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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Sensory Sensitive Child

Unidentifies sensory processing problems often cause heartache in family struggling to understand their children’s misbehavior. Children with sensory problems range from battles over dressing to difficulty fuctioning in a busy […]

An Unlit Path

What happens when love is not enough? The answer lies in this true story of one family’s journey through the world of foster care and adoption within the United States. […]

Attaching in Adoption

Practical tools for today’s parents. This positive, but realistic book is an important resource for all adoptive families, at any stage of pre and post adoption. The focus on the […]

Allison

Through evocative watercolors and understated prose, Caldecott Medalist Allen Say creates a moving statement on families, adoption, and the search for belonging.

Life Givers

Framing the Birthparent Experience in open adoption. The author examines all the ways birthparents are marginalized in the adoption process. He examines the birthparent’s emotions and grief. He challenges us […]

So You Want To Be A Prince

This cute child’s story helps sort out feelings in a fun way. To be a prince and one day a king, Mom must be treated like a queen! Reading together […]

Our Chosen Child

In OUR CHOSEN CHILD, adoptive parents can record family history and all of the milestones of childhood through high school graduation omitting details about the pregnancy, labor and delivery. Some […]