A list of recommended resources, carefully curated for you by our experienced team.
Whether you’re a foster or adoptive parent, kinship caregiver, bio parent, social worker, former foster youth, or just someone who cares, there are resources here for you!
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RE: Conference
RE: Conference offers real encouragement for kinship, foster and adoptive parents.
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Trust-Based Relational Intervention® Practitioner List
TBRI® is a powerful, proven method of intervention for caregivers of children who have faced abuse, neglect, and/or other trauma. This link is for a map of all TBRI® practitioners.
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The Forgotten Initiative
Whether you are a part of the foster care community, passionate about serving or simply interested in learning more—here are some resources to help you get started.
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Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care
Will I live with my parents again? Will I stay with my foster parents forever? For children in foster care, the answer to many questions is often “maybe.” Maybe Days addresses the questions, feelings, and concerns these children most often face.
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Securely Attached: How Understanding Childhood Trauma Will Transform Your Parenting
Discover how you can create a family and home that is safe and supportive so your children can grow to trust and become securely attached.
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Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families
This book addresses the reality of those unmet expectations and offers validation and solutions for the challenges of parenting deeply traumatized and emotionally disturbed children.
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Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive.
This book guides parents through creating the necessary foundations for loving and secure relationships with their children.
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The Connected Parent: Real-Life Strategies for Building Trust and Attachment
Renowned child-development expert Dr. Karyn Purvis gives you practical advice and powerful tools you can use to encourage secure attachment in your family.
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The Jason Johnson Blog
A four-module online series uniquely designed to encourage and inspire dads who are currently fostering, considering fostering or have had their family impacted forever by adoption because of fostering.
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Care Portal
CarePortal is the largest network of caring people to meet the needs of kids and families in crisis.
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7 Insights and 7 Gifts Attachment Training
The short training videos (1-6 minutes each) equip parents with knowledge of the most important aspects of attachment and tools for how to create harmony in their relationship with children who have experienced trauma.
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Finally Home
Whether through an encouraging children’s story book, a therapeutic toolkit, or an empowering training, Finally Home’s resources reinforce time-tested skills and characteristics found in healthy families.
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