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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Adoption is a Family Affair! What Relatives & Friends Must Know

Answers questions, offers information about who can adopt, why adoption should be considered, how kids understand adoption as they grow up and more.

Adoption is a Family Affair!

What relatives and friends must know. This book will answer questions for family and friends about who can adopt, why people adopt, how people adopt, how kids understand adoption and […]

Coffee Can Kid, The

As Annie and her adoptive father go through the treasured contents of an old coffee can, she establishes a connection to her past and her origins, and comes to terms […]

Two Birthdays for Beth

What child wouldn’t want two birthdays? Beth surely does! When she hears again her adoption arrival story with excitement and celebration surrounding her coming home, Beth misunderstands. She can’t wait […]

Colors of Us, The

What a fun way to celebrate racial differences! Take a walk with Lena among her friends and neighbors and end up with a smorgasboard of skin tones: “”Cinnamon, chocolate, and […]

Adoption Is a Family Affair! What Relatives & Friends Must Know

Answers questions, offers information about who can adopt, why adoption should be considered, how kids understand adoption as they grow up, and more.

Post-Adoption Blues, (The) :Overcoming the Unforseen Challenges of Adoption

The path to parenting through adoption is rich with rewards and fulfillment. This compassionate, illuminating and ultimately uplifting book offers solutions for the normal but unspoken stress that adoptive families […]

Don’t Give Me That Attitude

Effective, practical, and hands on approach to help you work with your child to fix that very annoying but widespread youthful characteristic attitude.

Parenting Someone Else’s Child: The Foster Parents’ How To Manual

Ann Stressman wrote this book after hearing Ruby Payne speak about the hidden rules of economic class, combining that perspective into her two decades of personal experience with foster care […]

Parenting At The Speed Of Teens: Positive Tips On Everyday Issues

Packed with real dilemmas parents and caregivers face daily, this book helps you reframe each situation positively, answers questions in an upbeat, constructive way and offers plenty of encouragement and […]