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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FAW: Self-Care

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 […]

Partners: Taking Care of Yourself

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 […]

Partners: How Do We Use the Internet and Social Media?

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 […]

Broken Links, Enduring Ties – American Adoption Across Race, Class, and Nation

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 […]

Girl Behind the Door, The – A Father’s Journey Into the Mystery of Attachment

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 […]

Bubble Wrapped Children – How social networking is transforming the face of 21st century adoption

Numerous reasons cause adopted teenagers to reconnect with their birth family via Facebook, creating new challenges for adoption today and tomorrow. Incorporating theory, practice, anecdotes, metaphors, diagrams, models and case […]

Different Home, A – A new Foster Child’s Story

Written in simple language, this storybook is designed to help children aged 4-10 who are moving into care to settle in, and answer some of the questions they are likely […]

Foster Care and Social Networking

“Social networking has given people a means to make and sustain relationships in a way previously unheard of. Little wonder then that it is making an impact on foster family […]

Facing Up To Facebook – A survival Guide for Adoptive Families

“Facing up to Facebook examines the challenges faced by all parties involved in contact after adoption and looks at how adoptive parents can help children satisfy their need to know […]

Social Networking and You

“Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Skype – for many children and young people, life without these and other social networking platforms is almost unthinkable! This booklet for adopted and long-term fostered […]