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How To Use This Open Adoption Web Site (site content discription): AdoptionOpen.com is an informational adoption web site for people seeking a basic knowledge of domestic open adoption. Even though open adoption has been taking place in the United States for over 25 years, to the majority of the population, it is a form of adoption that many know little about. Please read through and enjoy the different categories on our site, keep in mind though that we at www.adoptionopen.com are not open adoption specialist. If you are a birthmother and are considering placing your baby through open adoption or a family who is considering open adoption as a way to build your family, it is essential that you acquire the services of an adoption professional that you can trust to guide you through the adoption process. Enjoy the site, and if you have any questions or comments please feel free to email us at, info@adoptionopen.com Thank You! Debbie Weeks, Founder of Adoptionopen.com, openadoptionopen.com and co-founder of adoptingababy.org Mamabears.org, adoptionopen.org,. Make sure to visit our new Open Adoption Gift Shop with gifts for all members of the adoption triad, apparel celebrating open adotive families, birthmother gifts and baby gifts. just click here, Open Adoption Gift Shop. Wikipedia definition of open adoption:

 
   
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Featured Adoption Professionals - Domestic Open Adoptions

Independent Adoption Center
Licensed Adoption Agency 391 Taylor Blvd. | Suite 100 | Pleasant Hill | CA | 94523 | Tel: 1.925.827.2229 | Fax: 1.925.603.0820

Cooperative Adoption Facilitation
Ellen Roseman
54 Wellington Ave. San Anselmo, CA 94960

Friends in Adoption
Licensed Adoption Agency - 44 South Street | P.O. Box 122 8| Middletown Springs, VT 05757-1228 | phone - (802)-235-2373

Open Adoption & Family Services
5200 SW Macadam Avenue, | Suite 250 | Portland, Oregon 97239 | Phone: (503) 226-4870

Resolve of Northern California
Northern California Chapter of RESOLVE| 312 Sutter Street — Suite 405| San Francisco, CA 94108 | Office 415.788.6772

If you are an adoption professional and would like information about placing your banner on our homepage, just click here to find out more!
Open Adoption Support
The Best Open Adoption Blog on the Internet!!!
The Open Adoption world has been waiting a long time for a blog that can do so much for all members of the adoption triad. Created by the "true" open adoption professionals, people like you and me, you will find blog postings from the ones who live open adoption on a daily basis, adoptive families, birthfamilies and adoptees. (www.openadoptionsupport.com)

Featured Adoption Article!
“What are you?”
Kimi Raspa was adopted as a infant from Korea. Read her compelling, poignant and at times humorous tales explaining who she is and how she fits into the fabric of her family and life as a American. [Kimi Raspa is currently interning at RELEVANT and besides answering the "what are you" question several times already, she frequently professes her love for Zach Braff.

Fostering Solutions
Fostering Solutions is an independent foster care agency who are passionate about ensuring positive outcomes for children and young people in foster care.

Your open adoption web site starts with your "Dear Birthmother Letter"
Because your web site works hand in hand with all forms of your adoption outreach, your web address, or domain name should be added to your “dear birthmother” letter. This doesn’t mean that you must have your web site completed before your letter, it only means that you will need to buy your domain name and hosting package, or determine the location of your web site before the letter is started...continue


"Dear Birthmother" letter Services. Adoptingababy.org provides Dear Birthmother letters, flyers and brochres...read more

Our Adoption Journey to Madison... After three long days and two very stress ridden nights, my partner and I found ourselves once again un-matching with our birthmother. By now we were becoming seasoned professionals at picking ourselves up and dusting ourselves off from failed matches. Waiting together in our hotel room in Portland Oregon, we received the phone call that we had hoped...story continued

 

Featured Adoption Professionals & Events

Open Path The Fertility and Adoption Resource Organization
Adoption Symposium - March 8th, 2008

Open PathTM is where you come to find the path that fits your journey to parenthood.
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This Months Featured Birthmother Support Resource:

New York Statewide Adoption Reform’s UNSEALED INITIATIVE
JOIN US TO LOBBY IN ALBANY
For more information please contact: unsealedinitiative@nyc.rr.com

Birthmothers Unite A site created to help birthmothers connect, and provide information on birthmother issues.

Check out this incredible Birthmother support website, .birthmombuds.com developed by two birthmothers seeking to establish a thorough and reliable online resource for birthmothers
http://www.unsealedinitiative.org/h

Most everyone has an adoption story to tell. A story that is close to their heart. Perhaps you were adopted, or you have a family member who has or is adopted. Perhaps you hav placed a child for adoption. We in the adoption community can all benifit from hearing these stories, even if they are difficult. If you would like to share with the internet community your adoption experience, you can send us your story and we will post it to our open adoption articles section of our website.

Just send it to:
Subject: Our Adoption Story Email: info@adoptionopen.com Thank you so much!

Deb Weeks
Adoptive Parent and
Founder of Adoptionopen.com


 

     
 




Web Site Table of Content

 
  Birthmother Support
Birthmother resources and support information, adoption articles, books and links for birthmothers seeking online support information

Families Seeking to Adopt
A list of our prospective adopting families with photos and links to their adoption web sites. All of the families on our site have a homestudy completed by a licensed adoption agency. If you are an open adoptive family and would like to consider posting your "Dear Birthmother letter" on our site, please visit our "getting linked" section to read more about the process.

Adoption Resources
Listings of adoption related organizations, open adoption agencies, facilitators, lawyers and professionals for birthparents, adoptive families, and adoptees.

About us
How and why we started our web site, and our own open adoption journey

Contact us
Contact Information
Feedback forms.

Site Map
A Directory and listing of all of the catagories and pages on our site

Additional Adoption Services
A list of adoption related services and products

Adoption Events
A list of open adoption workshops, support groups, and seminars occurring nationwide for adoptive families, adoptee's and birthparent's

Linking To Our Site
Instructions on...
How adoptive parent's can get listed with us
Building and Hositing Your Adoption Site
How to become a featured family
How to become a sponsored link

Adoption Books
A list of adoption reading materialfor..
Open Adoption
Birthmothers
Adoptive Parent's
Childrens Books
Adoptees
Interracial Adoption
Gay Parenting and Adoption
Special Needs Adoption

Adoption Dictionary
(definition of adoption terms)
List of adoption legal terms and language.
Support links to goverment adoption sites.

Adoption Agencies Specilizing in
Open Adoption
List of adoption agencies in the United States specializing and practicing solely in open adoptions.

Open Adoption - An Introduction
The Information on this page was provided by The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect.

Adoption Seminars, Workshops and Events
A list of open adoption workshops, support groups, and seminars occurring nationwide for adoptive families, adoptee's and birthparents.

 
  Adoption Link Exchange
A list of adoption related services and products. A location where fellow adoption professionals can post the link to their web sites.

Gay Adoption
This section of our web site is dedicated to the support and advocacy of Gay prospective adoptive parents

Singles Adoption Support
This section of our website is filled with with support information and links to websites and organization advocating and assisting single parent families in their quest to become parents through adoption.

Adoptee Links
A page dedicated to support link for adult adoptees' and inspirational adoption quotes


Adoption Books:
A list of adoption books and reading material for..
Open Adoption
Birthmothers
Adoptive Parents
Children Books
Adoptees
Interracial Adoption
Gay Parenting and Adoption
Special Needs Adoption
...additional adoption reading material.<