Adoption Today

29/01/2025

So important for international adoptees.

For international adoptees who acquired citizenship before they turned 18 but have not yet acquired the Certificate of Citizenship, the cost is now Zero. It’s usually about $1200, so this is …

22/02/2024

03/01/2024

Every child deserves to know their origin story and why they came to be part of their adoptive family.

Conscious Adoption: Lifelong Tools for Successful Parenting 12-week course begins January 11, 2024 on Zoom. Courses are created by adoptees in collaboration with other adoption constellation members to help individuals and families develop adoption competence, make informed decisions around adoption, and meet other members of their adoption community.
Registration and details at

Creating space for parents to talk about their decision to adopt and connecting you to a community of other adoptive parents

31/10/2023

CCAI’s 2024 Foster Youth Internship (FYI) Program® applications are now OPEN through November 13, 2023! Apply via the link in bio.

The FYI Program began in 2003 as an effort to raise awareness to federal policymakers about the needs and unique perspectives of individuals who have experienced the U.S. foster care system. This is an immersive seven-week, educational, and civic experience in Washington, D.C. with a comprehensive onboarding to ensure participants are well-prepared for effective advocacy and leadership development in the nation’s capital. CCAI works with congressional offices to secure a congressional internship for each participant. In addition, CCAI organizes an orientation, advocacy trainings, networking, and various other professional development opportunities. These combined experiences allow the participants to create a federal policy report that is presented to U.S. Congress, Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, and released to policymakers and advocates across the country.

Details on eligibility, application information and instructions, and more can be found at www.ccainstitute.org.

01/02/2023

Here's an opportunity to check out.

MAP survey launch

03/11/2022

🙋🏻‍♀️I like to stay behind-the-scenes, but here I am! I’m Haley, the host and creator of Adoptees On - the podcast where adoptees discuss the adoption experience.

🎧If you’re a long-time listener, would you share in the comments WHY new folks should listen to Adoptees On?

🌳My reasons for being here:
1. Make the podcast that I wanted and needed to hear
2. Elevate and amplify adoptee voices
3. Support adult adoptees to know they aren’t alone
4. Connect adult adoptees into a welcoming community
5. Encourage adult adoptees to find the supports they are looking for (support groups, therapists, adoptee friends)

🍃I am here to serve adoptees. Period.

🎤My show is free because of Patreon supporters, and if you value it and hope it continues, please donate to keep it going! Link in bio for the extra goodies you get when you support the show.

🚫If you’re not adopted, you can listen, you can watch, you can learn, but these are NOT things I do:
1. I do not give advice to adoptive parents
2. I do not explain myself to adoptive parents
3. I do not answer emails from adoptive parents
4. I do not answer dms from adoptive parents

17/07/2022

If you're at the in New Orleans this week, be sure to stop by our booth and say hello to Deborah Denzel. We'd love to connect!

Come see us at the Family Focused Treatment Association Conference in NOLA today! We’d love to connect!

15/12/2021

Be sure to check out The Imprint’s story about one agency’s efforts to comb through years of adoption files. https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/amara-digs-into-past-adoptions/61085

Through the Adoption Files Initiative, a Seattle nonprofit is combing through 50 years of adoption files to make amends in cases where requests were dropped, or staff withheld information that should have been shared.

07/12/2021

06/12/2021

Check out what this Korean adoptee has to say about her adoption experience. https://www.ted.com/talks/sara_jones_my_story_of_love_and_loss_as_a_transracial_adoptee -763652

A mysterious tattoo on her forearm was all that linked Sara Jones, adopted as a child by white parents, to her South Korean origins. Searching for her birth family taught her that transracial adoption stories often frame new lives abroad as strokes of luck that call for endless gratitude, obscuring....

18/08/2020

A new study suggests that learning about one’s own adoption after a certain age could lead to lower life satisfaction in the future.

04/06/2020

A survey for kinship caregivers:

Since the beginning of the public health crisis with COVID-19, our Grandfamilies Outcome Workgroup (GrOW) members and our partners have been learning about the impact of this pandemic for kinship families. We are sending this letter to your organization, in collaboration with our national partners, Generations United and Collaborative Solutions, and the many kinship families across the country to share our heartfelt appreciation and concern for you during this difficult time.

We believe that it is urgent to construct a comprehensive data story of the needs and resiliency experienced by kinship caregivers and multi-generational families across the U.S. We would like to please ask for your help in reaching out to the families in your community networks to collect this information via an online survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/PQK2HSH

We plan to keep the survey open until June 15, 2020. We would like to promptly share this information back to you and the broader community to inform how we can better support your work as a relative caregiver to children. Please reach out to [email protected] if you would like any additional information or if you are interested in participating in more opportunities to share your story.

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

28/04/2020

Do you know someone who is an or advocate and is making (or has made) an extraordinary, above and beyond contribution(s) for adoption and foster care? Recommend them as a potential Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute Angels in Adoption honoree here: bit.ly/2VPPYEr

Web word processing, presentations and spreadsheets

20/02/2020

When state legislatures discuss bills that would allow adult adoptees access to their original birth certificates, opposition groups argue that birthmothers were…

07/02/2020

What advice would you give for someone considering adopting?

06/01/2020

Some thoughts on transracial adoption.

This month, the adoption hearing of Michael Clark Jr. went viral when his kindergarten class came to a Michigan courthouse in support of the new family’s formation. The story was almost universally adored, with many pointing out the positivity of the situation compared to the news cycle’s typica...