COUNSELING
Children’s Service Society of Utah provides individual and family counseling to anyone touched by adoption. We have professional and personal experience in post-adoption therapy with transracial and international adoptions, special needs adoption, kinship adoptions, foster care adoptions, older child adoptions, open adoptions, and infant adoptions. We also have expertise in attachment issues, trauma histories, and birthparent advocacy and support.
- The fee is $80 an hour (sliding scale fee available upon need for birthparents)
- We are located at 655 East 4500 South, Suite 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84107
- Call 801-326-4391 or email tara@cssutah.org for more information.
BOOKS
- The Connected Child by Dr. Karyn Purvis
- Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction by Sharon Roszia and Allison Davis Maxon
- The Girls Who Went Away-The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann Fessler
- A Child’s Journey Through Placement by Vera Fahlberg
- Being Adopted: The lifelong Search for Self by Brodzinsky, Schechter & Hening
- Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew by Sherrie Eldridge
- In On It: What Adoptive Parents Would Like You to Know About Adoption. A Guide for Relatives and Friends by Elisabeth O’Toole
- Because I Loved You: A Birthmother’s View of Open Adoption by Patricia Dischler
- The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child by Nancy Newton Verrier
- The How & the Why by Cynthia Hand
- You Don’t Look Adopted by Anne Heffron
- Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies That Really Work by Robyn Gobbel
- Utah’s Adoption Connection Lending Library—A free library of more than 1,000 books regarding adoption, parenting, childhood trauma and more.
SUPPORT GROUPS
Adoptee Support Group
Children’s Service Society’s Free Adult Adoptee Support Group
655 East 4500 South, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84107
Call 801-326-4408 or email tara@cssutah.org to sign up
Teen Adoptee Support Group
Children’s Service Society’s Free Teen Adoptee Support Group, ages 13-18
655 East 4500 South, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84107
Call 801-326-4408 or email tara@cssutah.org to sign up
Adoptive Family Support Group
Children’s Service Society’s Free Adoptive Family Support Group
655 East 4500 South, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84107
Call 801-326-4408 or email tara@cssutah.org for more information
Birthmother Support Group
United for Adoption Birth Parent Support Group
655 East 4500 South, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84107
Call 801-326-4408 or email tara@cssutah.org for more information
Infertility Support Groups
Find an Infertility Support Group
ONLINE RESOURCES
Adoption:
Local/State Resources:
National Resources:
Articles:
Foster Care:
Local/State Resources:
Regional Resources:
- Raise the Future (formerly The Adoption Exchange)
Infertility:
Local/State Resources:
Supporting Caregivers in Helping Children Who Have Experienced Trauma and/or Maltreatment:
National resources:
CSS is a proud member of the American Adoption Congress, United for Adoption, the National Council for Adoption, the Utah Adoption Council, and the North American Council on Adoptable Children.
Know an expectant parent or birth parent? We offer free options counseling. We can help with private, independent, and agency adoptions. Call us at 801-656-8527. Email at admin@cssutah.org.
