AdoptiveFamilies.com

The Mission: Adoption Education Shouldn’t End with Placement For more than four decades Adoptive Families has provided readers with trusted perspectives from respected adoption experts and a sense of community from real-life personal stories written by adoptive parents, adoptees, birth parents, and others touched by adoption.  Adoptive Families continues to provide a rich toolbox for raising self-aware children who have access to the information they need to fully consider their race, their roots, and their adoption story as they grow up and as adults. Readers can turn to the Adoptive Families archives to: parent consciously rather than with best intentions begin an adoption dialogue from day one and give your children all the details of their adoption stories talk openly about racial differences in your family and racism in society sensitively build a relationship with an expectant mother and father and navigate an open adoption respond to misperceptions about adoption at your child’s school, within your circle of family and friends, or in your larger community think about the best way to respond to each of your children’s questions, and create an atmosphere in which they feel safe asking increasingly complex questions.

Understood.org

Understood is a nonprofit dedicated to shaping the world for difference. They provide resources and support so people who learn and think differently can thrive — in school, at work, and throughout life. Seventy million people in the United States have learning and thinking differences, like dyslexia and ADHD. But the world isn’t set up for them to thrive. They are working to change that by raising awareness and providing resources to help people with differences reach their potential.