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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It’s My Life: Financial Aid

This book offers a set of tools for preparing youth from foster care to take advantage of education and training opportunities beyond the high school level.

It’s My Life: Employment

Expanding on the It’s My Life transition framework, this guide to employment and career development helps child welfare professionals prepare young people for success in the workplace. It’s My Life: […]

Is Adoption Right For Me : Teens Explore the Adoption Option

The first few stories examine teens fantasies and hesitations about adoption. In the final stories, teens write about their actual experiences and struggles living in a new home. Taken together, […]

I’M The Mommy Now : Life As A Teen Parent

Many foster teens become parents at an early age. Here they write about the conflicts and burdens of parenthood, about challenges faced and overcome, and how they have grown as […]

Helping Kids Heal

This volumne contains 75 tried and true activities to use with school age children after an acutely traumatic event, or in response to the chronic trauma and loss experienced by […]

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 […]

Different But Equal : Teens Write About Disabilities

The teens in this booklet write about their experience with disabilities. These stories will help both disabled and non-disabled teens to counter stereotypes and find common ground.

Damaged Angels

This book offers guidance to parents (who are raising a child whose biological mother drank alcohol during pregnancy), as well as caregivers, teachers, and pediatricians who work with children afflicted […]

Children With Disabilities

A resource for professionals and families. Offers extensive coverage of crucial developmental, clinical, educational, family, and intervention issues. 5th edition

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 […]