BOOKS, RESOURCES AND TAPES

United States of America - California.

Bridge Builders: A Program of Kinship Centre and Holy Family Services under a contract from Orange County Social Service Agency.

  1. Referral Criteria; Pamphlets: Bridge Builders; Holy Family Services - adoption and fostercare; Dreams Really Can Come True; Kinship Centre - Fostercare & Adoption.

North American Council On Adoptable Children:

  1. 1999 Conference Papers and Tapes (listed separately).
  2. Transracial Parenting Project: Self Awareness Tool; Training Curriculum; Parenting Resource Manual. ATRAP - Association For Transracially Adopted People information.
  3. Educating The Educators: Training Package.

British Columbia - Vancouver.

Adoptive Parents Association of British Columbia, 1999. Resources:

  1. Raising Healthy Multiracial Adoptive Families, A Question and Answer Guide for Adoptive Parents.
  2. Attachment and Adoption.
  3. Talking to Children about Adoption.
  4. Adoption Awareness in Your Child’s School.
  5. Bibliography.
  6. Pamphlets: Adoption: We Can Help; Medical Tests for Internationally Adopted Children.
  7. Adoption Books List For Children. Adoption Books List For Adults.
  8. Focus on Adoption. The Magazine of the Adoptive Parents Association of British Columbia.
  9. Support Group Handouts: Afro-Canadian Adoption Support Group; Vancouver Infertility Peer Support Group; Friends of the Family: Families with Children from China.

Family Services of Greater Vancouver: Resources. 

  1. Pamphlets: Family Adoption Services Agency - Pregnancy Counselling & Adoption Services; FAS/E Support Network of B.C.: A Service of F.A.C.E.S. (Fetal Alcohol Consultation, Education Support Services); Living Through Loss: Counselling.
  2. The Adoption Reunion Registry: Self - Directed Search and Reunion Information; Their Pamphlet; Application; Handouts on Reunion; Report on the Adoption Reunion Registry (June:1995).
  3. The Adoption Act 1996. (For the Province of British Columbia).
  4. The Development of Romanian Orphanage Children Adopted To Canada.

ENGLAND

British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)

  1. Pamphlets: Adoption; Pregnant and thinking about Adoption?; Intercountry adoption.
  2. Booklet on Publications from BAAF.
  3. Application information about joining BAAF. Membership Form.
  4. National Research Symposium information.
  5. University of Sussex - pamphlet on Postgraduate/Undergraduate Certificate in Childcare Decision Making. (Child Placement and Child Protection).

Department of Health:

  1. Adoption - Achieving the Right Balance. Local Authority Circular 1998.

Post Adoption Centre:

  1. Handouts: The Post-Adoption Centre Contact Service; Information for adopted adults who are thinking about tracing birth relatives; Information for birthparents who wish to make contact with a son or daughter who is now over 18; Information for brothers and sisters who wish to make contact with a sibling who was placed for adoption in the past and is now over 18; Information for adoptive parents whose adult sons or daughters are thinking of tracing their birthparents; Information for adopted people and birth relatives about genetic sexual attraction following reunion.
  2. Useful Names and Addresses - National Organisations; Specialist Services in England, Wales; Scotland, Northern Ireland, Eire, Isle of Man; General Register Offices England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Eire, Scotland, Isle of Man; Self help Groups; Private Tracing Agencies.
  3. Pamphlets: The Post Adoption Centre; A post-adoption service for anyone involved in adoption; The Impact of Adoption; Grandparents Federation; The Post Adoption Centre Service Evaluation & Complaints Procedure; Professional Workshops-For Counsellors, Therapists and Professionals involved with Adoption - 1999/2000; Pre-Adoption Preparation Counselling Training; In-House Training Programme for Professional - 1999/2000; Annual Report 1998; Adoption Issues - Workshops and groups for all participants in adoption 1999.
  4. IMPACT - The Newsletter of the post-Adoption Centre.
  5. Post-Adoption Centre Publications List and Order Form.

St Francis’ Children’s Society:

  1. Handouts: Aims and Objectives; Information for Potential Carers - Your Questions Answered; Services for Adoptive Families; Sports and Thoughts-Group for Young Adopted People; The Work We Do.
  2. St. Francis’ Newsletter.
  3. Pamphlets: Talk Adoption-A Helpline for Young People; Respite Care; Adoption into the next Millennium; Adoption UK-Supporting Adoptive Families before, during and after adoption.

SWEDEN

The Swedish National Board for Intercountry Adoptions (NIA)

  1. Adoption in Sweden: Policy and Procedures concerning Intercountry Adoption.
  2. Legal provisions concerning adoption.
  3. Intercountry adoptions: Handbook for social welfare boards.
  4. Intercountry Adoptions: What is the state of research and what new fields need to be investigated?
  5. Children Adopted From Abroad And Coming To Sweden After Age Three: The adjustment process during the first year with the family - by Marrianne Cederblad (1982).
  6. Adoption av aldre barn.
  7. Adoptivbarn - Information
  8. Adoptivbarn - bakgrund och sprak.
  9. En Adoptivfamiljs - Liv & Leverne.

 

BOOKS

Argent, Hedi, 1998. Whatever happened to Adam? Stories of disabled people who were adopted or fostered. BAAF UK.

Bartholet, Elizabeth, 1993. Family Bonds - Adoption & the Politics of Parenting. Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Company NY, USA.

Barn, Ravinder, 1999. Working with Black Children and Adolescents in Need. BAAF, UK.

Bayless, Linda, 1990. Assessing Attachment, Separation and Loss. Child Welfare Institute, Georgia, USA.

Hill, Malcom, and Shaw, Martin, 1998. Signposts in Adoption: Policy, practice and research issues. BAAF, UK.

Jewet, Claudia, 1997. Helping Children Cope with Separation & Loss: Child Care Policy and Practice, Revised 2nd. edition, Free Association Books Ltd. London, UK.

Johnson, Patricia Irwin, 1992. Adopting: After Infertility. Perspective Press, Indiana, USA.

Lowe, Nigel, and Mervyn Murch, Margaret Borkowski, Anna Weaver, Verna Beckford with Caroline Thomas. 1999. Supporting Adoption: Reframing the Approach. BAAF, UK.

Lowe, Nigel, et al. Supporting Adoption: Reframing the Approach - Summary. BAAF, UK.

McCartt Hess, Peg, and Proch Kathleen Ohman, 1988. Contact: Managing visits to children looked after away from home. BAAF, UK.

McNamara, Joan, and Bernard H. McNamara, .1994. Adoption and the Sexually Abused Child. The SAFE-TEAM Curriculum: Preparation and Support for Families Adopting Sexually Abused Children. Second Edition. UK.

Mullender, Audrey, and Kearn, Sarah, 1997. “I’m Here Waiting”: Birth relatives’ views on Part 11 of the Adoption Contact Register for England and Wales. BAAF, UK.

Owen, Morag, 1999. Novices, Old Hands and Professionals: adoption by single people. BAAF, UK.

Phillips, Rena, and McWilliam. Emma, 1996. Working with adoptive families. BAAF, UK.

Turnpenny, Peter, 1997. Secrets in the Genes: Adoption, inheritance and genetic disease. BAAF, UK