Making Choices
This book is about helping children make choices in the way they express themselves. Author: Mark W. Fraser, James K. nashISBN: 3449Count: 1
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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LGBTQIA2S+ Resources
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.
Native & Tribal Resources
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.
Mental Health Resources
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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Join workshops, webinars, and support groups to build skills, connect with others, and feel supported.
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Browse guides, tools, and articles on parenting, mental health, adoption, and more.
Case Management Services (GIFTS)
Short-term personalized support for adoptive, guardianship, and reunified families in Wisconsin.
Identity & Community Resources
Final Gifts
How to help, talk and what to do for someone we love is dying. Author: Maggie Callanan, Patricia KelleyISBN: 3458Count: 1
Fostering Changes: Treating Attachment-Disordered Foster Children
Description “Fostering Changes addresses the following questions: What is attachment? Who are attachment-disordered foster children? What can be done to help them? Fostering Changes is a practical book for those […]
More than Moody – Recognizing and treating adolescent depression
A leading child and adolescent psychiatrist discusses the growing problem of teenage depression in America, offering helpful guidelines for parents on how to recognize the difference between normal teenage angst […]
Creative Arts Therapies Approaches in Adoption and Foster Care: Contemporary Strategies for Working With Individuals and Families
Description “This volume presents perspectives of creative arts therapy approaches in adoption and foster care. Creative arts therapists will find this collection to be of particular relevance, but the intention […]
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder In Children & Adolescents
This guide explains OCD in children and adolescents. Author: Hugh Johnston & J Jay FruehlingISBN: 3476Count: 1
