Resources
Not finding what you’re looking for? Want to learn more? Check out these resources we’ve compiled!*
We also share many events and resources in our monthly newsletters which you can sign up for here and view past newsletters here!
*Please note Adoption Mosaic does not formally endorse any of these resources. We are not responsible for your experience with them.
Events
Podcasts
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Adoptees On hosted by Haley Radke
Black to the Beginning Podcast Dr. Samantha Coleman & Sandria Washington
Once Upon a Time in Adopteeland (Host Jennifer Dyan Ghoston was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptees and Parenting and BIPOC Same-Race Adoptees panels)
Labor of Love (Co-host Nari Baker was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptees and Parenting panel and co-host Robyn Park was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptee Podcast Hosts panel)
Janchi Show (Co-host Patrick Armstrong was featured on our We the Experts: Transracial Adoptees & Identity panel and co-host Nathan Nowack was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptee Podcast Hosts panel)
When They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of Adoptees (Host Lanise Antoine Shelley was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptee Podcast Hosts panel)
Pulled by the Root (Host Heidi Marble was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptee Podcast Hosts panel)
Adoptees Dish (Co-host Marcella Moslow was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptee Podcast Hosts panel)
People & Orgs
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Korean American Adoptee and Adoptive Family Network (KAAN)
Harlow’s Monkey (run by JaeRan Kim who was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptee Scholars panel) is a fabulous blog full of resources and reflections from her life.
Therapeutic
Movies/Videos
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In the Matter of Cha Jung Hee (Producer, writer and director Deann Borshay Liem was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptee Documentarians)
My Name is Not Amy (Dewi Marquis was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptee Documentarians)
Who Killed Malcom X? (Producer and director Phil Bertelsen was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptee Documentarians)
You Follow (Nisha Jalmi was featured on our We the Experts: Adoptee Documentarians)
Books
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Adoption Unfiltered by Sara Easterly, Kelsey Vander Vliet Raynard, and Lori Holden (Sara was featured on our We the Experts panel: Adoptees and Religion while Kelsey was featured on a We the Experts Non-adoptee panel: Birth/First Parents panel)
See No Color, Botched, and The Girl Who I Am, Was, and Never Will Be by Shannon Gibney (Shannon was featured on our We the Experts panel: Adoptee Authors panel)
An Adoptee Lexicon by Karen Pickell (Karen was featured on our We the Experts panel: Adoptee Authors panel)
Disrupting Kinship by Kimberly McKee (Kimberly was featured on our We the Experts panel: Adoptee Authors panel)
You’ll Always Be White To Me by Garron Wade (Garron was featured on our We the Experts panel: Adoptee Authors panel)
The Heart of the Matter by Maya Luque (Maya was featured on our We the Experts panel: Adoptee Authors panel)
Birth/First Parents
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Concerned United Birthparents (CUB)
Saving Our Sisters (Renee Gelin the president of SOS was featured on a We the Experts Non-Adoptee panel: Birth/First Parents panel)
Big Tough Girl (Ashley Mitchell the owner of Big Tough Girl was featured on a We the Experts Non-Adoptee panel: Birth/First Parents panel)
Adoptive Parents
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At Adoption Mosaic we believe listening to the voices of adoptees and birth/first parents are excellent resources.
Take a look at our We the Experts Adoptee and Non-adoptee Speaker recordings library or register for our next panel where we feature adoptees, birth/first parents, and other constellation members sharing their experiences.
We also offer Consultations and Courses for adoptive parents.
If our services are not for you then we would be happy to provide other people, organizations, and options. Please contact us.
More
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For folks who were conceived via surrogacy, IVF, donor conception, Non-Parental Events (NPEs), or Misattributed Parental Experience (MPE) we recommend checking out Untangling Our Roots or Right to Know.
For the adult children of adoptees, check out our We the Experts Non-Adoptee panels where we have featured the adult biological children of adoptees such as navigating Extended Adoptive Family Relationships, Race, and 2nd Gen.
Interested in learning more?
Schedule a free 15 min consultation with Astrid.