Resources on the Web

Social Services, Forums & Other

Lutheran Social Services Because there are children in need of a loving family and home, LSS provides adoption studies, placement, and post placement services. Open and closed adoption services are available.

Children's Home Society (CHS) provides a home, school, and therapy for children, ages 4-13, with emotional and behavioral problems; and emergency shelter services and counseling for women and children who are victims of domestic abuse.

Adoptive Families, the award-winning national adoption magazine, is the leading adoption information source for families before, during and after adoption.

Adoptive Family Connection of South Dakota (AFCSD) South Dakota's on-line source of information and support for adoptive families, foster families, kinship families and guardian families before, during and after adoption.

North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) Founded in 1974 by adoptive parents, the North American Council on Adoptable Children is committed to meeting the needs of waiting children and the families who adopt them.

Hannah's Prayer Community Forums This is an awsome adoption (internatinal, domestic, foster to adopt) and infertility website for women. Registration required.

Adoption Process

ParentProfiles.com, a service of Adoption Profiles, LLC, exists to provide an Internet environment where parents of children in need of adoption can connect with qualified adopting parents seeking to adopt, to find the best possible placement for their children, resulting in the successful and permanent adoption of more children.

AdoptUSKids.org is a national photo listing service for children awaiting adoption across the United States.

Adoption.com is committed to helping as many children as possible find loving, permanent homes. We also provide critical information at the decision-making moment to women facing crisis pregnancies. We assist adoptees and birthparents to find birthfamilies, and we help hopeful adoptive parents make adoption dreams come true. We are especially committed to helping special needs children in the U.S. and around the world, who otherwise wouldn't be able to find families.

Lutheran Adoption Network provides endless resources of knowledge throughout the adoption process. We have the ability to connect prospective adoptive families and children in need of adoptive homes, both internationally and domestically. We are the largest adoption network in the world, with agencies located in nearly all of the 48 contiguous United States, plus the Virgin Islands.

Shaohannah's Hope This is a list of reputiable adoption agencies and adoption advocacy groups, etc, that Steven Curtis Chapman endorses. Also, check out the main page for adoption grants.