to provide pointers to other adoption and China related resources available on the Web.

Families for Russian and Ukrainian Adoption (FRUA)
It is the mission of FRUA to support the whole life experience of Eastern European orphan children and to strengthen the families that are created through adoption.

International Adoption Alliance
A national adoption support and advocacy organization for international and domestic adoptive families.

Joint Council International Children's Services (JCICS)
Joint Council on International Children's Services is one of the oldest and largest affiliation of licensed, non-profit international adoption organizations in the world. Their membership includes adoption agencies, child welfare organizations, parent support groups and medical specialists with an interest in intercountry adoption.

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Lutheran Adoption Network
Lutheran Adoption Network provides endless resources of knowledge throughout the adoption process, provides a proven orientation and training package that has been tested and implemented nationwide, and ensures the ongoing success of your adoptive relationship with your child.

National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
A comprehensive resource on all aspects of adoption, including infant, intercountry, and special needs adoption.

National Council for Adoption (NCFA)
The NCFA is a 501(C)(3) charity that has one goal in mind - to help as many children as possible find permanent homes through adoption.

Phrases for Children
This website was started by an adoptive parent who sells CD's to teach basic Cyrillic language "children's phrases" to adoptive parents - available in Bulgarian, and Ukrainian/Russian.

Financing Adoption Web Resources:

A Child Waits Foundation
A loan organization; $10,000 loans payable over 3 years at 5%

Affording Adoption
A general website with lots of links to other helpful sites.

Brittany's Hope
An agency that gives grant money for special needs children submitted to them.

Family Legacies
An agency that provides interest free loans to Christian couples.

Fore Adoption Foundation
PGA Tour player and adoptive father, Kirk Triplett and his wife, Cathi, have established the ForeAdoption Foundation to provide grants to adoptive parents. These may be used for adoption expenses, or to start savings accounts for their child's education.

Gift of Adoption Fund
The Gift of Adoption Fund provides assistance in the form of a one-time grant. This grant provides that final needed amount, individual to each applicant, that enables parents and child to become - finally, a family.

Government Web Resources:

Adoption Tax Credit Information
IRS publication on the Adoption Tax Credit. (adobe acrobat file)

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Chinese Embassy
The official web site of the Embassy of the People's Republic of China

Mongolian Embassy
Embassy of Mongolia to the U.S.A.

Philippine Embassy
The official web site of the Embassy of the Republic of the Philippines

Russian Embassy
The official web site of the Embassy of the Russian Federation

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US State Department - Bureau of Consular Affairs
To administer laws, formulate regulations and implement policies relating to the broad range of consular services provided to American citizens abroad.

US State Department - Passport Services and Information
U.S. State Department - passport services, news and information.

IRS Tax Credit Information:

Medical Information Web Resources:

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All Language Alliance
A source for international adoptive parents to receive medical records translations.

Initial Medical Evaluation of Adopted Children
Policy statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding medical evaluation of adopted children

International Adoption Clinic
The International Adoption Clinic at The University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinic offers an innovative health care service to make sure you and your new child start off on sure footing.

WebMD
Features some of the best health care information available anywhere.

GeneTree-DNA Testing Center
A provider of private at-home DNA paternity testing and other familial relationship DNA testing services.

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Partner Agencies:

The Joint Council on International Children's Services (JCICS)
The Joint Council on International Children's Services and its members are impassioned by the vision of a society that seeks to protect the child, birthparents and adoptive parents touched by intercountry adoption.

Lutheran Adoption Network (LAN)
Lutheran Adoption Network is committed to high quality adoptive services utilizing a network of Lutheran agencies.

United Way of Wisconsin
Lutheran Social Services is a United Way supported agency.

Pregnancy Web Resources:

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Ask NOAH about Pregnancy
Resource for pre-natal health care.

Baby Zone
Practical information on pregnancy and parenting.

R-Squared Press
R-Squared Press publishes books and materials specifically for birth parents.

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Teen Pregnancy
Web site with hundreds of resources for expectant teen parents.

Women's Health America Group
Comprehensive site for medical information regarding pregnancy and women's health.

LINKS TO WEB RESOURCES

Adoption Taxpayer Identification Number

Tax Topics: Adoption Credit