"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands." Isaiah 49:15

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Adoption Resources

Heart for Orphans partners with local missions and churches in Ukraine to share Christ with kids in orphanages and support those who have graduated from the orphanage.

Books

• Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, Sherrie Eldridge
• The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Adoption,Christine Adamec 
• Carried Safely Home, Kristin Swick Wong
• Raising Adopted Children, Lois Ruskai Melina
• Raising Children with Character, Elizabeth Berger
• Why I Chose You, Gregory Lang
• Parenting the Hurt Child, Gregory C. Keck, PH.D and Regina M. Kupecky, L.S.W.
• Adopting the Hurt Child, Gregory C. Keck, PH.D and Regina M. Kupecky, L.S.W.
• Age of Opportunity: A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens, Second Edition, Paul David Tripp
• Shepherding a Child's Heart, Tedd Tripp
• The Weaver’s Craft, Mary Hopkins-Best (Excellent book on toddler adoption)
• Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping, Heather T. Forbes
• Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behaviors, Heather T. Forbes  
• Help for the Hopeless Child, Dr. Ronald Federici
• Traumatic Experience and the Brain, Dave Ziegler 
• Raising Children who Refuse to be Raised, Dave Ziegler
• The Connected Child, Karyn Purvis and David Cross
• Achieving Success with Impossible Children, Dave Ziegler
• The Courage to Heal Workbook, Laura Davis

Websites

• http://adoption.state.gov/country/ukraine.html
  U.S. State Department’s Intercountry Adoption website
• http://ukraine.usembassy.gov/adoption.html
  Adoption information from the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv.
• http://www.ditu.gov.ua/
  Ukraine’s State Department for Adoptions and Protection of Rights of the Child (SDAPRC). You will need to polish your Russian.
• http://www.tapestrybooks.com
  Buy adoption books.
• http://adoptivefamilies.com/order/index.php
  Subscribe (not free) to an adoption magazine.
• http://www.familiesofpromise.org/
  An orphan and adoption resource and support ministry.
• http://www.frua.org/
  International adoption support resources for families that have adopted from Eastern European and Central Asian countries.
• http://www.eeadopt.org/
  Eastern European Adoption Coalition (EEAdopt) has several Listserv mailing lists covering the needs of adoptive families and children.

Adoption Issues

Here are some subject suggestions and links regarding issues you may want to explore to best educate yourself about adoption. 

• http://adoptionlearningpartners.org
  E-learning for adoption related issues.
• http://www.add.org/
  Attention Deficit and/or Hyperactivity Disorder  (ADD/ADHD)
• http://www.keepkidshealthy.com/welcome/conditions/developmentaldelays.html
  Developmental Delays
• http://www.nofas.org/
  Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) and  Fetal Alcohol Effect (FAE)
• http://www.valleyhealth.com/Adoption.aspx?id=170
  Medical Screening Tests for children adopted internationally after arrival in the U.S.
• http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/g2603/0006/2603000653/p1/article.jhtml
  Sensory Integration Disorder (SID)
• http://www.postadoptinfo.org/
  Raising the Post-Institutionalized Child