Category: Adoption Tips
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Post-Adoption Services: Preparing for Korean Regulation Changes
With new Korean adoption regulations taking effect in July 2025, we recognize the increasing importance of post-adoption support and birth family searches. New Beginnings, in partnership with Eastern Social Welfare Society (ESWS), will continue to provide these essential services to adoptees and their families. Key Actions for Families: Visits to ESWS/File Reviews/Foster Mother meetings: If…
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From Awareness to Action: Introducing Trauma-Informed Care into Parenting
Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) in parenting has never been more needed. TIC has evolved into its own model for parenting, characterized by reparative interactions with our children that offer them a path to healing that is as fresh as it is wise.
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Help Finance Your Adoption with Grants and Loans
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Understanding the Adoption Tax Credit – NCFA
The Adoption Tax Credit can significantly offset the costs and fees of an adoption process, but prospective adoptive parents need to ensure they understand the basics before determining how much it can help them. In this updated Guide to Understanding the Adoption Tax Credit, we explain what the ATC is, how it is different from…
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Adoption Finance 101, Hosted by NCFA
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Tech Tips for International Adoption Travelers
As a prospective adoptive parent, eventually, the time comes to travel abroad to meet your child. This is a wonderful and important time, and it can bring with it a whole range of experiences and emotions – hopes and joys, fears, and anxieties. Being prepared is essential, and in the modern era that means more…
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Putting Together A Care Package For Your Korean Child
It’s never too soon to start making a connection with your child before you travel for the first time to meet him. Care packages are a popular and effective way to begin a relationship with your child. Here are a few tips on what to include
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Is International Adoption Right for You?
International adoption remains a popular way of building your family. The decision to adopt a child from a foreign country is a life changing one for both you and the child here are some things to consider to see if this is right for you.
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Post-Adoption Reporting
New Beginnings would like to remind our adoptive parents how important it is to comply with the country of origin’s requirements for submitting post-adoption reports. We have reports from most families; but there are still some late reports needed for China.
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Budgeting for International Adoption
When you’ve made the decision to adopt, put together a financial plan before you begin the process. Adoptions come with the standard agency, legal and home study fees, but for international adoptions, there are additional travel, visa expenses and a fee to the foreign agency to consider.