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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I Have Roots and Branches

While the process of adoption has been receiving increasingly greater attention, the feelings of those touched by adoption are often overlooked. This new documentary style film features adoptees ranging in […]

Hidden Victims: Children of Domestic Violence

Hosted by actor Dylan McDermott, this noholds barred video profiles the effects of domestic violence on children in four families and explores their lives as they struggle with issues perpetuating […]

Adoption & Prenatal Alcohol and Drug Exposure

D2423 As professionals become more aware of the impact of prenatal substance exposure on children who are being adopted, there is a heightened need for understanding a range of issues […]

Our Own: Adopting & Parenting the Older Child

In this book, an adoptive mother draws on her own experiences, extensive research, and interviews with adoptive families, grown adoptees, and professionals to create a memorable collection of practical tips […]

Let’s Talk

Teens write about group home staff, caseworkers, social workers, teachers and foster parents who have helped them (and some who haven’t). Foster youth expect much from staff, including emotional support […]

Safe Place to Live, (A)

This book is an illustrated story written for children ages two to seven about a family that moves out of an abusive home into a safe place. Told from a […]

Mother for Choco (A)

Choco, a young bird living all alone in the forest, wants desperately to find his mother. At first he feels sure that she must look precisely like him, and searches […]

Mulberry Bird (The): Story of an Adoption

Aimed at younger adoptees, THE MULBERRY BIRD is an enchanting story about a mother bird who decides to place her baby bird for adoption. It explains why a birthmother might […]

Forever Child: A Tale of Anger & Fear, The

This is a tale about a young boy named Jean Paul. He was abandoned at a tender age by uncaring relatives after his parents had died from hunger and cold. […]

Forever Child: A Tale of Lies & Love, The

This is a story about a little girl called Ruby Rose who was abandoned in the forest and left for dead. Luckily, she was found by seven fairy godsisters who […]