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: […]
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.
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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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: […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
A resource for professionals and families. Offers extensive coverage of crucial developmental, clinical, educational, family, and intervention issues. 5th edition
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 […]
Meeting the Emotional needs of Children and Youth in Foster Care. Resource to help therapists address the emotional needs of children and adolescents in foster care.