maintaining the child in the home cess. Good info on obtaining ser- feel insurmountable.” vices for children with special needs. FAMILY Please visit Holt’s Post Adoption Understanding an Individual Educa- RESOURCES FOR website to access these webinars: tion Plan and 504 Plans www.nacac.org/postadopt/ http://www.holtinternational.org/ faqs.html#13 AFTER pas/holt-post-adoption-webinars/ Excellent detailed information on content of a plan and how to initiate an evaluation for an IEP PLACEMENT Websites: Post-Adoption Webinars Center for Adoption Support and Language: Sharon Glennen Education, Inc. (CASE) http://pages,towson.edusglennen/ Support index.htm Creating a Family International adoptee language ac- Education http://www.creatingafamily.org/ quisition Archives of 1000’s of discussions with professionals on all aspects of American Speech-Language-Hearing Holt Webinars: adoption, articles are also listed, Association Is My Child a U. S. Citizen?- What trainings are available as well. www.asha.org/ Adoptive Parents Should Know In addition to typical information has adult adoptees. Inquiries include Empowered to Connect (highly rec- info regarding learning a second everything from file copy requests to ommended): language and there is a search func- assistance with birth searches or cul- www.empoweredtoconnect.org/ tion to locate professionals. tural and historical information. Among the most common questions North American Council on Adopta- Center for Cognitive-Developmental we receive – from both adoptive par- ble Children (NACAC): Assessment and Remediation ents and adult adoptees – are ques- www.nacac.org/ www.bgcenter.com tions surrounding the issue of citizen- Specializes in assessing internation- ship. Presented by Debby Hanson, Tapestry Adoption & Foster Care ally adopted children for school Holt’s Administrative Coordinator for Ministry: readiness (Boris Gindis) Post Adoption Services. www.tapestryministry.org/ Learning Problems in Adopted Chil- Teens Talk About Adoption Tapestry Books: dren www.schwablearning.org/ A one hour video webinar featuring www.tapestrybooks.com/ articles.aspx?r=689 article by An- a panel of teenage Adoptees. See nie Stuart and hear their stories as they share their experiences and answer ques- Support Groups Schools and adoption tions from webinar participants Families with Children from China: www.childwelfare.gov/adoption/ about growing up as an Adoptee. www.fwcc.org/index.php/local- adopt_parenting/school/ This webinar will provide insightful chapters A treasure trove of information on and personal perspectives on issues helping your adoptee in the school relevant to Adoptive Parents. Families with Children From Vi- environment etnam: Hoarding, Food Obsession and www.fcvn.org Adoption Resources Center, Family Weight Worries: Healing a History Helper of Food Scarcity Korean Focus: www.familyhelper.net/arc/lng.html When children experience food scar- www.koreanfocus.org Has guide available for purchase city or unsupportive early feeding, it about preparing your adoptee for often has a profound impact on their Northwest Adoptive Families Associ- school and her teacher for adoption relationship with food. ation (OR/WA): issues www.nafaonline.org You Ain’t Crazy Center for Adoption Support and Jayne Schooler author of Wounded Northwest ICHILD (India Child) Paki- Education (CASE) Children Healing Homes discusses stan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and www.adoptionsupport.org parenting traumatized children and Nepal: National resource for families and how this experience impacts the www.nwichild.org professionals and this is where to get adoptive parent. “When a child with the W.I.S.E. Up Powerbook and the a history of trauma joins the family, S.A.F.E. at School programs School and/or Special it is transformational for that family. Education Most often, this transformation is KidSource. What is Early Interven- tion? positive for all in the family. Occa- US Department of Education sionally, the transformation is not www.kidsource.com/kidsource/ www.ed.gov content/early.intervention.html and the issues and challenges in Information about IEP and 504 pro- Transracial Adoption Beneath the Mask: Understanding by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere FAMILY Adopted Teens Oparah and Sun Yung Shin by Debbie Riley and John Meeks RESOURCES FOR A Personal Touch On… Adoption A Child’s Journey Through Placement by Berlin Peter by Vera Fahlberg AFTER Perspectives on a Grafted Tree: The Family of Adoption Thoughts for Those Touched by by Joyce Maguire Pavao Adoption PLACEMENT by Patricia Irwin Johnston Being Adopted Flight of the Stork: What Children Think (and When) about Sex and The Search for Anna Fisher Adoption throughout the Family Building by Florence Fisher by Anne C. Bernstein Lifespan Single Square Picture: A Korean The Whole Life Adoption Book by Adoptee’s Search for Her Roots Memoirs Jayne E. Schooler and Thomas C. by Katy Robinson Atwood Somebody’s Someone: A Memoir Books: Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search by Regina Louise Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self for Self by David Brodzinsky, Marshall There Is No Me Without You: One by David Brodzinsky, Marshall Schecter & Robin Henig Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Her Schechter & Robin Henig Country’s Children Brimming Over by Grace Sandness by Melissa Fay Greene How It Feels to be Adopted Dreaming a World: Korean Birth- by Jill Krementz mothers Tell Their Stories Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted by Sansoon Han Daughter Journey to the Adopted Self: A Quest by Betty Jean Lifton for Wholeness Gift Children: A Story of Race, Fami- by Betty Jean Lifton ly and Adoption in Divided America Voices From Another Place by J. Douglas Bates by Susan Soon-Keum Cox Lost and Found: The Adoption Expe- rience I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Let- The Waiting Child: How the Faith by Betty Jean Lifton ters from the Korean Birth Mothers of and Love of One Orphan Saved the Ae Ran Won to Their Children Life of Another Pieces of Me: Who Do I Want to Be by Sara Dorow (editor) by Cindy Champnella by Robert L. Ballard In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories Whose Child?: An Adoptee’s Heal- Twenty Life Transforming Choices by Rita J. Simon & Rhonda Roorda ing Journey from Relinquishment Adoptees Need to Make through Reunion… and Beyond by Sherrie Eldridge In Their Parents’ Voices: Reflections by Kasey Hamner on Raising Transracial Adoptees Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish by Rita Simon and Rhonda Roorda Their Adoptive Parents Knew by DVD’s Sherrie Eldridge In Their Siblings’ Voices: White Non- Making Sense of it All: Helping Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Adopted Children Understand Who The Adoption Life Cycle: The Chil- Experience Being Raised with Black They Are (DVD) from the 2011 Tap- dren and Their Families Through the and Biracial Brothers and Sisters estry Adoption and Foster Care Con- Years by Rita Simon and Rhonda Roorda ference by Elinor B. Rosenberg Ithaka: A Daughter’s Memoir of Be- What is my Teen Really Saying? Adoption Healing… A Path to Recov- ing Found (DVD) From the 2013 Tapestry ery by Sarah Saffian Adoption and Foster Care Confer- by Joe Soll ence Loving Across the Line: A White Adoption Nation: How the Adop- Adoptive Mother Learns About Race tion Revolution is Transforming Amer- by Sharon Rush ica by Adam Pertman My Family, A Symphony: A Memoir of Global Adoption Adoption Piece by Piece: Lifelong by Aaron Eske Issues by Sara Graefe Outsiders Within: Writing on Activities to Promote Attachment propriate for your child. Also includ- ed is information about child devel- FAMILY Baby Massage: The Calming Power opment and play skills of Touch book by Heath and Pain- RESOURCES FOR braidge Behavior Management http://babybabyohbaby.com Empowered to Connect Information and resources regarding www.empoweredtoconnect.org AFTER infant massage Associated with Karyn Purvis and TBRI this website has video clips ad- Child massage - Touch Research In- dressing specific behavior issues. PLACEMENT stitute - University of Miami Great for someone who doesn’t like Leaders in the field of the im- Attachment or have time to read. It also has a portance of touch free downloadable study guide to Development Karin’s book:” The Connected Book: Yoga Games for Children: Child” Fun and Fitness with Postures, Move- ments and Breath Attachment Child Welfare Information Gateway By Bersma, Misscher, and Looistra www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/ Book: Attaching in Adoption: Practi- factsheets/preschool.cfm cal Tools for Today's Parents “I Love You Rituals” by Rebecca Find the adoption link and there is a Written by: Deborah D. Gray Anne Bailey book of rhymes and wealth of information on many is- This is a comprehensive guide for games that send the message of un- sues prospective and actual adoptive par- conditional love for infants to 8 ents on how to understand and care years old Book: The Connected Child: Bring for their adopted child and promote hope and healing to your adoptive healthy attachment. It explains what Theraplay Institute family attachment is, how grief and trauma www.theraplay.org Written by: Dr. Karyn Purvis et. Al. can affect children's emotional de- Play is essential for bonding to occur The adoption of a child is always a velopment, and how to improve at- no matter what the age of the child. joyous moment in the life of a family. tachment, respect, cooperation and Some adoptions, though, present trust. Parenting techniques are Circle of Security unique challenges. Welcoming these matched to children's emotional http://circleofsecurity.net/ children into your family--and ad- needs and stages, and checklists are A relationship based early interven- dressing their special needs--requires included to help parents assess how tion for ages 0-5 yrs. Register to at- care, consideration, and compas- their child is doing at each develop- tend a training or find a local facili- sion. mental stage. tator Trust Based Relational Intervention Dr. Karyn Purvis on establishing the Learn about cocooning (TBRI) bonds of connection: http://www.lianalowenstein.com/ http://child.tcu.edu/about-us/tbri/ http://creatingafamily.org/ articlesParentAdoptedChild.pdf This is the parenting model that Holt connected-child-bring-hope-healing- teaches adoptive parents.