Adoption STAR will be holding an Agency Assisted Private Adoption class on Thursday, August 18 from 6-8pm at the Colonie Community Center in Albany Ne...
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center’s International Adoption Center
The International Adoption Center at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital has been working with adoptive families since 1999 and specializes in famili...
Adoption STAR Book Club: “Born In Our Hearts”
I hope everyone enjoyed our first book club book “Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother.” The next book we will be reading is “Born In Our Heart...
Adoption In The News: Reunion 63 years later due to Facebook
Happy Friday everyone! Hope you all have great weekend plans with your friends and family. Helen Torres, an 80 year-old birth mother who made an adopt...
Hair Care Resources
Many parents ask us about hair care products and methods for their children, and Adoption STAR adoptive mother, Amanda S., provided us with several bl...
Making a Birth Plan
We have spoken a great deal about making an adoption plan for your child, but it is also important to have a plan for when you go into labor. You [&he...
Open Adoption: Post Adoption Contact
What is post adoption contact? It is another way of describing an open adoption, often within a written agreement between the adoptive parents and b...
“Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother” From an Adoptive Mother’s Perspective
This review of “Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive Mother” is from Dana Smith I read the book “Secret Thoughts of an Adoptive MotherR...
¡Buen Viaje!:Have a Safe Journey!
Written by Adoption STAR CEO and Founder, Michele Fried This was one of our many wishes for Naomi, our wonderful Administrative Assistant, who the Ado...
Meet Our Staff: Emma Widmer
For those who have not seen our new staff bio pages, we have recently added introduction videos for the staff members. I’d like to take the opportun...