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Infertility Patients

• Adoption or Donor - Making the Decision - Judy Kotick, LCSW

• Counseling 'incomplete' families (for Professionals)

• Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind

• Don't be afraid, it's just Grief - IACCenter Client

• Holiday Gifts and the Family Building 2009-2010 - Joni Mantell, LCSW

• IAC Center Client Tips on Handling the Holidays

• Infertility and Adoption Support Groups: The Top 5 Benefits - Joni Mantell, LCSW

• Knowing When to Stop Trying - By Janet Jaffe, Ph.D.

• Living successfully with infertility - Janet Jaffe, Ph.D

• Loss is a Four-letter Word - Dr. Karel Kovnat-Adler

• Making the Transition from infertility to adoption - Joni Mantell, LCSW

• Notes from Dr. Teena Cahill - Dr. Teena Cahill

• Resilience Tips for Your Family Building Journey

• Should We Adopt?  Infertile Parents Face Their Options for Parenthood

• SurvivingInfertility - Joni Mantell, LCSW

• Talking to Your Child about their Donor Origins - Judith Kottick, LCSW

• The Road to Resilience - Dr. Teena Cahill

• Tips for Surviving Infertility - Joni Mantell, LCSW - Under infertility

Pre-adoption

• Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind

• Introduction to Post Adopt Agreements in New York

• Facebook Makes Adoption Easier

• Dear 2005 Me - A must read for pre-adoptive parents

• While You Are Waiting to Adopt

• Making Space: Clearing the Way for a New Beginning - Liz Lombardi

• Adoption Marketing: Thinking Out-Of-The-Box - Lynne Berman

• He Said She Said - Michael & Joy Goldstein

• An International Adoption Primer - Jane Cramer

• "The Orphan Doctor" - The Adoption Pediatrician- Dr. Jane Aronson

• Domestic Adoption - An Attorneys Perspective - Robin Fleischner, Esq.

• Domestic Adoption - The Path to Adoption - Aaron Britvain, Esq.

• "It's not like you are the one having the Baby" - IACCenter Client

• Adoption Lifebooks Basics (1/3) - Betsy Scherl

• Adoption Lifebooks Photograph & Memorabilia (2/3) - Betsy Scherl

• Adoption Lifebooks what to do while waiting (3/3) - Betsy Scherl

• How can Acupuncture help? - Mimi Vassilev-Baker

• Handling Grief During the Holidays - Susan Loscalzo, MA, LPC

• How the Hague Convention... Might affect you - Deborah Spivack, Esq N

• The Adoption Tax Credit -IACCenter Client

• Loss is a Four-letter Word - Dr. Karel Kovnat-Adler

• The Road to Resilience - Dr. Teena Cahill

• An Adoptive Dad Speaks about Making the Decision and Becoming a Parent

• Resilience Tips for Your Family Building Journey

• Why Use an Attorney by Robin Fleischner, Esq.

• IAC Center Client Tips on Handling the Holidays

• Affording Your Adoption - Joni Mantell, LCSW and Lynne Berman

• Creative Ways to Finance Your Adoption - Diane Wilburn

• Baby Care - Diane Wilburn

• Groups: The Top Five Benefits & FAQ - Joni Mantell, LCSW

• Adoption: Getting on the Same Page with Your Partner - Joni S. Mantell, LCSW

• Adoption: Staying Motivated and Inspired

Adoptive Families

• "The Myth of the Forever Family" Dawn Friedman

• Russian Orphans in U.S.: When Adopted Kids Can't Adapt

• Time Magazine article: Why Your DNA Isn't Your Destiny

• “The Orchid Gene”

• Lucky Girl Book Review

• Pieces of Me Book Review

• Minnesota Texas Adoption Research Project

• White Skin on My Hands

• Talking to Your Child About Adoption

• IAC Center Adoption Topics article Adoption and the Schools

• Ten Years After: Reflections on Returning to Guatemala - Sharie Verdu

• Transracial Adoption: It will Change Your Family Forever - Carolyn Berger, LCSW

• First Mother's Day

• First Father's Day

• The Backwards Lifebook - Joy Rees

• Holiday Gifts and the Family Building 2009-2010 - Joni Mantell, LCSW

• Becoming a "Public Family" -Jane Cramer, MSW

• The Unlikely Crusader - Parenting through Adoption - Ellen Glazer

• Girl's Return to Peru sparks effort to help orphans -CNN

• Parenting an adopted child -Interview: editors of "A Love Like no Other"

• Adoption and the schools - Joni Mantell, LCSW

• Family & Friends & the holidays - Joni Mantell, LCSW

• Letter From Korea - Daniel Kearns

• Ages and Stages in Adoption:  Implications for Parenting and Family

• Adoptive Parents Invest More than Biological Parents in Kids

• Personal Identity:  A Core Issue in Identity - Jeremy Robbi, M.A.

• Adoption Language - Daniel Lee Kearns

• Dr. Aronson's Worldwide Orphan Foundation's newsletters

• Beyond Cuisine and Traditional Dress:  Creating True Cultural Connections for Trans-racial adoptees - Ji In

• Juno:  Open Adoption, Closed  Communication - Bob Bammon, LCSW

• Open Adoption, How Open? - Joni S. Mantell, LCSW

• De-emphasis on Race in Adoption Is Criticized

• Sandcastles and Waves by Marni Denenberg, an Adult Adoptee

• Not Me by Danny O'Neill, an Adult Adoptee

• While You Are Waiting to Adopt by Joni Mantell, LCSW and Lauren Scheiner, LSW

• 5 Key Adoption issues for Children Ages 6 to 12 by Joni Mantell, LCSW

• Talking to Younger Adopted Kids about the Recession by Joni Mantell, LCSW

• What to do about Finance While You Wait - Barbara Christie, MBA, CFP

• Culinary and Cultural Delights - Mary Ann Post

• Groups: The Top Five Benefits & FAQ - Joni Mantell, LCSW

• Life Cycle Adoption Issues At A Glance Chart - Joni Mantell, LCSW

• Single Mother's By Choice Conference DVD's from their 30th Anniversary conference held in Brooklyn NY In October of 2011. While these will appeal to singles this may also appeal to you if your family is touched by third party reproduction or adoption as you will be able to learn from:

A DVD of a panel with Grown Children of single mother's through adoption and donor origins - The opportunity to hear grown children of donor origins has rarely been available, so this will appeal to both singles and couples.

A DVD of panel on Looking for Genetic Roots: All children have questions about their genetic heritage. About: Donor Sibs: Wendy and Ryan Kramer; Birth-families: Joni Mantell; Research: Rosanna Hertz

DVD of panel with Moms of Grown SMC Children: How they view being a SMC now that their children are grown.

DVD of a talk by Jane Mattes, Founder and Director of SMC: What We Have Learned — The Past 30 Years. How does growing up in an SMC family impact children

• Famous Adoptees

• Adoption: Staying Motivated and Inspired

Video Clips

• Introduction

• International Adoption Workshop 2006

• Crossing the Bridge as a New Metaphor

• When is Enough Enough? Dr. Andrea Braverman

• Lifebook Workshop dialogue between Joni Mantell and Carrie Kitze

• How to talk to children about adoption in an IAC Center Support Group run by Joni Mantell, LCSW

• An Adoptive Dad Speaking about Making the Decision and Becoming a Parent through adoption

• Adoption Videos from Crossing the Bridge from Infertility to Adoption

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