Every family’s story is different, and every child deserves to feel understood, respected, and supported for who they are. We offer resources, training, and support to help families and caregivers navigate identity, culture, and mental health with confidence, whether you’re supporting an LGBTQIA2S+ young person, caring for a child with Native heritage, or working through mental health challenges together as a family.
We offer guidance for caregivers supporting a young person’s identity, resources for LGBTQIA2S+ teens and young adults, and parents who are themselves part of the community and are navigating foster care or adoption.
We offer trainings, tip sheets, and guidance for foster, adoptive, kinship, and relative caregivers of Native children, covering cultural traditions, the significance of hair, and how to advocate for a Native child in your care.
We offer resources to help foster, adoptive, and kinship children work through trauma, grief, and other mental health needs, along with guidance and tools to support your own mental health as a caregiver.
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A 3-D View examines the “”big picture”” of troubled foster, kinship and adopted children. Eschewing a single, narrow perspective of these struggling children, the authors support a three-dimensional viewpoint. The […]
Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control covers in detail the effects of trauma on the body and mind and how trauma alters children’s behavioral responses. The first four chapters help parents […]
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing. What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, […]
In the children’s book classic Heather Has Two Mommies, Leslea Newman offered kids a chance to read about nontraditional families. Now Garner, who created the site FamiliesLikeMine.com, attempts to do […]
An inside look at the power of empathy: Born for Love is an unprecedented exploration of how and why the brain learns to bond with others—and a stirring call to […]
Adoption has changed dramatically in less than a decade. With higher and higher percentages of children joining their families not as newborns, but from domestic or international foster care or […]
