Project HOPEFUL has created helpful resources with your needs in mind.
Your Questions Answered: An in-depth booklet which addresses people's most burning questions. Download
Adoption FAQ: Answers to commonly asked questions about our waiting children and adoptions in general. Download
Grant Organizations: A list of organizations providing financial assistance for adoptive families. Download
Truth Pandemic Brochure: a quick, informative brochure designed to answer basic questions about HIV transmission and address the most common fears. Download
Facts Resource Sheet: and resource fact sheet providing an array of information on varying topics related to HIV/AIDS and orphans. Download
Questions for Adoption Agency/Facilitator Resource: A resource created for adoptive parents to use during the research phase. Designed to help parents select an adoption facilitator/agency that will meet their needs. Download
About Us Brochure: Learn more about Project HOPEFUL. Download
My Child has HIV: An informational brochure designed to help answer questions friends may have about what HIV might mean to them. Download
TB Guidelines: U.S. Immigration, HIV, and Tuberculosis Screening and Treatment Information. READ MORE
En Francais
La Verite De Medecine Pandemie: Informations sur le VIH. Download
De l’information de VIH: De l’information à propos de VIH/le sida: Ce que vous devriez savoir Download
The most important thing to remember about adopting a child with HIV is that they are like other children you might adopt. It’s important to think carefully about where you want to adopt from, do research on agencies, and prepare for normal (and the unexpected) challenges of adopting and parenting internationally adopted children. Here are some good resources
Internet resources to start and augment your research:
RainbowKids How to Adopt Internationally Guide: A great resource to walk you through the process
RainbowKids Country Guidelines Summaries: Help to figure out which countries you can adopt from
U.S. Dept of State Intercountry Adoption site: U.S. guidelines on intercountry adoption and up-to-date country information
Show Hope How to Adopt Guide: A great guide to walk through the process
Creating a Family: Country guides, adoption faqs, and webcasts of topics relevant to adoption and infertility
Adoption.com: Website on international and domestic adoption
Internet groups to help with your research:
HIV-specific: HIV adoption Yahoo group. There are also some agency specific groups for families adopting children with HIV from that agency.
Not HIV-specific: International Adoption Resources, Adoption Agency Research, and many, many other Yahoo groups that are specific to the country and/or characteristics of the child you are considering adopting. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/ and put in Adoption and the country you are interested in adopting from.
Books: There are many great books. The Complete Book of International Adoption and You Can Adopt are good books for walking through the adoption process step by step. There are many other books that are good related to adoptive parenting, domestic (as opposed to international) adoption, and transracial/ transcultural parenting that are great once you start on this journey! There is No Me Without You is not specifically an adoption book, but a book about the HIV/AIDS crisis, using the window of one woman's process of becoming engaged in caring for orphaned children and including stories about some children who went from being orphaned to adopted.
Magazines: Adoption Today and Adoptive Families.
