Resource Guide
General Adoption
These are great places to begin learning about adoption, the adoption process, and the many different options available to families:
How to Adopt
Show Hope created this website as a resource for families to help with decisions, adoption agencies, expectations, and fundraising.
Christian Alliance for Orphans
This website contains a wealth of information about church and global initiatives, Orphan Sunday materials, and an extensive list of trusted nonprofit organizations.
Domestic Adoption
NDSAN: National Down Syndrome Adoption Network
International Adoption
Reece’s Rainbow
Reece’s Rainbow is not an adoption agency. The mission of Reece’s Rainbow is to advocate and find families for orphans with Down syndrome and other special needs by raising funds for adoption grants. Profiles of orphans waiting for families are available for prospective adoptive families to view. Reece’s Rainbow provides connections to adoption agencies with specific adoption programs in countries around the world.
Rainbow Kids
Rainbow Kids is not an adoption agency. They are a central resource linking families, adoption professionals, humanitarian organizations, orphan-care and support missions, and children living out their lives in orphanages and group homes. Rainbow Kids provides a wealth of information about country programs, international adoption agencies, waiting children profiles, and stories from adoptive families.
Orphan Care
Families unable to adopt at this time may be interested in learning about other ways to offer support and care to orphans. These organizations work directly with children in need, providing much-needed medical care, therapy, nanny sponsorship, education, equipment, supplies, and more. Please consider helping orphans in need.
Open Hearts for Orphans
Individuals and families can contribute to the “Say Yes” adoption grants for families adopting children with Down syndrome, the Orphan Care sponsorship programs, or the Medical Interventions to help support orphans with additional medical needs. The Safe Hearts Program is an international foster care program for chiLdren that may not be orphaned, but are at risk. Sponsorship is available for foster families providing safety and care for children in need. Contributing sponsors will receive periodic updates.
Love Without Boundaries
Love Without Boundaries has a wide-reaching impact with their programs as well as transparency of where the funds are used. They provide medical care, education, foster homes, nutrition programs, healing homes, camps, specialized equipment, supplies, therapy, and special education support. LWB helps support orphans and at risk children and families within their home country. Sponsorship is available for the many programs as well as for individual children.
Lifesong for Orphans
Opportunities for giving include sponsoring an orphan, adopting an orphanage or school, and going on short-term mission trips. One hundred percent of donations go to orphan care. Lifesong also helps mobilize churches to meet local needs through foster care as well as providing grants for adoptive families.
Lost Sparrows
Lost Sparrows is dedicated to improving the lives of orphans and those with special needs through education, proper medical care, and adoption.
Show Hope
Tim Tebow Foundation
The foundation’s Orphan Care outreach provides essentials such as food, clothing, shelter, medical care, education, and the sharing of the Gospel to orphans in several countries. One hundred percent of your orphanage donation goes directly toward orphan care.
Reece's Rainbow
New Day Charities
Financial Assistance Organizations for Adoptive Families
Adoption Bridge
Adoption Bridge, a ministry of Every Child Has a Name, brings waiting children and loving families together by bridging the gap between the emotional needs and financial challenges of adoption.
Tim Tebow Foundation
The Foundation’s Adoption Aid program is focused on providing financial assistance to families adopting children with special needs.
RODS: Racing For Orphans With Down Syndrome
Angels in Disguise
Ephesians 3:20 Foundation
The Rollstone Foundation
Adoption Bridge
Brittany's Foundation
Gift of Adoption Fund
Adoptive families with an approved home study can apply for an adoption assistance grant for both domestic and international adoptions.
Adopt Together
Katelyn’s Fund Orphan Ministry
Room For One More Child
This organization offers adoption aid as well as providing a list of other organizations with grant opportunities.
Books
Cowboy Joel and The Wild Wild West
By The Gagon Family.
Extraordinary
Stories of Adopting Children With Down Syndrome.
Compiled by Cady Driver.
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family
By Wendy Lyons & Karyn Brand
The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment
By Lisa Qualls
The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder (The Out-of-Sync Child Series)
By Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.
Securely Attached: How Understanding Childhood Trauma Will Transform Your Parenting
By Mike & Kristin Berry
ALL IN Orphan Care: Exploring the Call to Care for Vulnerable Children and Families
By Jason Johnson
Everyone Can Do Something: A Field Guide for Strategically Rallying Your Church Around the Orphaned and Vulnerable
By Jason Johnson
The Global Orphan Crisis: Be the Solution, Change Your World
By Diane Lynn Elliot
Orphan Justice: How to Care for Orphans Beyond Adopting
By Johnny Carr
Same Lake, Different Boat: Coming Alongside People Touched by Disability, Revised and Updated
By Stephanie O. Hubach
Scoot Over and Make Some Room: Creating a Space Where Everyone Belongs
By Heather Avis
The Lucky Few: Finding God's Best in the Most Unlikely Places
By Heather Avis
Orphanology: Awakening to Gospel-Centered Adoption and Orphan Care
The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home
Adoption: What Joseph of Nazareth Can Teach Us about This Countercultural Choice
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches (Updated and Expanded Edition)
