42 U.S.C. § 679a — National Adoption Information Clearinghouse

The Secretary^* of Health and Human Services must establish a National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, either directly or through a grant or contract. The Clearinghouse must: (1) collect, organize, and maintain available research, studies, and reports from public and private agencies, institutions, or people about all aspects of infant adoption and adoption of children with special needs; (2) compile, maintain, and periodically update directories about (A) crisis-pregnancy centers, (B) shelters and residences for pregnant women, (C) adoption training programs, (D) adoption education programs, (E) licensed adoption agencies, (F) State^* adoption laws, (G) adoption between countries, and (H) other adoption information for pregnant women, infertile couples, adoptive parents^*, unmarried people who want to adopt, adopted people, birth parents who placed a child^* for adoption, adoption agencies, social workers, counselors, and others who work in adoption; (3) distribute the information and directories; and (4) after the adoption and foster-care data system under section 679 is established, distribute the data and information made available through that system.