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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Visiting Day

Only on Visiting Day do I get to tell Daddy everything that has happened over the month, while I sit in his lap and he pulls on my braids… On […]

Another Mother: Co-Parenting with the Foster Care System

Being a foster parent, despite all the personal joys, is often a complex and frustrating process of “”co-parenting”” with the “”system.”” Foster parents are in great demand, but they are […]

Welcome Home: A Guide For Adoptive, Foster and Treatment Foster Parents

There are plenty of books on adoption and foster care. But what really works? You are not only providing a child with a home. You are also showing them what […]

Family Connections

Interviews with foster care alumni and adoptive parents describing the importance of youth maintaining connections with significant people from their past.

Knowing Who You Are

Helping youth in care develop their racial and ethnic identity. A healthy racial and ethnic identity provides an anchor and solid foundation for youth to become productive, independent and well […]

Endless Dreams

The Endless Dreams video showcases the great potential of schools to support and enrich the lives of youth in care. The video features a young woman in care and describes […]

Orphan Trains, The

In the mid-1800s, 10,000 homeless children prowled the streets of New York City – sleeping in stairwells, in stables, or on the docks. In 1853, a young minister, Charles Loring […]

Lying

Lying is the single most common child behavior problem reported by foster parents. In this program parents learn to understand and deal with this frustrating issue by looking at four […]

Parenting a Child with ADHD

Learn how to recognize symptoms, manage meds, establish sypport teams.

Kids in the Syndrome Mix of ADHD, LD, Asperger’s, Tourette’s, Bipolar, & mo

Kids in the Syndrome Mix is a concise, scientifically up-to-date, all-in-one guide to the whole range of often co-existing neuro-behavioral disorders in children – from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), […]