Adoption STAR’s Director of Adoption Kathy Crissey shares a piece of beautiful poetry that would never have been written without an adult daughter a...
Placing a Child for Adoption
Two different perspectives on making the decision to place a child for adoption – a birth mother offers one perspective while a birth grandmother of...
Adoption STAR Staff Responses: This Month’s Film Clip
Here are some Adoption STAR staff responses to the latest film clip we watched as a part of our TV/Film clip-viewing project. See our Facebook post on...
Adoption STAR to attend the Women’s Business Center Festival
Adoption STAR is a proud to be actively involved with Canisius College’s Women’s Business Center. More specifically, Adoption STAR’s Development...
For Professionals: Accessing Community Resources
The following information has been taken from the Understanding Infant Adoption Participant Handbook. The author of the handbook (Spaulding for Childr...
Family Support Summit
This FREE event is happening in Buffalo on Tuesday, August 12th and might be incredibly helpful for parents of school-aged children with special needs...
A Family for Every Child
Although our agency is full of seasoned adoption professionals, there is always the opportunity for additional learning. As a former teacher herself, ...
Benefits of Open Adoption
Here’s information from Adoption STAR’s Adoptive Parent Education Manual that discusses some important realities about openness in adoption. “Wh...
Keep Your Knees Bent
It was the night before my wedding and everything was planned down to the finest of details. As I was talking to the wedding coordinator at rehearsal ...
Books Reviews by Adoption STAR Staff – Teen-Specific Literature
Folks that regularly read our agency’s monthly e-newsletter may have caught a series of brief book summaries recently written by Chris Fancher. One ...