~ Adoption Resources: On the Web ~

All links have been checked as of 2/13/07. If you find any non working links, or have suggestions for links to add, please email judy@woodruffs.com .

Jerri Ann Jenista, MD is a well known pediatrician, lecturer and writer in the field of adoption medical health.

This is a directory of clinics and doctors in the US and Canada specializing in international adoption medicine from comeunity.com.

Families Thru International Adoption (FTIA) provides a list of international adoption clinics, including contact numbers and information for Dr. Debbie Borchers.

Adoption Community On Line:

One of the great resources available on the Web are the combination discussion group/bulletin board available through Yahoo. A comprehensive list of China-adopt info groups is now available, courtesy of RCC, at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RaisingChinaChildren/links

When your children reach school age and older, there is the RaisingChinaChildren(RCC): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RaisingChinaChildren

Adoption agencies discussion groups

Orphange and province-related discussion groups

For pre-adoptive families, there is Adoptive Parents China (APC) : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/a-parents-china

Adopting the older child: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aok-china/

For families of adopted Chinese children with attachment issues: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/attach-china

For families who have, or are in the process of adopting a child from China with special needs: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/china-adoption-special-needs

Infertility discussion: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/China-IF-Chat

Families With Children From China general website: http://www.fwcc.org

CCAA Website:  http://www.china-ccaa.org/

Indiana Association of Chinese Americans: http://www.iacaonline.org/index.html

Contact your Senator:

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Contact your U.S. Representative:

http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Our Chinese Daughters Foundation is a non-profit foundation that supports families with children adopted from China.

Information on Midwest Chinese Family camp is here.

Chinese/ English translation and interpretation services can be found at Champion Language Services. Founder Di Wu was born and raised in Beijing, China. He came to the United States with his parents in 1986, when he was 15 years old. Mr Wu went on to great success in both the academic and business world . Champion Language Services can serve your business, as well as adoption and other personal translation and interpretation needs.

Paper Chasing and Preparing:

Paperchase 2000 is a wonderful resource with links for everything from everything you need for dossier prep to baby names and packing lists.It is also a Yahoo group and still very active in 2003.

CDC site:  http://www.cdc.gov/

China Resources:

Chinatown Online : a site which provides information about China & the Chinese community in the UK as well as wonderfully presented pages about all forms of Chinese culture - music (with sound files!), customs, Chinese beliefs, recipes and a really great game of Hangman!

China the Beautiful is a very beautiful site with hundreds of pages and links to information and examples of Classical Chinese Art, calligraphy, poetry, history, literature, painting and philosophy.

Two comprehensive umbrella sites that provide tools for learning and using Chinese characters and language are http://www.mandarintools.com/ and http://zhongwen.com . You can find characters based on the pinyan form of a word at http://zhongwen.com/s/ziyin.htm .

Muzi.com - The Digital Great Wall: a English/Chinese bilingual portal, for news and other web resources concerning China, Chinese, Asian-American, and - to quote from the site's intro - "all Westerners who have connection with the East."

Travel:

Lotus Travel Inc. is the largest adoption focused travel agency in the United States and features the popular Ladybug Adoption Package, Fortune Cookie Package, along with a selection of Heritage Discovery Tours(tm) and cultural tours of China and SE Asia.

Converting from Metric to English: http://anduin.eldar.org/~ben/convert.html

A printable list of questions to ask at the time of referral and when in China, meeting your child's caretakers, can be found here. A translated list of the same questions in Mandarin can be found here (but you have to do a little hunting to find the files on the page and you may have to sign in to Yahoo to be able to access them.). In the same location, is a letter in English and Mandarin with instructions for caretakers use of a disposable camera, should you want to send one ahead before traveling to China.

Most parents will interview and choose a pediatrician before their trip to China. Here is the list of questions for the pediatrician used by many China-adopt parents, in printable format.

Audio Tutorial in Mandarin for China Adopt Parents, Dumb Frequently Asked Questions and other resources for waiting families at Judy Woodruff's site: http://www.woodruffs.com/

Comprehensive account of one families visit to CCAA in Beijing; many photos of matching room and staff and more from Ashley Verslius' trip to China in June 2000: http://familyoffour.homestead.com/

China Adoption News is a fun and fact filled blog by adoptive parent Walter Reade.

Kirby Barlett Sloan provides the weekly round-up of China-related television (in the United States) and also gives us a link to watch Chinese television on-line (from China).

Links to over 300 personal adoption story web sites:  http://www.tussah.com/lara/chinasto.htm

Regarding medical review of referral information: FCC Indiana is not endorsing or recommending any of the above clinics or individuals. We are providing this information to our families as resource information. FCC Indiana has no contractual arrangement with any of the above, nor does FCC Indiana receive any financial benefit from any family utilizing the services provided by the above.