Adoption 911

Are you an adoptive parent in search of answers, support and resources now that your child/children are home? Do you struggle with bonding issues or are longing to speak with someone who has ‘walked in your shoes” and can relate to your adoptive situation? We at Global Orphan Outreach understand the opportunities and challenges adopting a child bring to your family. We are here to listen and encourage you as well as help you with the necessary information needed to make the transition complete for your child and for your family.
Be Encouraged! Join Jenny’s Updates!
If you would like daily encouragement with your walk with the Lord and with parenting; you are invited to join Jenny’s yahoo group–Jennysupdates–where she shares nuggets of what the Lord is teaching her each day through her children, His word, music, quotes by much wiser people, and all the other creative ways He finds to get her attention.  Feel free to join at:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Jennysupdates/>

Adoption Resources

Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today’s Parents by Deborah Gray
Nurturing Adoptions: Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma by Deborah Gray
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control by Heather Forbes
The Connected Child by Karyn B. Puryis, David R. Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine
Therapeutic Parenting:  A Handbook for Parents of Children who have Disorders of Attachement by ATTACh and Kelly Frey
Being Adopted:  The Lifelong Search for Self by David M. BrodzinskySafe Passage by Ida Cook
The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross W. Greene
Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled Children by Daniel Hughes
Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-Needs Kids by Gregory C. Keck
Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow by Gregory C. Keck
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce Perry
Liberian Adoption by Angel Q. Rutledge
Center for Family Development-#1-800-236-3792 (for families in Wisconsin)

Support Group

Over the last few years a few hundred children have been adopted from Liberia by American parents. There is no doubt that these parents deeply love their kids and mean the best for them. Given the huge cultural difference between the USA and Liberia, these adoptive families would need some assistance in helping their new children to keep in touch with their Liberian roots and grow up to have a true sense of who they are. It is in view of this desire to help that this Internet group was established. This group will discuss and find solutions to social and cultural issues that may be encountered by the American parents and acculturation difficulties that may be faced by the adopted children. The sole purpose of this group is to help the families succeed in their transitioning of their newly adopted child into their families. Feel free to join at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bridgingthegapliberia/