From the PSA campaign promoting teen adoption, funded by the Children's Bureau.

Celebrating National Adoption Month: Resources for Prospective and Adoptive Families

Resources for families on foster care adoption, characteristics of children waiting for adoption, and postadoption services in the Adoption and Achieving & Maintaining Permanency sections of Child Welfare Information Gateway’s website.

Adoption

• Resources for prospective adoptive parents
• Foster care adoption
• Postadoption services

Achieving & maintaining permanency

• Children waiting for adoption

Highlights

• Foster Parenting

Selected Resources Answering the Call: Family Pocket Guide (PDF – 1370 KB)    AdoptUsKids (2003) Designed to help prospective foster and adoptive parents understand and track their progress throughout the adoption process. Handbooks for Adoptive Parents National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning Links to States' child welfare agency handbooks that assist prospective adoptive parents in negotiating the foster care adoption process.