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  • How Do I
    • Contact the Wisconsin Family Connections Center
    • Find Trainings, Events & Support Groups
    • Browse the Resource Library
    • Work with Child Protective Services (CPS)
    • Find Resources & Support as a Relative Caregiver
    • Become a Foster Parent
    • Learn More About Adoption
    • Make an Adoption Plan for My Child
  • I Am
    • Parent
    • Relative Caregiver
    • Foster Parent
    • Adoptive Parent
    • Adult Adoptee
    • Guardianship Family
    • Child Welfare Professional
    • Caring for a Native American Youth
    • Stepparent
    • Teen or Young Adult
  • Help Me Find
    • Birth Parent or Birth Family Support
    • Family Resources & Support
    • Training, Events & Support Groups
    • Short-Term Case Management
    • Resource Library
    • Current Recruitment Campaign Materials
    • Foster Care Licensing Contacts
    • Guardianship Information & Resources
    • LGBTQIA2S+ Resources
    • Mental Health Resources
    • Native & Tribal Resources
    • Resources for Relative Caregivers
    • Transracial Family Resources

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted May 8, 2025

Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care

If you’re wondering if God can truly move in the life of someone with all the odds stacked against her, look no further than Tori Hope Petersen. Tori grew up […]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted November 19, 2024

The Child Catcher – A Fight for Justice & Truth

The Child Catcher is the true story of the fight to rescue the children confined to a violent and secretive institution in the rural South. Andrew Bridge’s bestselling memoir, Hope’s Boy, told [...]

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By Cindy Diaz
In
Posted March 21, 2024

We Were Once a Family – A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Book Description The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children―and a searing indictment of the American foster care system. On March 26, 2018, [...]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted March 21, 2024

Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family

A heartrending and unforgettable memoir of an unlikely journey to parenthood through America’s broken foster care system. What does it take to keep a child safe? As a long-time strategist […]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted February 22, 2024

To The End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care

Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster […]

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 Virtual Resource Kit: Working With Birth Parents
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By Coalition for Children, Youth & Families
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Posted April 12, 2023

Virtual Resource Kit: Working With Birth Parents

Building, maintaining, and strengthening connections between birth parents and foster parents keeps the focal point on meeting the needs of children and youth in the child welfare system. We [...]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted November 10, 2022

You Are the Prize: Seeing Yourself Beyond the Imperfections of Your Trauma

You Are the Prize: Seeing Yourself Beyond the Imperfections of Your Trauma explores the journey and struggles in author Amnoni Myers’ life. She learned to succeed in a world full of […]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted September 22, 2022

The Black Foster Youth Handbook – 50+ Lessons I Learned to Successfully Age-Out of Foster Care and Holistically Heal

Foster Care is a whole other world that most of the world’s population knows little to nothing about. Many people do not know the very low statistics young people endure […]

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By Coalition for Children, Youth & Families
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Posted March 23, 2022

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Watch out world! The Great Gilly Hopkins is looking for a home. She’s a foster kid who’s been angry, lonely, and hurting for so long that’s she’s always ready for […]

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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted February 16, 2022

Lost In Child Welfare

In this memoir, 30-year-old Ashley shares her experience in foster care from the ages of four through fifteen. Ashley opens up about spine-chilling events that she has now processed in […]

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