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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I Am Jazz

“””This is an essential tool for parents and teachers to share with children whether those kids identify as trans or not. I wish I had had a book like this […]

Caring with Vitality – Yoga and Wellbeing for Foster Carers, Adopters and Their Families

Encouraging wellbeing in the entire family, this book shows how foster and adoptive parents can promote physical and emotional health for those in their care. It includes tips and techniques […]

Just for Now – Kids and the people of the court

What is CPS? What’s a court appointed special advocate? What is a judge? Why do I need a lawyer? What’s a foster parent? How long will I be here? When […]

Keeping Your Adoptive Family Strong – Strategies for Success

Welcoming a new child into the home through adoption is a life-altering experience — for the child, the parents, and everyone else in the family. Expectations and realities often differ […]

I Know Where I’m Going, But Will My Cash Keep Up? – Part 1

This financial guide gives teenagers in foster care a chance to learn about money, savings, banking, earnings, and how their values and attitudes about money will affect their future. Lots […]

I Know Where I’m Going, But Will my Cash Keep Up? Part 2

This workbook is designed to stimulate conversations with tween and young teenage foster kids about investing money, using a credit card and saving for the future. It deals with learning […]

FAW: The Many Emotions of Kinship Care

The Many Emotions of Kinship Care For a lot of kinship parents, the decision to change hats from being a grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, or sibling to being in a […]

Partners: Kinship Care

Kinship Care We are dedicating this issue to all the wonderful relatives who step up and care for their kin. Over the past five or more years, a greater emphasis has […]

Mismatched Alexander

Mismatched Alexander touches on a well-understood topic, our collective desire to fit in. Alexander is a bright and colorful tree frog, born in a pond with only green frogs. He […]

What I do Know

What I Do Know is a one-of-a kind book that speaks from a parent’s heart to an adopted child. The book’s repetition of ”I don’t know” and ”I do know” […]