Northwest Adoption Support

Seattle-area therapist leads five families through a year-long support group, highlighting common parenting concerns and child adjustment following institutional care. Many topics apply to all types of adoption.

A fun, readable book about mixed-up feelings and who's who (counselor, judge, attorney, social worker) in the rarely-a-clear-answer world of foster care. Age 4+

Provides a child's perspective on the roller-coaster of foster care and the struggle to find a place to belong. Good for school-age.

Honest and intense, this collection of birth mother narratives from the 1940s-60s has the potential to shift public understanding of U.S. adoption history. Interviews conducted by an adult adoptee.

A thoughtful look at how our own childhoods can shape our parenting styles. This readable primer on attachment, communication, and positive discipline guides insight into both parenting hot buttons and surges of loving connection.

Authored by an adult adoptee, this book presents a 'Top 20' list of major themes, fears, truths, and questions in the adoption lifecycle.

A parentless bird finds a home with a single mother and siblings of a different species. This story has resonance for kids in foster care, transracial adoptees, and young children in general. Ages toddler-7yrs.

Adoption impacts family dynamics. An attachment-focused therapist and adopted person describes the ripple of adoption--loss, identity, new concepts of family, and the importance of empathy and connection.