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Featured Reading 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. VISIT US! 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

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		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.<