Helpful Resources for Professionals

Watch Adoption Connection’s video The Adoption Decision: Birthmothers Tell Their Stories. Hear four real birthmothers tell their stories about why they chose adoption for their babies through Adoption Connection’s open adoption services.
Watch it here

Helpful Web site Links

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Find information to share with pregnant women and teens, birthmothers and fathers, and other birth relatives, as well as information to counsel and support these triad members.

Pregnancy Options Workbook
This Web site provides accurate and unbiased information about all pregnancy options. Download an options workbook that includes exercises to help you or your client work through thoughts and feelings about an unplanned pregnancy.

CTIS Pregnancy Risk Information Line
A statewide service operated by the California Teratogen Information Service (CTIS) and Clinical Research Program. The goal is to promote healthy pregnancies through education and research. Teratology is the study of birth defects caused by exposures during pregnancy. Call the hotline with specific prenatal exposure questions and concerns.

Adoption Learning Partners
Many professionals in social work and related fields offer services to clients touched by adoption.  Adoption Learning Partners offers online courses for adoption professionals to provide information and training in a convenient and timely manner. Receive CEU credit in courses such as Ethical Consideration for Social Workers in Infant Adoption.
Recommended Books

We highly recommend the following books about open domestic adoption:

The Third Choice: A Woman's Guide to Placing a Child for Adoption
By Leslie Foge and Gail Mosconi

Dear Birthmother: Thank You for Our Baby
By Kathleen Silber abd Phylis Speedlin

Making Room in our Hearts: Keeping Family Ties Through Open Adoption
By Micky Duxbury

The Open Adoption Experience
By Lois Ruskia Melina and Sharon Kaplan Roszia

Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming America
By Adam Pertman

Out of the Shadows: Birthfathers' Stories
By Mary Martin Mason

Publishers and Distributors of Adoption-Related Books

Tapestry Book Company

Specializes in the distribution of hundreds of adoption-related books for adults and children alike.

Perspectives Press

An infertility and adoption book publisher providing award-winning books, articles, and workshops for consumers and for medical, mental health, counseling, and allied professionals about infertility, reproductive health, and alternative-family building.

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