Mental Health and Adoption Resources

Iowa Resources

For detailed information about children's mental health resources near you, call
Iowa COMPASS, 1-800-779-2001

• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Referral Directory
   
• Access for Special Kids Family Resource Center for Iowa children with disabilities and their families
   
• Area Education Agencies
   
• Community Mental Health Centers provide specialized outpatient services for children
   
• Center for Disabilities and Development Disability Resource Library, a free lending library of resources on children's health
   
• Iowa Consortium for Mental Health mental health resources

• Iowa Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health, an advocacy group for parents
   

• Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parent Association

  • To locate an IFAPA Adoption Information specialist near you
     

• Iowa Mental Health Recovery and Advocacy, at imhra@netins.net, for information about mental health services, hotline, statewide support groups.
   

• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) , Iowa affiliates - Key word search on IA
   

• National Mental Health Association, Iowa affiliates

Other Resources

• Disturbances of attachment in young children adopted from institutions (2000), J Dev Behav Peds 21:230-6.

• Initial assessment of growth, development, and the effects of institutionalization in internationally adopted children (2000), Pediatr Ann 29(4):224.

• International adoption: A primer for pediatric nurses (1998), Ped Nursing 24(6):578.

• International adoption clinics

• International adoptions: Implications for early intervention (1999). Inf & Young Child 11(4):34.  

• Language-related Issues for international adoptees and adoptive families (1999), in International Adoption: Challenges and Opportunities, 98-107.

• Key word search on “adoption” at National Library of Medicine Medline Plus

• Research on international adoption

• What health care providers need to know about language development in bilingual children (2004), EPSDT Care for Kids Newsletter 11(2):1-2. 

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