Library Assets

Have you ever felt a sense of dread and worry creeping over you? That might be the Panicosaurus coming out to play… Sometimes the Panicosaurus tricks Mabel’s brain into panicking […]

Encouraging and Supporting Tweens and Teens in Care Youth in foster care often feel different from their peers, and as they grow into the tween and teen years, chances are […]

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 adolescence, it […]

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 […]

Through interviews and observations of adoptive and non-adoptive family members and community leaders, this book explores the family dynamic, identity formation, cultural perceptions, and cultural receptions of transnational and transracial […]

A Marin County, California father embarks on a journey to understand what led his seventeen-year-old daughter, Casey, to take her life. He travels back to her abandonment at birth and […]