Adoption Links of Interest

These sites are for interest only.  
This is not recommending one service over another.

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Adoption Preparation Links
  

Do you find yourself needing help loving your child through the traumas post adoption?

The authors of Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control, Heather Forbes, LCSW and Bryan Post, PhD, LCSW know from personal experience what it is like to be a place of darkness and to be living in more stress than seems humanly tolerable. They offer first an understanding that will empower you and second, they offer hope!
  

Includes: Recommended Screening Test and Evaluation Once Child Is Home
 

A non-profit organization created to assist families with post institutional children, typically children adopted internationally. Project Katherine recognizes that raising a Post Institutional child has unique needs.  An example: Pre-Adoption Vaccines
 

Several training course specifically geared to adopting a child internationally and the issues you will face after placement such as: School issues- behavioral and language, hosting children abroad, helping your child develop a foundation of learning, psycho-educational screening, etc. Course are around $29 each.
 

This book and CD set will help you learn Haitian Creole words and phrases to communicate with your child. Although in Haitian Creole each letter generally has one sound only and every letter is pronounced, we have written a pronunciation below each translation to make things as straightforward as possible. The CD was recorded in a professional studio by speakers who lived and worked in Haiti.