Tip Sheets
- What Grief & Loss Look Like for Children & Youth in Care
- The Challenges of Foster Care: Grief & Loss
- Grief and Loss: Making Space for Healing
- Helping Children Cope with Loss
- Is It Grief: Why Challenging Behaviors May be Signs of Grieving
- Shared Parenting: Putting the Needs of Children First
- Preparing the Kids in Your Home for Fostering
- Learning to Let Go: Coping with Reunification Anxiety
Courses & Webinars
- Weathering the Storm of Grief and Loss in Foster Care and Adoption
- Foster Parents Supporting Birth Parents: Considerations for Success
- Starting a Virtual Support Group: The Basics
- Let’s Talk: Partnering with Birth Parents
- Let’s Talk: Reunification
- Working in Partnership with Birth Parents
- Grief & Loss in Foster Care & Adoption
- Everyday Healing: Naming Adversity and Loss
No Matter What Families Videos
Other Library Resources
- Fostering Across Wisconsin newsletter: Foster Care, Grief, and Loss
- In My Heart, by Holly Band
- Maybe Days, by Jennifer Wilgocki and Marcia Kahn Wright
- A Knock on the Door: Stories by Biological Parents Who Have Children in Foster Care
Additional Web Resources
- Letter to a Foster Parent
- Saying Goodbye to Foster Children with Gratitude Instead of Grief
- Preparing to Say Goodbye to Another Foster Child
- Saying Goodbye
- Supporting Foster Parents through Their Loss and Grief
- What I Learned in Grief Counseling as a Foster Parent
- Resource Parents Partnering with Birth Parents to Benefit Children
- Rise Magazine: Act Now, Pay Later
- Building a Positive Relationship with Birth Parents
- Trauma-Informed Parenting: What You Should Know
- Becoming Trauma-Informed Foster Parents
- Addressing the Impact of Foster Care on Biological Children and Their Families
- Fostering Families: Supporting Sons and Daughters of Foster Carers
- Exploring the Experience of Biological Children of Foster Parents