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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Lucky Ones (The)

A5631 From the early stages of the adoption process to bringing the child back home, this collection of personal stories reveals why parents who have adopted children from China feel—despite […]

Raising Your Spirited Child

In this companion workbook, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka brings readers into her world-famous workshops, where she offers parents and educators insights, emotional support and proven strategies for dealing with spirited children. […]

Now We Are One

More than 20,000 children immigrate to the United States each year to begin a new life with adoptive parents. Most are quite young–less than a year old–and nine out of […]

How I Became A Big Brother

How I Became A Big Brother? Is a children’s book that explains adoption to young children. It is a simple story of how a little boy who doesn’t have any […]

English American (The)

When Pippa Dunn,adopted as an infant and raised terribly British, discovers that her birth parents are from the American South, she finds that “culture clash” has layers of meaning she’d […]

Hope’s Boy

In this memoir of a decade spent in foster care, Bridge illuminates the horrors of a system that, in its clumsy attempts to save children, he argues, all too frequently […]

A Place In My Heart

Charlie was adopted, and he wonders about the same things that many adopted children think about. What do my birthparents look like? Do they think about me? Can I give […]