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Building Understanding and Connection Across Wisconsin
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.
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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.
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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.
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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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131 Creative Strategies for Reaching Children with Anger Problems
This practical guide is full of insight, techniques and activities for managing and helping chronically angry children and ODD children. It provides teachers, counselors, parents and other professionals with numerous […]
Emotional Brain (The): The Mysterious Underpinnings of Emotional Life
What happens in our brains to make us feel fear, love, hate, anger, joy? Do we control our emotions, or do they control us? Do animals have emotions? How can […]
Lesbian and Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents
Lesbian and Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents: Recruiting, Assessing and Supporting an Untapped resource for Children and Youth. Six to ten million children of lesbian, gay, and bisexual parents currently […]
Face in the Mirror (The) – Teenagers and Adoption
Being a teenager in today’s complex world is a difficult enough task, but adopted teens have an additional struggle: to discover their identity and a sense of belonging and place […]
Things Get Hectic
Teens write about the violence that surrounds them. Violence is commonplace in many teens’ lives, whether from bullying, gangs, dating, or family relationships. Hear the experiences of victims, perpetrators and […]
