Adoption Utah

Did you know Utah’s Adoption Exchange has a library full of books about adoption that they will send you for FREE?!? It’s true–they have a great collection of books on various topics. Here’s how it works:

• Get online at https://www.utdcfsadopt.org/cgi-bin/adopt/library/main.cgi
• Request books
• The Adoption Exchange sends you the books, and you get to keep them for up to 6 weeks
• When you’re done (or they are due), just put them in the postage paid envelopes, and drop

Your homestudy is ready, you’ve chosen an agency, and now it’s time to wait. . . and wait. . . and wait. It can be hard to keep your hopes up–it seems there are hundreds of families for every available child. Yet, if you know where to look, there are babies available for adoption. Here are some sources I like to check. You never know when a situation will work out for you!

Disclaimer: My understanding is that adoption facilitators/referral services are not legal in Utah. Please work with an agency and/or attorney to be sure that you do not jeopardize your adoption by doing something illegal.

• Adoption Plan Forum  Includes posts of available situations
• Yahoo Group Available Adoption Situations
• Little Bit of Heaven Adoption Referral Service
• A Bond of Life Child Placing Agency
• ABC Adoptions Birthmother Postings
• American Adoptions Licensed Agency
• Lifetime Adoption Center Referral service
• Adoption Advisory 
• Heartfelt Adoption Facilitator
• Adoption.tk listing of situations
• ABC Adoptions hotline
• Adoption Choices of Colorado
• Adoption Pros
• Adopt Now
• Adoption Advertising facilitator
• Hands to Hold referral service
• Unique Adoptions facilitation service
• Valley of Hope adoption agency
• Sweet Beginnings adoption consultant service

Brand new to adoption? Faith Allen provides a great summary of each step in her series Adoption 101: How to Adopt a Child

Adoptive Families Magazine online offers a list of The Best Adoption Blogs.

Another of my favorites: Adoption Under One Roof

Wondering if that new adoption book is any good? Here is a great review by Pam Connell of the book Making Sense of Adoption by Lois Ruskai Melina.

For Parents

**Adopting After Infertility by Patricia Irwin Johnston

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Adoptionby Christine Adamec

**Raising Adopted Children by Lois Ruskai Melina

**Making Sense of Adoption: A Parent’s Guide by Lois Ruskai Melina  
Read Book Review

**Open Adoption Experience: Complete Guide for Adoptive and Birth Families by Lois Ruskai Melina

**Adoption Is a Family Affair!: What Relatives and Friends Must Know by Patricia Irwin Johnston

Secret Thoughts of An Adoptive Mother by Jana Wolff

Bi-Racial/Transracial Adoption

**I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World by Marguerite Wright

“Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum

**Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib by Jaiya John

For Children

**A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza

My Family, My Journey by Zoe Francesca

Guji Guji by Chih-Yuan Chen

 **Books available through Utah’s Adoption Connection Lending Library 

Leave a comment with your favorite book(s) and I’ll add them to the list!