Recommended resources

We have found the following resources and organizations valuable in the work we do. This list is not comprehensive. If you come across something not included here you think we should know about, please reach out.

These resource links are organized by category.

Adoptee perspectives and resources

Adoption competent therapy

  • Adoptee therapist directory - List of U.S. mental health professionals who are also adoptees, from Grow Beyond Words
  • Screening questions - What to ask to find an adoption-competent therapist, from Grow Beyond Words
  • Adoption-competent therapist factsheet - Finding and working with adoption-competent therapists, from the Child Welfare Information Gateway
  • Therapy resources - Advice, podcasts, book, and courses, from Creating a Family
  • CASE accredited therapists - National directory of therapists who have completed the Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) program through the Center for Adoption Support and Education
  • Healing the Adoption Constellation - This database from Unraveling Adoption includes coaches, psychotherapists, hypnotherapists, art therapists, and others who work with members of the adoption constellation.

Adoption information - general

Adoption reform

Birth parent support

Educational and training opportunities

Parenting in adoption

Pregnancy options

  • Planned Parenthood pregnancy options
  • Power to Decide - works to ensure that every young person has the power to decide if, when, and under what circumstances to get pregnant—increasing their opportunity to pursue the future they want.
  • Bedsider.org pregnancy options - Bedsider is an online birth control support network for women 18-29 operated by Power to Decide.
  • Pregnancy Choices: Raising the Baby, Adoption, and Abortion - from The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
  • pregnancyoptions.info - This site has a workbook for pregnancy options and another for abortion resolution, as well as a list of resources for each option.
  • All-Options Talkline - is staffed by trained peer counselors who provide nonjudgmental support for folks calling to discuss all pregnancy experiences, including parenting, abortion, adoption, miscarriage, and infertility. Calls from loved ones are also welcomed.

Parenting as a pregnancy option

  • US Department of Health and Human Services - Information about federal, state, and local programs and services for their children and families.
  • Child Welfare Information Gateway - Parenting tips and resources, and how to locate help in one’s local community.
  • Zero to Three - Informs, trains and supports professionals, policymakers and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers.
  • Healthy Families America - Strives to provide all expectant and new parents with the opportunity to receive the education and support they need at the time their baby is born.
  • Parenting Now - Parenting groups, support, advice and networking.
  • Insights Teen Parenting Program - Provides positive options for young parents.
  • Oregon Parenting Education Directory - Programs listed by county compiled by Oregon State University.
  • UrbanMamas - A dynamic online community for mamas who share tips, advice, ideas, fun, challenges and more.
  • Parent Helpline - Emotional support from trained advocates to become an empowered and stronger parent.
  • Tufts Child and Family Web Guide - A collection of parenting websites that have been systematically reviewed by Tufts University and contain information that is grounded in evidence-based practice and research.
  • Oregon Association of Relief Nurseries - OARN supports, strengthens, and develops Oregon’s network of independent Relief Nurseries to maximize family resilience and prevent the abuse and neglect of young children.

Abortion as a pregnancy option

  • National Network of Abortion Funds - This organization builds power with members to remove financial and logistical barriers to abortion access by centering people who have abortions and organizing at the intersections of racial, economic, and reproductive justice.
  • AbortionFinder - Comprehensive directory of trusted abortion service providers in the U.S.
  • Brigid Alliance - Logistical support to help people travel for an abortion, with a focus on people past 15 weeks of pregnancy for whom it’s generally more expensive and harder to find a provider near home.
  • Exhale Pro-Voice - Nonjudgmental after-abortion support
  • The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists - Medical information about abortions
  • Ineedana.com - Comprehensive and regularly updated guide to find abortion providers
  • Power to Decide - Advancing sexual and reproductive well-being for everyone
  • NAF National Abortion Hotline - Toll-free confidential consultation and abortion information
  • M+A Hotline - Support for anyone experiencing a miscarriage and/or abortion
  • Planned Parenthood - The nation’s leading sexual and reproductive health care provider and advocate
  • All-Options - Free confidential talk line for women to discuss their feelings about pregnancy options without judgment
  • Cedar Rivers Clinics - Providing compassionate reproductive health care, birth control, and abortions for over 30 years. Located in Renton, Seattle and Tacoma, Washington
  • Trust Women - Dedicated to preserving reproductive freedom and providing a safe space for women to make informed choices about their health
  • Guttmacher Institute - Sexual and reproductive health research, policy analysis and public education
  • Ibis Reproductive Health - Information resources for sexual and reproductive rights and health
  • Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) - Reproductive health care and policy
  • Ballotpedia - Abortion regulations by state

Adoption as a pregnancy option

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