Welcome to the Resource Library

This Resource Library is a collection of books, tapes, and DVDs, as well as instantly downloadable items, such as newsletters and tip sheets. You will find a wide variety of topics related to foster care, kinship caregiving, adoption, and more.

Wisconsin families and professionals are welcome to check out physical materials from our library for free (electronic items are available to all for free and on demand). The requested materials will be shipped to you with a postage-paid return envelope. You can help us serve more people by sending along a check for the amount of postage, if possible. You may check out four (4) items at a time and keep them for three (3) weeks.

Tables of Contents

To help you navigate our rich library of free downloadable resources, we have created some table of contents documents that we hope you find helpful.

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Milk and Cookies

Ages 4-8 Baby Bear and his parents are having a sleepover at his grandparentâ€™s house when he hears a scary noise. He looks through the cellar door keyhole and sees […]

Caregiver’s Handbook for Money Pal’s, Being Cool with Cash and I Know Where I’m Going, But Will my Cash Keep Up

Written for caregivers of foster youth, this guide helps foster kids prepare for the future by helping them understand how to use money wisely. It encourages money management through specific […]

Seeds of Love: For Brothers and Sisters of International Adoption

Description “When Carly’s parents go to China to adopt her new baby sister, they give her some seeds to plant so that she will know when to expect them back.”

Soul Moon Soup

In this volume of connected poems, Johnson (Hurricane Henrietta) crystallizes the emotions of a homeless girl, who describes herself as “fading fast” as she loses sight of hope. In the […]

Slam Dunk: A Young Boy’s Struggle with Attention Deficit Disorder

Description “Slam Dunk is a story about Toby Butler’s struggle to succeed in school. With the help of his parents, teachers, and concerned health-care professionals, Toby learns about ADD and […]

Small Feats

This book is about accomplishments, heroics, and foster and adoptive parents. In a nutshell, it’s about “everyday heroes.” While foster and adoptive parents don’t often think of themselves as heroes, […]

Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul

Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul will touch your heart with stories of finding and creating families. From tales about international orphaned babies and children who spent years in the […]

Finding Fernanda

The dramatic story of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother Over the last decade, nearly […]

Creative Loving Attachments

All children need love, but for troubled children, a loving home is not always enough. Children who have experienced trauma need to be parented in a special way that helps […]