Regional Photolistings

Cherokee Nation Adoption Services

Cherokee Nation Indian Child Welfare (ICW) strives to place Indian children with Indian families. ICW provides adoption services for Cherokee children who cannot be cared for by their birth parents and who need and can benefit from new and permanent family ties established through legal adoption.

Site URL: www.cherokeekids.org

Northwest Adoption Exchange

The Northwest Adoption Exchange facilitates adoptive placements for waiting children in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

Site URL: www.nwae.org

The Adoption Exchange

The Adoption Exchange is based in the Rocky Mountain region and provides the connection between families who adopt and children who wait. The Adoption Exchange currently has 5 localities in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Missouri, and Nevada, and presents photolistings of children from those states plus Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming.

Site URL: www.adoptex.org

The Heart Gallery of America

The mission of Heart Gallery of America Inc. is to facilitate and utilize the power of photography to capture the individuality and dignity of children living in foster care, in order to advocate for their permanency, raise public awareness about their needs, and obtain support to help meet those needs.

Site URL: www.heartgalleryofamerica.org

Three Rivers Adoption council (TRAC)

TRAC's mission is to improve adoption opportunities for all children growing up without permanent, caring families. Operated out of Pittsburgh, PA, the TRAC Exchange is a listing of waiting children and homestudied families.

Site URL: www.3riversadopt.org

Wednesday's Child

The Freddie Mac Foundation sponsored Wednesday's Child television feature is a program on the air in 6 U.S. cities that helps find adoptive families by featuring waiting children in weekly television spots. Cities are Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C.

Site URL: www.adopt.org/wednesdayschild