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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Just Add One Chinese Sister

Postcards, photos, journal entries, official papers…these are all a part of the story of Claire’s arrival in the United States from her birth home in China. Claire and her mother […]

Mommy CEO (Constantly Evaluating Others)

160 pages, We have preventive maintance manuals, contracts and plans for almost all we possess. Instruction booklets come with just about everything except one of our most treasured possessions; our […]

Just A Little Different

A new kid has moved in next door to Little Critter and his family. He’s a nice kid but he’s just a little bit different: His mother is a rabbit […]

Sensory Sensitive Child

Unidentifies sensory processing problems often cause heartache in family struggling to understand their children’s misbehavior. Children with sensory problems range from battles over dressing to difficulty fuctioning in a busy […]

An Unlit Path

What happens when love is not enough? The answer lies in this true story of one family’s journey through the world of foster care and adoption within the United States. […]

Attaching in Adoption

Practical tools for today’s parents. This positive, but realistic book is an important resource for all adoptive families, at any stage of pre and post adoption. The focus on the […]

Life Givers

Framing the Birthparent Experience in open adoption. The author examines all the ways birthparents are marginalized in the adoption process. He examines the birthparent’s emotions and grief. He challenges us […]

So You Want to Be a Princess?

This clever children’s book by Deborah Hage, MSW, is a fun way to help a royal highness abdicate the throne to the real queen, her MOM! When mom steps up […]