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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Understanding Learning Disabilities – How Difficult Can This Be – Discussion Leader’s Guide

This guide provides suggestions about how to use the videotape with groups and gives suggestions group exercises and discussion questions. A list of resources is also included.

Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide

How can you distinguish between early warning signs of bipolar mood swings and normal ups and downs? What medications are available and what are their side effects? What should you […]

Helping Clients Forgive: An Empirical Guide For Resolving Anger and Restoring Hope

Forgiveness has been found to be a pivotal process in helping clients resolve anger over past betrayals, relieve depression and anxiety, heal relationships, and restore peace of mind. In fact, […]

The Survival Guide For Kids With ADD or ADHD

Do you have a hard time paying attention or stating still? Do you sometimes get yelled at for talking in class or moving around? Do you often zone out? Lose […]

Separation and Loss Issues For Foster and Birth Families – Facilitators Guide

This facilitators guide supplements the DVD Separation and Loss Issues for Foster and Birth Families.

Sam’s Sister

Five year old Rosa becomes a big sister to a baby boy for whom their mother plans an open adoption. This book presents an opportunity to understand adoption from another […]

Kids Need to Be Safe

Kids – all kids – need safe places to play. For some kids this means living with foster parents. Written especially for kids, this book can help children prepare for, […]

You’re Not My Real Mother

What makes a real mother – playing, laughing, teaching, helping. This book describes these and other activities in a book that reveals a loving, vital realtionship between an anopted girl […]

Brown Like Me

This groundbreaking book speaks in simple straight-forward language to any child who is growing up in an environment where she/he feels different. Filled with wonderful pictures, this book will speak […]

Horace

HORACE is unhappy because his family striped, but he is spotted. (They are animals, not unusual looking people.) So off he goes to find a family that looks more like […]