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Parenting Strategies for Teens and Tweens that Enhance Development Adolescence doesn’t discriminate between birth children, youth in foster care, or someone who was adopted. When it comes to [...]

Changing Schools–How Foster Parents Can Empower Children in Care Children who come into care face a lot of changes: new home, new parents, new siblings, and a new neighborhood. When […]

Adoption in the Classroom It’s that time of year: school’s in session, the air is getting crisp, summer activities are at an end, and homework and after-school activities are taking their […]

Self-Care When parents are asked why they became foster parents, the overwhelming response is, “to help children in need.” Parents who provide respite care have a similar motivation, and it […]

Keeping Your Buckets Full: Taking Care of Yourself in Good Times and Bad We have all been there. We are going along with our daily lives and everything feels good and […]

Adoption, Foster Care, Family . . . How Do We Use the Internet and Social Media? We live in a changing world. We don’t do research via books – we […]

Social Media: The Changing Face of Connections So much has – and continues to – change about the way we connect with friends and family members. What used to be […]

Who Am I? About Identity Growing up is hard work. And no matter the circumstances, every person struggles with finding their place in the world and figuring out just who […]

Working Together for Forever–The Benefits of Working with Birth Parents This issue of Partners focuses on relationships. The triad of birth parents, children (whether foster or adoptive), [...]

Adopting Beyond Age Every year, hundreds of waiting children age out of foster care without a family or some kind of permanence. Prior to that, many of these youth have spent years […]