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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Living A Lie : Surviving Sexual Abuse

Many teens in care were sexually abused. This collection includes first-person accounts by both male and female survivors. All grapple with fear, shame, and guilt, and thse difficult feelings are […]

Let Me Hear Your Voice

She was a beautiful doelike child, with an intense graceful fragility. In her first year, she picked up words, smiled and laughed, and learned to walk. But then Anne Marie […]

It’s My Life: Postsecondary Education and Training

Based on the It’s My Life transition framework, this guide helps child welfare professionals and educators prepare young people from foster care academically, financially, and emotionally for postsecondary education and […]

It’s My Life: Housing

Expanding on the It’s My Life transition framework, this guide helps child welfare professionals prepare young people to find, get, and keep housing. It’s My Life: Housing was published in […]

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.