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.
Speak with a specialist who can help you find the right resources, services, and support for your situation.
Join workshops, webinars, and support groups to build skills, connect with others, and feel supported.
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Short-term personalized support for adoptive, guardianship, and reunified families in Wisconsin.
In these personal stories, teens write about facing (and resolving) a variety of conflicts with foster parents. They reveal how their family histories influence their attitudes toward the foster home, […]
In these stories, teens write about what they like about their group homes and what makes them work. These writers don’t sugarcoat the difficulties of group home life, but they […]
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 […]
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 mix […]
Knowing how to make and maintain healthy relationships – and avoid bad ones – is an important skill for everyone, but especially for foster teens, many of whom have had […]
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 […]
