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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They Cage The Animals At Night

This book tells the story of Jennings Michael Burch who at the age of eight painfully concluded love only meant loss. His lonely odyssey began one rainy day in Brooklyn […]

Orphans of the Living

Stories of America’s Children in Foster Care. In this tale of five children caught in a system incrisis, Toth chronicles the complexities of a culture that both liberates and hobbles […]

Nikolai, The Only Bear

Book Description “As the only bear at the Russian orphanage, Nikolai wonders if anyone who visits will ever choose him, but when a fur-faced man suddenly appears with his wife, […]

Why Am I Different?

This book shows the many ways and many things that make each person unique. It explains that everyone is different and that these differences are part of what makes people […]

Twice Born

Memoirs of an adopted daughter. The classic memoir of Betty Jean Lifton’s search for her secret past that helped open the way for so many others. Betty Jean Lifton, acclaimed […]