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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Foster Parents Speak: Crossing Bridges and Fostering Change

F7074 A 23-minute video for fosterr families, borth families, and the professionals who work with them. An award-winning training and recruitment video that explores foster parenting today through the experiences […]

Reflections on Loss and Grief

This book provides a powerful resource for people who are grieving. This book will provide a valuable support in times of grief and bereavement.

All the Colors We Are

The Story of How We Get Our Skin Color People have many different colors of skin. Even though we often say the words, “”she is black,”” or “”he is white,”” […]

Kissing Hand (The) (Softcover)

This book is for any occasion where a child will be temporarily separated from home and loved ones. Chester Racoon and his mother are the focus of this book.

Parenting With Love and Logic

Description “This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and […]

Toddler Adoption

Increasingly, adoptive children are entering their forever families past the age of infancy but not yet as older children. This book covers all aspects of adopting and parenting these young […]

Twenty Life Transforming Choices Adoptees Need to Make

From the highly acclaimed author of Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, this book is a collection of over seventy stories about life’s challenges as an adoptee–challenges […]

In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

How did being adopted transracially affect their lives through childhood and into adulthood? How did their family experiences influence their racial and social identities, their choice of friends and marital […]

Together forever

This coloring book simply and lovingly portrays how a child is wished for, is wanted, and becomes a permanent and important part of his or her family.

When Joel Comes Home

Baby Joel and his new adoptive parents are arriving on flight 67 and the young narrator has been promised that she can be the first to hold him when they […]