Feel free to utilize any of the CHSFS post-adoption services, including classes, support groups for parents and children, adoption-related book clubs, adoption-related movie viewings, events and more!
Here are some other websites and resources that may be helpful:
Talking to your 3 to 5-year-old about adoption
Talking to your 6 to 8-year-old about adoption
Post-adoption check-ups: Which tests should you newly adoptive child have, now that he/she is home?
Adoption in the Classroom: a handout for teachers on how to incorporate discussion about adoption in your child's classroom.
A Memo to My Fellow Teachers: an article written by a teacher and adoptive mom about how to create an adoption-friendly classroom
Eastern European Growth Project at the University of Minnesota International Adoption Clinic.
Russian Family Search
MN Adoption Support and Preservation
Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families
Dream Kidz Adoption scrapbooks, memory books and adoption gifts.
Special needs
Sensory Integration Resource Center
Autism Resources
Attention Deficit Disorder Association
Children and Adults with ADD
MN Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Attachment/RAD needs
Attachment Disorder Site
Society of Special Needs Adoptive Parents
Better Endings New Beginnings
Pacer Center: Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights
Book List
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For Parents
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew -Eldridge
Adopting the Hurt Child -Keck
Parenting the Hurt Child -Keck
Adopting Piece by Piece: Special Needs - Graefe
Attaching in Adoption -Gray
Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child -Babb and Laws
The Explosive Child -Greene
Two Little Girls: A Memoir of Adoption- Theresa Reid
The Russian Word for Snow: A True Story of Adoption-Janis Cooke Newman
For Older Children
Oh Brother -Hale
Putting on the Brakes -Gantos
Ian's Walk -Gantos
Joey Pigza Loses Control -Gantos
Different Just Like Me -Mitchell
Help Yourself -Ross
For Younger Children
It is OK to be Different -Parr
Why am I Different? -Simon
Sparky's Excellent Misadventures - Carpenter
Just Because I Am -Payne
Ticket to Russia-Steissguth
When I Met You: A Story of Russian Adoption-Bashista
Look What Came from Russia - Miles Harvey
Nikolai, the Only Bear - Barbara Joosse
Borya and the Burps - Joan McNamara
How the Russian Snow Maiden Helped Santa Claus-Buyske
For the Whole Family
Lucy's Family Tree by Schreck
The Family Book by Parr
What is Adoption? by Stergianis
Adoption and the Schools by Wood
S.A.F.E. at School by Schoettle
Teacher's Guide to Adoption by Hilborn
W.I.S.E. Up! Powerbook by Schoettle
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