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 Fostering Older Youth in Wisconsin
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By Cornershop Creative
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Posted December 11, 2025

Fostering Older Youth in Wisconsin

Download PDF Understanding the Needs of Older Youth in Foster Care “I need hope that things will be better.” Older youth in foster care are looking for hope, and foster […]

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 We Were Once a Family – A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
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By Cindy Diaz
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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 Jenna Czaplewski
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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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 The Black Foster Youth Handbook – 50+ Lessons I Learned to Successfully Age-Out of Foster Care and Holistically Heal
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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 Jenna Czaplewski
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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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By Cindy Diaz
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Posted February 16, 2022

Home for A While

Calvin is in foster care, and he wants to trust someone, anyone, but is afraid to open his heart. He has lived in a lot of houses, but he still […]

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 FAW: Resilience & Self-Care
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By Jenna Czaplewski
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Posted June 11, 2021

FAW: Resilience & Self-Care

You are a foster parent. Perhaps you’ve been doing this for a long time. Or, maybe you are newly licensed or have just finished your first placement. Perhaps you’re a […]

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