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Adoption Organizations for Information,
Advocacy, and Support National Adoption Information Clearinghouse Children's Bureau/ACYF 1250 Maryland Avenue, SW Eighth Floor Washington, DC 20024 Phone: 703.352.3488 or 888.251.0075 Fax: 703.385.3206 E-mail: naic@caliber.com NAIC offers information
on all aspects of adoption for professionals, policy makers, and the general
public. The Clearinghouse develops and maintains a computerized database of
books, journal articles, and other materials on adoption and related topics,
conducts database searches, publishes materials on adoption, and gives
referrals to related services and experts in the field. NAIC also maintains a
database of experts knowledgeable in various areas of adoption practice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ North American Council
on Adoptable Children (NACAC) Phone: (651)644-3036 Fax: (651)644-9848 E-mail: info@nacac.org Website: http://www.nacac.org Founded by adoptive
parents, the North American Council on Adoptable Children is committed to
meeting the needs of waiting children in the foster care system and the
families who adopt them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evan B. Donaldson
Adoption Institute Phone:(212) 925-4089 Fax: (775) 796-6592 E-mail: info@adoptioninstitute.org Website: http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/ The Adoption Institute
seeks to improve the quality of information about adoption, to enhance the
understanding and perceptions about adoption, and to advance adoption policy
and practice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ American Adoption Congress PO Box 42730 Washington, DC 20015 Phone:(800) 888-7970; 202-483-3399 E-mail: ameradoptioncong@aol.com Website: http://www.americanadoptioncongress.org/ The American Adoption
Congress (AAC) is an international network of individuals and organizations
committed to honesty and openness in adoption and to reforms that protect those
involved from abuse or exploitation. Membership is open to adoptees, birth
parents, adoptive parents, professionals, and all others who share a commitment
to the AAC's goals. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Adoptive Families Magazine Editorial and Advertising Offices 39 West 37th Street, 15th Floor • New York, NY 10018 Telephone: 646-366-0830 • Fax: 646-366-0842 Subscription Customer Service: 800-372-3300 E-mail: letters@adoptivefamilies.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Center For Family Connections 350 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02141 (617) 547-0909 Fax: (617) 497 5952 Website: http://www.kinnect.org/ Serves individuals and families touched by adoption, foster care, kinship, and guardianship, as well as blended families. Offers education, consultation, advocacy, clinical treatment, and trainings to parents, agencies, schools, mental health workers, social workers, judges, and attorneys. For more information, see http://www.kinnect.org/training.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Insight: Open Adoption Resources and Support 721 Hawthorne Royal Oak, MI 48067 Phone/fax: 248-543-0997 Expectant parent/Birthparent Resource line: 877-879-0669 Website http://www.openadoptioninsight.org/ Email: brenr@openadoptioninsight.org Services
include: a Web Site with comprehensive information, resource support, and
professional training about open adoption. Offers in-service programs to
hospital personnel, adoption professionals, and crisis pregnancy centers.
Sponsors The Lifegiver's Festival, a conference for birthparents in open
adoptions, and Shared Connections, a conference for birthmothers and adoptive
mothers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PACT: An Adoption Alliance 4179 Piedmont Ave. Suite 330 Oakland, CA 94611 (510) 243-9460 E-mail: info@pactadopt.org Website: http://www.pactadopt.org/ Resources,
research, information and support about transracial adoption. Provides
post-adoption education services to adoptive families, pre-placement
consultations, and same-race and transracial placement services involving
infants of color. A quarterly newsletter, Pact Point of View, focuses on issues
of race in the context of adoption. Pact offers monthly education workshops, a
teen club and a yearly family camp for families of color. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CASE: The Center for Adoption Support and Education, Inc. 11120 New Hampshire Ave., Suite 205 Silver Spring, MD 20904 Phone: 301-593-9200 Fax: 301-593-9203 E-Mail address: caseadopt@adoptionsupport.org Website: http://www.adoption support.org/ Provides post-adoption
counseling and educational services to families, educators, child welfare staff,
and mental health providers in Metropolitan Washington, D.C. area.
Provides national training and consultation which integrates theory,
strategies, and innovative models. Resources include W.I.S.E. UP Powerbook to
assist children to stand up against adoption bias. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ FAIR: Families Adopting in Response Families Adopting In Response Warm Line (650) 856-3513 FAIR, PO Box 51436, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Email: info@fairfamilies.org Available from FAIR: Adoption
and the Schools: Resources for Parents and Teachers. Everything you and your
child’s teacher need to anticipate problematic assignments, communicate
effectively, and support your child in school. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Adoptees' Liberty Movement Association (ALMA) PO Box 85 Denville, NJ 07834 Phone: (973) 586-1358
Fax: (973) 586-1358 E-mail: MAnderson@almasociety.org Website: http://www.almasociety.org/ Adoptees' Liberty Movement
Association (ALMA), a membership organization, is an adoption reunion registry.
ALMA advocates for the right of adopted persons to know the truth of their
origin. The ALMA registry has a one-time registration fee of $50. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Concerned United Birthparents (CUB) PO Box 230457 Encinitas, CA 92150-3475 Toll-Free: 800-822-2777 E-mail: info@CUBirthparents.org Website: http://www.cubirthparents.org/ CUB's mission is to provide
support to birthparents who have relinquished a child to adoption, to provide
resources to help prevent unnecessary family separations, to educate the public
about the life-long effects on all who are touched by adoption, and to advocate
for fair and ethical adoption laws, policies, and practices. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contact Information for Adoption Professionals In the Book Ellen Roseman Curtis Cooperative Adoption 54 Wellington Ave. San Anselmo, CA 94960 Telephone: (415) 453-0902 FAX: (415) 455-9449 E-Mail:
ellen@coopadopt.com Facilitates
independent and agency adoptions with a focus on preparation for developing
open relationships. Ellen Roseman has been a facilitator in California for over
twenty six years, and has served as the Southwest Regional Chair of the
American Adoption Congress, is on the board of the Northern California Chapter
of Resolve, and has been active in adoption legislation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Carol L. Demuth, LCSW PO Box 460024 Garland, TX 75046-0024 Phone: (972) 414-3639 E-mail: cldemuth@yahoo.com Carol
Demuth works with Buckner Adoption and Maternity Services, and maintains a
private practice providing counseling, education, and mediation services to
those affected by infertility, child loss, adoption and assisted reproduction.
She is available for training in the fields of infertility and adoption. Ms.
Demuth is a reunited adoptee, and has authored Courageous Blessing: Adoptive
Parents & the Search, Considerations in Adopting Beyond Infancy, and is the
creator of the video Talking With Your Child About Adoption. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Patricia Martinez Dorner, MA, LPC, LMFT Adoption Counseling and Search 206 Lochaven Lane San Antonio, TX Tel & Fax 210-341-2070 E-mail:
pdorner@satx.rr.com Ms.
Dorner is the author of How to Open an Adoption: a guide for parents and
birthparents of minors; ADOPTION SEARCH: An Ethical Guide for Professionals;
Talking to Your Child About Adoption; ADOPCION: hablando con tu hijo,
and co-author, (with Kathleen Silber) of Children of Open Adoption.
Patricia has an adoption focused practice which includes counseling, search
assistance, preparation, support, and guidance in the opening of adoptions
involving minors. In 1999, she was awarded the Baran Pannor Award for
Outstanding Contributions in Open Adoption. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ James Gritter, MSW 8865 Crockett Williamsburg, MI 49690 231-947-8110 E-Mail: Jimgrit@aol.com James
Gritter is the editor of Adoption Without Fear and author of The
Spirit of Open Adoption, Lifegivers: Framing the Birthparent Experience in
Adoption, and (forthcoming) Adoptive Hospitality. Designated a "Social
Work Pioneer" by the NASW, he is available for training on child-centered
open adoption. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Adela Jones Buckner Adoption and Maternity Services 5200 S. Buckner Blvd. Dallas, TX 75227 Phone: (214) 319-3426 Fax: (214) 319-3470 Website:
http://www.buckneradoption.org/ Buckner
is the largest faith-based, non-profit agency in the country offering services
to adoptive parents, birth parents and children. Offers domestic infant, foster
to adoption, CPS adoption, and comprehensive lifelong services before, during,
and after placement. Specializes in an ethical, child-centered approach to
developing relationships between birth and adoptive parents. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shari Levine, Director Open Adoption & Family Services 5200 SW Macadam Avenue, Suite 250 Portland, Oregon 97201 (503) 226-4870 Fax (503) 226-4891 Website: http://www.openadopt.org/ A
nonprofit agency with a progressive approach to building healthy families. They
provide education and support for developing ongoing open relationships. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Susan Quash-Mah Teamwork for Children 767 Willamette, Ste. 301 Eugene, OR 97401 (541) 342-2692 E-mail: office@tfckids.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mary Martin Mason 4012 Lynn Avenue Edina MN 55416 Phone: (952) 926-2848 E-mail: mmason@mnadopt.org Nationally
recognized author and trainer with a specialty in open adoption; Adoption
Information Coordinator for Minnesota Adoption Support and Preservation (MN
ASAP); Legislative Chair for American Adoption Congress; Board Member of Gift
of Adoption Foundation; Author of Out of the Shadows:Birthfathers' Stories,
Designing Rituals in Adoption, and The Miracle Seekers, as well as
numerous nationally published articles about adoption. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dr. Joyce Maguire Pavao, CEO and Founder Center For Family Connections 350 Cambridge Street Cambridge, MA 02141 (617) 547-0909 Fax: (617) 497 5952 Website: http://www.kinnect.org/ Dr.
Pavao is the author of the book, The Family of Adoption, and numerous
articles on the Normative Crisis in the Development of the Adoptive Family. She
is an internationally recognized expert who is available for education,
consultation, advocacy, clinical treatment, and trainings to parents, agencies,
schools, mental health workers, social workers, judges, and attorneys. She has
received many honors and awards, including the North American Council for
Adoptable Children for Adoption Activist and Child Advocate of
the Year, and the Baran/Pannor Award for Excellence in Open Adoption. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Brenda Romanchik, MSW Insight: Open Adoption Resources and Support 721 Hawthorne Royal Oak, MI 48067 Phone/fax: 248-543-0997 Expectant parent/Birthparent Resource line: 877-879-0669 E-mail: brenr@openadoptioninsight.org Website http://www.openadoptioninsight.org/ Brenda
Romanchik is an adoption educator, an advocate for ethical adoption practices,
the founder of Insight, and the author of several pocket guides: Birth Parent
Grief, Being a Birth Parent: Finding Our Place, What is Open Adoption? Your
Rights and Responsibilities: for expectant parents exploring adoption. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sharon Roszia M.S. Kinship Center 1504 Brookhollow Drive, Suite 118 Santa Ana, CA 92705 Office: (714) 979-2365 E-mail:sroszia@kinshipcenter.org Ms. Roszia is the Program Manager of The Kinship Center, where she has pioneered in open adoption practice. The co-author, (with Lois Melina) of The Open Adoption Experience, Creating Kinship, (with Baran and Coleman) and Cooperative Adoption: The Official Handbook, with Rillera. Her articles and training on the Seven Core Issues of Adoption, has widely influenced adoption practice and understanding. She is available as a trainer and consultant for all adoption related issues. |
