HRC FamilyNet
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) FamilyNet is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource on gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) families. HRC FamilyNet provides extensive information and resources about adoption, foster care, and surrogacy including a step-by-step process to adopt domestically or internationally, an overview of states that currently appear to be open to or tolerant of gay adoptions, and a state-by-state listing of gay-friendly adoption agencies and attorneys. Make HRC FamilyNet your first stop…
www.HRC.org/familynet

Adoption: Information, Help, Referrals

North American Council on Adoptable Children
Founded in 1974 by adoptive parents, the North American Council on Adoptable Children is committed to meeting the needs of waiting children and the families who adopt them.
970 Raymond Avenue, Suite 106
St. Paul, MN 55114
phone: 651-644-3036
fax: 651-644-9848
e-mail: info@nacac.org
www.nacac.org

National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
A comprehensive resource on all aspects of adoption.
www.calib.com/naic
330 C St. S.W.
Washington, DC 20447
888-251-0075 or 703-352-3488
fax: 703-385-3206
e-mail: NAIC@calib.com
www.calib.com/naic

Pact
A non-profit organization whose primary mission is "to serve children of color in need of adoption or who are growing up in adoptive families." Pact has set out to create the most comprehensive website addressing issues for adopted children of color, including many useful resources on transracial adoption. Pact has helped place more than 450 children in permanent, loving families and has counseled thousands of adopted adults, birth parents, foster parents. and adoptive parents.
Beth Hall, Co-Director
Pact, An Adoption Alliance
3220 Blume Drive Suite 289, Richmond, CA 94806
510-243-9460 Voice
510-243-9970 Fax
866-722-8257 Books & Education
800-750-7590 Birth Parent Line
888-448-8277 Adoptive Parent Peer Support
www.pactadopt.org
Email: info@pactadopt.org

International Adoption

U.S. State Department/Consular Affairs
www.travel.state.gov/adopt.html
The online brochure, International Adoptions, provides both information and guidance to US citizens seeking information about international adoptions.
Or contact:
Department of State
Office of Children's Issues (CA/OCS/CI)
2201 C Street, N.W.
SA-22, Room 2100
Washington, D.C. 20520-4818
Telephone: 202-736-7000
Fax: 202-312-9743
Autofax: 202-647-3000
Internet Address: http://travel.state.gov
Coordinates policy and provides information on international adoption to the public. In 1996, U.S. citizens adopted over 11,300 foreign born children. Because adoption is a private legal matter within the judicial sovereignty of the nation where the child resides, the Department of State cannot intervene on behalf of an individual U.S. citizen in foreign courts. We offer general information and assistance regarding the adoption process in over 60 countries.

Foster Care

Surrogacy

Growing Generations
5757 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 601
Los Angeles, CA 90036
1.323.965.7500 (telephone)
Fax: 323.965.0900
E-mail: family@GrowingGenerations.com
www.GrowingGenerations.com
323 965-7500

Gay Parenting Organizations

COLAGE (Children of Lesbian and Gays Everywhere), fostering "the growth of daughters and sons of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents of all racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds by providing education, support and community on local and international levels, to advocate for our rights and those of our families, and to promote acceptance and awareness that love makes a family." State-by-state gay fathers groups, sponsors annual Family Weeks, one in Provincetown, MA, the other in Saugatuck, MI.
3543 18th Street, #1
San Francisco CA 94110
Phone: (415) 861-KIDS (5437)
Fax: (415) 255-8345
E-mail: colage@colage.org
www.colage.org

Center Kids, a program run by New York's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center to advocate at state and local levels for the rights of alternative families.
208 West 13th Street, New York 10011, 212.620.7310
www.gaycenter.org

Adoption Agencies Used by the Families in this Book

Family Builders, 528 Grand Avenue, Oakland, California 94610
Phone: (510) 272-0204
FAX: (510) 272-0277
Email: kids@familybuilders.org

Family Focus
54-40 Little Neck Parkway
Little Neck, NY 11362
718 224-1919

Friends in Adoption
44 South Street
P.O. Box 1228
Middletown Springs, VT 05757-1228
(802)-235-2373
1-800-844-3630
fia@friendsinadoption.org

Friends in Adoption International
The Maltex Building
431 Pine Street #7
Burlington, VT 05401
(802)-865-9886

Black Adoption Services

Three Rivers Adoption Council
307 Fourth Avenue
Suite 710
Pittsburgh, PA 15222 o 412-471-8722 phone o 412-471-4861 fax
http://www.3riversadopt.org

Therapists

Dr. Stephanie Schacher
Dr. Stephanie Schacher is a psychologist who does research and is in private practice,
with gay dads and their families and men contemplating becoming fathers.
She is quoted in the introduction of Gay Dads.
She can be reached at s.schacher@att.net or (212) 305-4961

Film and Video

Daddy & Pappa
Video produced and directed by Johnny Symons showing heartwarming examples of the Gay Dads phenomenon.
www.daddyandpappa.com