Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption: Has free step-by-step guide to adoption that can be requested.
US States foster/adopt websites: Here you can search the photo listings for your specific state and get information on contacting your state agency to adopt children from foster care.
Heart Galleries of America: Visit your states Heart Gallery to see children needing to have a adoptive home provided for them.
Adopt Us Kids: A large national site devoted to finding homes for children in foster care.
The Adoption Exchange: Helping to find homes for children from foster care located in several specific states.
US Photo Listing Search: Children that need homes from foster care from all across the US.
Adopting Privately:
Holt International: International Christian adoption agency
Adoption Agency State Listings: Pick your state to see see what the current licensed adoption agencies working in your state are.
Books to read:
Adoption: Your Step-By-Step-Guide by Mardie Caldwell
The Ultimate Insider's Guide to Adopting by Elizabeth Falker
Choosing to SEE by Mary Beth Chapman
Resources:
Orphan Care Ministries:
- Buckner International
- Igniting Hope Foundation
- VisionTrust
- Orphan Outreach
- World Orphans
- Children’s HopeChest
- HopeMongers
- Amazima
- Global Orphan Outreach
- Orphan Relief and Rescue
- Remember the Poor
- Doma Connection
- Covenant Mercies
- Orphan Epidemic
- Red Letters Campaign
- Saddleback Orphan Care Connection
- Organizations That Help Financially:
- ShowHope
- Caroline’s Promise (North Carolina only)
- Pathways for Little Feet
- God’s Grace Adoption Ministries (Matching grants)
- The MICAH Fund (Midwest only)
- Lifesong for Orphans
- International Children’s Adoption Resource Effort
- National Adoption Foundation
- A Child Waits
- Our Creators Hope
- The LYDIA Fund (International adoptions)
- Katelyn’s Fund
- America's Christian Credit Union (Low interest adoption loans)
