School can be a wonderful place for children to grow, learn, and build friendships. However, for adoptees and adoptive families, it can also come with unique challenges. Whether it’s filling [...]

Choosing to be open to a transracial adoption comes with a unique responsibility to your child unlike any other type of parenting. You are tasked to raise a child of [...]

Adoption is a lifelong journey—one filled with emotions, challenges, and questions. If you’ve ever wished for a space where you can connect with individuals on a similar journey and others [...]

Adoption counseling plays a vital role in providing support, guidance, and impartial information to expectant parents. It is designed to empower them by helping them understand their rights and available [...]

Children face a variety of life stressors, and adoption can bring even more challenges and complexity to a child’s life. As a parent, it’s important to be attuned to your [...]

Research shows that 95 percent of adoptions are “open adoptions” involving some communication between the adoptee and birth family. However, that wasn’t always the case nor is it always possible. [...]

Adoption is a lifelong journey with complex emotional, psychological, and social dynamics that require specialized understanding and support. Adoption competent therapy matters to all impacted by adoption, including adoptees, birth [...]

When a family is expanded through adoption, two families (the child’s birth family and adoptive family) are joined together for a lifetime creating their own extended family network. Navigating post [...]

Choosing to place a child for adoption in order to best provide for them is definitely one of the hardest decisions that a parent will ever make. Many parents consider [...]

ACI was founded 35 years ago on the belief that best practice in adoption is to nurture and advocate for genuine, open communication. This goes for all involved. Most importantly, [...]