We provide resources, training, and support for families, youth, and professionals with past or present involvement in foster care, adoption, reunification, kinship, and guardianship. Whether you’re a relative caregiver, adoptive parent, foster parent, birth parent, or member of a reunified family, you don’t have to navigate it alone. The Wisconsin Family Connections Center is here to connect you to trusted resources, training, and support.
Caring for a child who is a relative or family friend? Find resources, support groups, and guidance tailored to kinship caregivers.
Access post-adoption support, training, and resources to help your family thrive at every stage.
Learn about foster care, find licensing contacts, and access training and support services.
If you are considering adoption or navigating your role as a birth parent, we offer information, support, and guidance.
Find resources to strengthen and stabilize your family for children returning from foster care or out-of-home placements.
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The special challenges of coming out while in care are explored through stories by gay and straight teens and staff. Activities with every story make this book ideal for staff […]
Many young people in foster care have (or had) a parent in prision. The teens in this booklet describe the emotional impact of that experience. They write about the pain […]
One’s life is changed forever when a parent dies. In this booklet, six foster teens describe the death or a father or mother (or of both parents) They write about […]
Teens in foster care face difficult challenges in high school because of their painful family backgrounds and unstable circumstances in care. In these stories, teens write about the personal and […]
This practice framework is full of resources and emphasizes the educational needs of K-12 students in foster care or out-of-home care. Additional Author: Casey Family ProgramsISBN: F 5073Count: 1
Special challenges face vulnerable populations during the transition to adulthood: foster care youth, special education students, Author: Osgood, Wayneand Foster, Michael and Flanagan, Constance; Ruth, GretchenAdditional Author: The University of […]
