Support & Mentoring Resources
Organizations:
Adoption & Family Coalition of New York
Currently has AGAPE – An Adoption and Guardianship Assistance Program for Everyone. It is open to all adoptive and guardianship families. They offer advocacy, training, peer support, short-term counseling, referral to long-term therapy, and respite. website: www.affcny.org , Questions: e-mail Renee at Renee@affcny.org or e-mail Pat O’Brien at pat@affcny.org.
Hillside Regional Permanency Resource Center
Currently has Adoption & Guardian Support – Hillside wants to meet adoptive and guardianship family needs by providing monthly support groups, one-to-one guidance, group and individualized training, referrals for the treatment of trauma, and help contacting local resources. Questions: e-mail Deirdre at dballard@hillside.com or call 607-281-7794.
Christian Alliance for Orphans
The following website from Christian Alliance for Orphans includes multiple types of resources. cafo.org/resources
Lavender Life Company
Home of the Xander Therapy Bunny. Each time you purchase a lovable, lavender-filled Xander Bunny, a child in foster care receives one as well. Through this program Walk Ministries has been able to provide over 2,200 bunnies to local agencies. lavender-life.com
Adoption: Children’s Books:
On the Far side of Poplar Pond by Anjanette Walchshauser
Amazon Description: Tina Turtle needs a home. The Duck family has more love that they long to share. Watch and see how God brings these lovable animals together as a family in a unique way through the gift of adoption.
Read together with your children and explore how families are created not because you look the same but because God perfectly orchestrates families.
Three Names of Me by Mary Cummings
Amazon Description: Ada has three names. Wang Bin is what the caregivers called her at her Chinese orphanage. Ada is the name her American parents gave her. And there is a third name, a name the infant Ada only heard whispered by her Chinese mother.
You Were Always in My Heart: A Shaoey and Dot Adoption Story by Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman
Amazon Description: You Were Always in My Heart is an endearing tale told from the point of view of a little ladybug, Dot, who happens upon a mysterious bundle one sunny day. Dot goes with the little bundle as she is carried to the place “where babies come to be found” and promises to stay with the little one throughout her journeys toward finding a forever family. Written by Christian music artist Steven Curtis Chapman and his wife, Mary Beth, this heartwarming tale is inspired by the true story of their adoption of three little girls from China and is a story of hope and faith for all families who have been blessed by a “little bundle of love.”
Although caution is taken in listing resources, these books, programs, and websites are not specifically endorsed by Walk Ministries.
