Martha Crawford is a Psychotherapist and has experience working with adoptive families and adult adoptees, she is also an adoptive mother. One thing t...
Adoption In the News: “Florida Receives Adoption Incentive Award”
The Florida Department of Children and Families was recently awarded an “Adoption Incentive” Federal Grant of $3.8 million. According to a...
Going through the Adoption Process
This post was written Adoption STAR CEO and Founder, Michele Fried. Many pregnant women considering adoption (expectant parents) wonder what the proce...
Financial Planning for The Adoptive Family Seminar
On Tuesday January 10, Adoption STAR will be hosting a seminar at its Buffalo office (47 Plaza Dr. Williamsville) entitled “Financial Planning f...
Adoption STAR Promotes Zack Fried: Being An Adoptee Inspired His Career Choice
At the age of twelve, Zack received his first invitation to speak to a group of social workers working in the field of adoption. He engaged the audien...
The December Podcast: Infant Adoption Awareness Training Project!
Each month Adoption STAR releases a new podcast on adoption-related topics. During National Adoption Month we released a two-part podcast with a famil...
Being Open and Honest About Adoption
Judy Lewis, the daughter of Loretta Young and Clark Gable passed away recently. Young gave birth to Lewis as a young single actress in Hollywood, and ...
Parenting a child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
This is the second in a two-part blog series on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Click here to read part one on the prevention of and signs and symptoms of F...
Most common baby names in 2011
The most popular baby names from 2011 were recently released, and the number one boy’s name was Mason and the number one girl’s name was E...
The Signs and Symptoms of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
This is the first in a two-part blog series on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. To read part one on the prevention of and signs and symptoms of Fetal Alcohol S...