Grants
The main grants that I point people to are:
Employer Adoption Benefits
- Adoption-Friendly Workplaces (Dave Thomas Foundation)
- Military Adoption Benefits
Book Recommendations
There are some outstanding books available that can help you navigate the process and provide the parenting advice needed to make it work. These are some of my favorites. It’s a long list, so I’ve bolded what I consider the MUST-HAVES. (Affiliate links)
For Adoptive/Foster Parents
- The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
by Karyn B. Purvis (Author), David R. Cross (Author), Wendy Lyons Sunshine (Author) - The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment by Karyn Purvis PhD and Lisa Qualls
- Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents by Deborah Gray
- The Adoptive Parents’ Handbook: A Guide to Healing Trauma and Thriving with Your Foster or Adopted Child by Barbara Tantrum
- 20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed..Discover the Unique Need of Your Adopted Child and Become the Best Parent You Can by Sherrie Eldridge
- Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens by Debbie Riley
- Adoption Through the Rearview Mirror: Learning from Stories of Heartache and Hope by Karen Springs
- The Primal Wound by Nancy Newton Verrier
- Parenting Children of Trauma: The Foster-Adoption Guide to Understanding Attachment Disorder by Marcy Pusey
- Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma by Debora D. Gray
- Confessions of an Adoptive Parent: Hope and Help from the Trenches of Foster Care and Adoption by Mike Berry
- Honestly Adoption: Answers to 101 Questions About Adoption and Foster Care by Mike Berry
- Securely Attached: How Understanding Childhood Trauma Will Transform Your Parenting by Kristin and Mike Berry
For Extended Family
- In On It: What Adoptive Parents Would Like You To Know About Adoption. A Guide for Relatives and Friends by Elisabeth O’Toole
From Adoptees
- In Their Voices: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption by Rhonda M. Roorda
- Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
- What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee’s Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices by Melissa Guida-Richards
- Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care by Tori Hope Petersen
- We’re Adopted, So What?: Teens Tell It Like It Is by Gayle H. Swift