Children, Youth and Family
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- Bastard Nation
- Focused on equal access for adoptees to their original birth certificates, adoptee dignity, combating negative stereotypes of adoptees, and providing a forum for the wide spectrum of adult adoptee experiences.
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- Hope4Kidz
- Advocating, with pre-adoptive families, for the rights of children in state foster care.
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- National Adoption Day
- A collective national (USA) effort to raise awareness of the children in foster care waiting to find permanent families.
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- National Resource Center for Special Needs Adoption
- Provides training, consultation, and informational materials for professionals, organizations, and parents regarding special needs adoptions.
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- Origins Canada
- Supporting people separated by adoption and asking for an inquiry into alleged illegal and exploitive adoption practices.
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- The ALMA Society
- Advocates for the right of adopted persons to know the truth of their origin. Offers an adoption reunion registry.
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- The Adoption History Project
- A digital public history resource, profiling people, organizations, topics, and studies that shaped modern American adoption theory and practice.
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- NPR : Scams Plague Efforts to Adopt Beyond Borders
- Michael Montgomery of American RadioWorks reports on problems with adoptions of children from the former Soviet Union. [17:10 streaming audio broadcast] (January 08, 2006)
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- NPR : Barriers to Adoption for Communities of Color
- Ed Gordon and guests explores overcoming obstacles to adoption in USA communities of color. [11:46 streaming audio broadcast] (November 07, 2005)
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- A Child is Missing
- Fort Lauderdale-based non-profit organization for locating missing children, the disabled and elderly during the first hours of disappearance. Serves several states throughout the country.
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- AMBER Alert
- A site by the Department of Justice that provides information on AMBER alerts, Public Service Announcements, a child safety guide, news, and a toolkit for raising awareness about missing children.
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- Child Find of America, Inc.
- National not-for-profit charity that locates missing children through active investigation, prevents child abduction through education, and resolves incidents of parental abduction through mediation.
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- Child Watch
- Cases of missing children, safety and abduction prevention information, recovered children stories, and child I.D. event information.
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- Code Amber
- Provides web site owners with a JavaScript news feed ticker that displays active Amber Alerts on their web pages. The ticker includes information about the victim, the law enforcement agency issuing the alert and contact information for reporting sightings. Any available information about the perpetrator is also displayed.
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- Kid Protection Network
- A resource for community safety for children. Information, support letters, pamphlets, links.
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- Missing Children Resources
- Listings of and links to articles, agencies, organizations and websites for information and resources concerning missing and runaway children.