Adventures of International Adoption: Resources we researched

In 2004 we started looking at Domestic Adoption

Here are some links that we used:

http://dcfs.co.la.ca.us California Department of Children & Family Services

http://www.nefe.org/ National Endowment for Financial Education search for adoption

http://www.adopt.org/ National Adoption Organization

http://www.cacfs.org/ California Alliance of Child and Family Services hit the links on this site

http://www.babycenter.com/ again search the word adoption

http://www.hfs.org/ Holy Family Services Adoption & Foster Care

In April 2006 we started hitting for International INDIA adoption

I highly recommend spending some time on this first site. It is not a complete list but it is a very good starting point. In May 2007 the links after the first one were contacted by one method or another – phone, email, visit if local. A comment about Dillon. Although we did not use them they are one of the few agencies that listed on their site names and email addresses of clients that have adopted. This is very rare and in my book shows integrity. Some agencies are reluctant to do this. They get high marks for doing it and the families get high marks for saying yes this is an agency that we would recommend. Another agency was International family Services who were willing to spend time talking and answering our questions without any $$. Some agencies won't talk without some payola. yeah we are taking their time but then again we are making a life changing investment and this is something that you want to do fully armed with information. Nothing worse than getting part way into the process and then deciding the agency you choose is really not working for you. o they too get very high marks in our book.