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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Another Place At The Table

With so much awful publicity surrounding foster parenting, Harrison’s story of opening her home to foster children, three of whom she later adopted, is tender and inspiring. It is also […]

Sexualized Child in Foster Care, The

This practical guide, written for foster parents and other child welfare professionals, gives information, training tips, and a wide range of resources for dealing with foster children who have been […]

Zachary’s New Home

Zachary, a little kitten, is confused and concerned. He doesn’t understand why he has to move from his first family to a foster family and then to an adoptive family. […]

From Chaos to Calm: Effective Parenting of Challenging Children with ADHD and Other Behavioral Problems

All children are challenging some of the time. But when kids are challenging all of the time – because they suffer from ADHD, OCD, depression, or other disorders that affect […]

Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust & Love

Healing Parents gives parents and caregivers the information, tools, support, self-awareness, and hope they need to help a wounded child heal emotional wounds and improve behaviorally, socially, and morally. This […]

Adoption Lifebook: A Bridge to Your Child’s Beginnings (2nd edition)

Guide to making an international lifebook.

Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child

A lifebook is a collection of words, photos, graphics, artwork and memorabilia that creates a life record for a child who was adopted. It is a simple, truthful story written […]

Eating Disorders

Children in foster care often have very serious issues around food. In the training program, Dr Richard Delaney helps parents identify and understand eating disorders and offers some creative yet […]

Inside Transracial Adoption

Inside Transracial Adoption provides creative, confident, pro-active, and provocative guidance for parents who are experienced veterans or who are considering transracial adoption for the first time. Whether through domestic or […]

Positive Discipline: Without Shaking, Shouting or Spanking

The frustrations of parenting often lead to shaking, shouting and spanking. In this series parents learn how to use positive discipline techniques instead of more harmful practices to get the […]