Welcome to the Resource Library

About 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.

Questions? Comments? Please e-mail info@wifamilyconnectionscenter.org

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Growing Up Black

The vivid recollections of childhood in this book reveal what it was like to grow up black in white America. From slave days to the present – 25 African American […]

Child With Special Needs (The)

Based upon two decades of practice and original research into developmental disabilities, this essential work helps parents and professionals “”get beyond the label”” and understand each child’s unique profile. The […]

Building A Home Within

Meeting the Emotional needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care. Resource to help therapists address the emotional needs of children and adolescents in foster care.

Bears (The)

Talking about feelings is one of the cornerstones of emotional literacy. Here are 48 colorful, loveable cartoon characters. Use these cards to communicate. There are no words on the cards […]

Girls in Trouble

Sara, sixteen, is in denial about her pregnancy and too far along for an abortion. Her once-devoted boyfriend has disappeared so Sara decides her only option is an open adoption […]

Loving Through Bars

In Loving Through Bars: Children with Parents in Prison, Cynthia Martone offers a searing and poignant view of these unfortunate kids, presenting their particular plights through a series of stories. […]

The Girls Who Went Away

In this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann brings out into the open for the first time the astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered […]

Slow Way Home

Wise beyond his years, Brandon understands he’s the only one in this world he can count on. It’s an outlook that serves him well the day his mama leaves him […]

Secret of Me

Being adopted is a fact of life in the McLane household: fourteen year old Lizzie as well as her older brother and sister were adopted as infants. But facts are […]