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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What Works in Foster Care?

On any given day, nearly half a million children are served by foster care services in the U.S. at an annual cost of over $25 billion. Growing demand and shrinking […]

Foster Parenting Toolbox, The

What do you need to meet the needs of the children in your care? Each child will be unique and require a different set of tools in your toolbox. Covering […]

Why Do They Act That Way? A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen

This book explains the changes in teens brains and shows parents how to use this information to understand, communicate with, and stay connected to their kids.

Success as A Foster Parent: Everything you Need to Know About Foster Care

Over 600,000 American children are in the foster care system each year, and the number is growing. So is the number of good-hearted people willing to become foster parents. But […]

Fostering Changes: Myth, Meaning and Magic Bullets in Attachment Theory

(3rd Edition) In this new edition of the classic Fostering Changes, Dr. Delaney continues to enlighten, equip, and encourage parents and professionals who work with emotionally disturbed foster and adopted […]

A 3-D View of Foster, Kinship, And Adopted Children

A 3-D View examines the “”big picture”” of troubled foster, kinship and adopted children. Eschewing a single, narrow perspective of these struggling children, the authors support a three-dimensional viewpoint. The […]

A Crucial Connection: Working Together to Address Teen Pregancy Among Youth

Girls in foster care are 2.5 times more likely to get pregnant than girls in general. Almost half of girls in foster care have been pregnant at least once by […]

Running Away

Each year 800,000 children between the ages of 10 and 18 run away from home and are reported missing-that’s one out of seven kids! In Running Away, Dr. Rick Delaney […]

Aging Out: Bound and Determined

Escaping an abusive home, Daniella Anderson entered foster care at 16. At 19, she had a son, a job and hopes for college. Now she’s struggling to fend for herself. […]

Aging Out: Declaration of Independence

Eighteen-year-old David Griffin has lived in 21 foster homes since birth. Intelligent, unpredicatable and self-destructive, he feels suffocated by a system that won’t let him be independent. He goes AWOL, […]