Resources Cited in the Promising Practices Guide
The Promising Practices Guide offers examples of effective practices for working with LGBT foster and adoptive parents. This handbook includes sample policies and tips from leaders of welcoming agencies, researchers in the field and LGBT adoptive and foster parents.
Adoption by Lesbians and Gays: A National Survey of Adoption Agency Policies, Practices, and Attitudes (Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, 2003)
Amicus Brief File in West Virginia Case, A Summary of Scientific and Professional Knowledge on Child Development and Same-Sex Parenting (NASW, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, NACAC, 2009)*
Assessing Lesbian and Gay Prospective Foster and Adoptive Families: A Focus on the Home Study Process, (Gerald P.Mallon, Child Welfare, v86 n2 p67-86 Mar-Apr 2007)
Best Practice Guidelines: Serving LGBT Youth in Out-of-Home Care (Shannan Wilber, Caitlin Ryan, and Jody Marksamer, Child Welfare League of America, 2006)
Creating Inclusive Services for LGBT Youth in Out of Home Care: Training Resources (Prepared by the Out of Home Youth Advocacy Council, March 2007) [PDF 51K]
Creating Kinship (Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Services, National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement, 1997)
Expanding Resources For Children: Is Adoption By Gays and Lesbians Part of the Answer for Boys and Girls Who Need Homes? (Jeanne Howard, Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, 2006)
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness (Nicholas Ray, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute, 2006)
Small Business Basics (Human Rights Campaign Foundation and National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, 2007)
Too High a Price: The Case Against Restricting Gay Parenting (ACLU, 2006)
*Additional resource that is not referenced in All Children - All Families Promising Practices Guide
