This new 16 video series by Dr. Karyn Purvis (developed in partnership with the TCU Institute of Child Development) offers seven insights and seven gifts that are highly relevant for those who are ...
In this brief video, Dr. Karyn Purvis explains the benefits of parents sharing appropriate amounts of power with their children through choice giving, compromises and other means. By sharing power ...
Christian Adoption Services is a private, non-profit agency whose primary purpose is to provide domestic and international children the opportunity of having a loving, Christ-centered family.
As a ...
This week the Christian Alliance for Orphans hosted the Post Placement Journey webinar. Dr. Karyn Purvis and Amy Monroe provided practical insights and resources to equip adoption and foster care ...
This webinar, hosted by the Christian Alliance for Orphans, highlights the Safe Families Model which provides a transformational alternative to foster care that makes the homes of local ...
How to Settle in and Thrive as a New Adoptive Family
Your long awaited international arrival has happened and your new family is formed. Hooray! After the excitement has worn off, reality of this ...
Several common school assignments can make foster and adoptive children feel left out, uncomfortable, sad, and hurt. Projects like the ‘Family Tree’, ‘Bring-a-Baby Picture’ and ‘Trace Your Genetic ...
This book tells the story of Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife Mary Beth's journey through courtship, marriage, adoption, and loss.
From the back cover:
"I've told my kids for years that God ...
God loves children. But for 80 years too many children and youth have been languishing in the U.S. foster care system. That’s too long. Over 120,000 of them are legally free for adoption and ...
Children from hard places have unique histories and needs. As a result, parents of these children need to learn how to love and parent them well. This requires that parents not only ...
Long before you decided to adopt, long before your child was born, God planned to put your adopted child into your home. Your child is an amazing gift from God, but nurturing an adopted child also ...
This article by Together for Adoption's Dan Cruver discusses our adoption in Christ, and the impact it has when we truly grasp that we are God's sons and daughters. Click below to read the ...
This resource is to aid social work and child care practitioners and policy makers around the world in planning and providing better care for children—including family strengthening and out of home ...
Parents who are struggling to connect with their children often find it difficult to find any real measure of hope. In this brief video, Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the importance for parents to ...
This autobiography by Jean Erichsen tells the story of how she went from being a neglected, abused child to become an adoptive mother and an orphan advocate. For more information or purchase ...
This great article by Together for Adoption's Dan Cruver talks about the importance of understanding our vertical adoption (by God) before we think about horizontal ...
The "Field Guide to Child Welfare" is a comprehensive, four-volume resource for child welfare workers and supervisors to use in their everyday practice. The guide describes basic theory, practical ...
Why doesn’t our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized ...
The gospel of Jesus Christ—the good news that through Jesus we have been adopted as sons and daughters into God’s family—means that Christians ought to be at the forefront of the adoption of orphans ...
"This week the Alliance hosted the first in its monthly webinar series for church orphan ministries. The series is designed to help individuals like you create and grow effective adoption, ...
