Wendy Lane. LMT, MSW, recaps a staff training on the Basic Principles of Counseling: Focusing on Grief taught by a professor of Counseling and Educati...
Wordless Wednesday: Back to School
It’s time again for Wordless Wednesday. On Wordless Wednesdays, we enjoy pictures of families joined through adoption. Today’s theme is &#...
There is No Recipe for a Perfect Child
In today’s blog post, we look at the importance of Adoption Education. Adoption STAR’s Home Study Classes offer Prospective Adoptive Paren...
Apgar Score: What is it?
As Adoption STAR readies itself for it’s upcoming series of Home Study classes (for more information on these classes visit our Calendar of Even...
A Portrait of Open Adoption: Part 2
You may have read A Portrait of Open Adoption: Part 1 and had some questions or reservations. Maybe Open Adoption seemed like a strange concept or may...
A Portrait of Open Adoption
In this two part blog post, Adoptive Parent Mentor Sue Reardon gives us a glimpse into the Open Adoption she shares with her children’s Birth Mo...
The Importance of Valuing Post Adoption Support
By our International Adoption Coordinator Megan Montgomery, LMSW Through each step of life, humans seek out connections with others who are in similar...
Feeding Your Baby (Part Two)
In this two-part article, Adoption STAR will explore breastfeeding and formula feeding the adopted newborn. The second part of this article, we will a...
Feeding Your Baby
In this two-part article, Adoption STAR will explore breastfeeding and formula feeding the adopted newborn. The first part of this article, we will ad...
Cost Comparisons with Surrogacy and Adoption
There are many options that individuals and couples can consider when they wish to parent. Surrogacy, domestic adoption, international adoption and fo...