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Honoring the Holiday Traditions of Children in Care When you ask people, “What’s the best thing about the holidays?” you’ll probably hear “being with family.” Or a story about their […]

Finding Support After Adoption Articles in this edition include: Finding Support After Adoption Staying Connected with Social Media Download: Partners Winter 2013

“Flux: Life After Foster Care is FCAA’s new book! It is a real labor of love from more than 100 members of the alumni community to our younger brothers and […]

Hootah is a young mother owl whose life-style issue renders her an ineffective parent. Try as she might, she is unable to overcome those problems. Eventually, the great Parliament of […]

“A young African-American girl describes the familiar mother-daughter nightly ritual of combing the tangles out of her hair. When she cries because it hurts, her sympathetic mother tells her how […]

“Behavior with a Purpose provides a practical understanding of and clinically relevant interventions for common problems of youth in adoptive, foster and kinship homes. Specific attention is placed on food […]

“Twelve-year-old Paula Kyle was still mourning the death of her mother a little over a year before when, in 1974, she found herself riding down the road in a stranger’s […]

“The prolific use of drugs to treat ADHD stirs heated debate in therapy and parenting circles today. Is this medication really going to improve my son’s symptoms? How best can […]

Sunny is the story of Mandy, a foster child, who is given a puppy. Struggling with her own emotions of loss and belonging, Mandy tries to return the puppy to its […]

Richly textured with memories from her own childhood and married life with her husband, John Gregory Dunne, and her daughter, Quintana Roo, this new book by Joan Didion is an […]