Adoption Awareness+Reform

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🌐Type this into Google: “Adoptee Support”

❤️‍🩹Adoptee Mental Health & Wellbeing: Adoptee Therapist Directory - Beyond Words Psychological Services

❤️‍🩹Adoptee Mental Health & Wellbeing: Free Mental Health Videos and Support by TherapyinaNutshell

❤️‍🩹Adoptee Mental Health & Wellbeing: Adoptee Healing Book List by OpenlyAdopted

❤️‍🩹Adoptee Mental Health & Wellbeing: Free Mental Health Coping Videos for Adoptees

🫂Adoptee Support Group: Adoptee-Only Conversations (FB)

🫂 Adoptee Support Group: Adoptees Connect

📜Adoptee Rights Information: Accessing Original Birth Certificate by State (Adoptee Rights Law Center)

🧑‍🏫Scholarships (December 2022): Top 11 Scholarships for Adopted Children and Foster Children

🌐Type this into Google: “Youth in Care Support”

❤️‍🩹 Youth in Care Mental Health & Wellbeing: Mental Health Coping Videos for Youth In Care

❤️‍🩹Youth in Care Mental Health & Wellbeing: Self-Help for Trauma Recovery by NMVVRC

🔗Support Services for Youth in Care: Youth Advocacy/Advisory Boards & Foster Care Alumni Associations by State-Child Welfare Information Gateway

🔗Support Services for Youth in Care (Advocacy for Youth Rights): Juvenile Law Center

🔗Support Services for Youth in Transition (Transitioning from Care to Adulthood): Child Welfare Information Gateway

🔗Support Services for Youth in Care: Federally Mandated Supports and Resources in place for Youth Transitioning from Foster Care

🔗Support Services for Youth in Care: Services and Financial Support Youth In Care & Former Foster Youth (Chafee Fund)

🔗 Support Services for Youth in Care: Health-Care Coverage for Children and Youth in Foster Care—and After

💌Contact this Organization for Support: One Simple Wish

💌Contact this Organization for Support: Together We Rise

🧑‍🏫Scholarships (December 2022): Top 11 Scholarships for Foster Children in October 2022

Adoption Rehoming: ‼️Sign the Petition‼️ Demand that Facebook Stop Letting Users Rehome Adopted Children on the Platform (Petition by @karpoozy on TikTok)

Adoption Rehoming: Americans use the Internet to abandon children adopted from overseas-Investigative Article by Reuters from 2013

Adoption Rehoming: The Underground Market of Internationally Adopted Children: Re-homing and Questioning the Practice of International Adoption-The Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service - UA Little Rockti

Adoption Annulment: Learn about Adoption Annulment by Adoptee Rights Law Center

Adoption Annulment: Bill of Health

🔗Family Preservation Support Services-Need help with Dinner or Looking to help someone? Check out Lasagna Love!

🔗Family Preservation Support Services (Support for Birth Moms considering Adoption): Saving Our Sisters Adoption

🔗Family Preservation Support Services (Birth Mom & Parenting Support): The Family Preservation Project

📌Learn about Family Preservation: Child Welfare Information Gateway

📜Family Preservation Legislature: Family First Prevention Services Act (Federal Law)

📜Family Preservation Legislature: Family First Prevention Services Act - Child Welfare Information Gateway

📌 Learn about Trauma-informed fostering: Book List by Courtney Craig

📌Kinship Care (not Kinship Adoption): Child Welfare Information Gateway

📌Fictive Kinship Care (not Fictive Kinship Adoption): Legally Recognizing Fictive Kin Relationships A Call for Action by Julia J. Eger

📌Fictive Kinship Care: Fictive Kin definition and examples by Open Education Sociology Dictionary

📌Legal Guardianship: What is Legal Guardianship?

📌Learn about Permanent Legal Guardianship: Permanent Guardianship as a Permancy Option (can apply to other cares outside of kinship) & State Policies by Child Welfare Information Gateway

📌Learn about Legal Guardianship: The Pros & Cons of Guardianship by Amsberry Law Firm (No Affiliation to Firm nor Promotions listed)

Guardianship Assistance by State | Does your state offer guardianship assistance? By Child Welfare Information Gateway

👂🏼👂🏾👂👂🏿👂🏻 Listen to Adoptees: Dr. Samantha Coleman & Sandria Washington

‎👂🏾👂🏼👂👂🏾👂🏿Listen to Adoptees: Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast by Dr. Noelle, Tosha & Lia (Available on all Platforms)

👂🏼👂🏾👂🏿👂🏽👂Listen to Adoptees: Conversations About Adoption

👂👂🏽👂🏼👂🏻👂🏻👂🏿Listen to Adoptees | Adoptees On Podcast

👂👂🏿👂🏻👂🏾👂🏼Listen to Adoptees: Theodora Blanchfield, AMFT

👂🏿👂👂🏻👂🏼👂🏾Listen to Adoptees | Dear Adoption Blog

👂🏽👂🏿👂👂🏼👂🏾 Listen to Adoptees: Randee Dawn, Writer

👂🏼👂🏿👂🏾👂🏻👂Listen to Adoptees: Kelly Curry

Additional Adoption-Related Resources by Miathaicha @miathaicha on Linktree & TikTok

Additional Adoption-Related Resources by Kateryna @kaaaaaaaateryna on TikTok & @resourcesbykateryna on Linktree

Lifelong Impact of Adoption - Child Welfare Information Gateway

📂BetterHelp Article: Understanding Adoption Trauma

What Are the Mental Health Effects of Being Adopted?

📖Book: The Primal Wound by Nancy Verrier

Birthmother Research Project

📁Study by Origins Canada: Adoption Trauma-The Damage to Relinquishing Mothers

📑Article: Relinquishment Trauma: The Forgotten Trauma by Marie Dolfie

📑AAP Article: Adoptee Rates of Maltreatment

📑AAP Article: Trauma-Informed Care

📑IBISWorld Research: Adoption Industry Reports, Research & Stats

📑AAP Study: Adoptee Rates of Self-Unaliving

📺Youtube Video: Genetic Mirroring & How It Affects Adopted People by Jeanette Yoffe

📺Youtube Video: Legal Trafficking: Adoption 'Re-homing’ by 60 Minutes Australia

🎤Lecture: Adoption & Addiction by Paul Sunderland

📖Book List (US Adoption & Foster Care History): List by Courtney Craig

📝NCSL Article: Adult Adoptee Access to Original Birth Certificates

🎧Podcast (Adoption History): Georgia Tann Episode by Southern Fried True Crime