SWAN Adoption Resources

General Adoption Websites

• The official website for SWAN
• A photolisting for PA children waiting for families, as well as other useful information.
• A national photolisting, although you can search for PA children here as well. In addition, they have many resources and articles.
• Child Welfare Information Gateway, a clearinghouse with lots of information about adoption and child welfare.
• National Adoption Center
• Together as Adoptive Parents, this website contains a wonderful listing of adoption savvy resources all over the state of PA.

Subject-specific resources

Attachment:

• Attachment and Trauma Network
• Association for the Training and Treatment in the Attachment of Children

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

• PSTD & Trauma Treatment and Recovery
• Child Trauma Institute

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

Books

• Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child by Trish Maskew
• Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Needs Children: A Guide for Parents and Professionals and Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow by Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky
• Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents and Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma by Deborah Gray
• Parenting with Love and Logic: Teaching Children Responsibility by Foster W. Cline and Jim Fay
• Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child by Beth O’Malley
• In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell their Stories by Rita James Simon and Rhonda Roorda
• The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family by Karyn B. Purvis, David R. Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine
• Parenting Your Older Adopted Child and Eden’s Secret Journal The Story of an Older Child Adoption by Brenda McCreight
• Adopting the Older Child by Claudia L. Jewett
• A Child’s Journey Through Placement by Vera Fahlberg