By Susanti Sarkar Aiana Dadanova always loved expressing herself through drawing and painting, but when she entered the foster care system at 17, she found herself living in a Manhattan group home where the art […]
By Sharon Dunlevy For children in foster care, money management is not just a practical life skill. It is a stability skill. Many youth who experience foster care move frequently, have limited control over personal […]
By Rachel Bithell Neuroscientists, child development experts and our own instincts tell us babies and kids crave connection with adults and need safe, reliable relationships with caregivers to thrive. As resource parents, we want to […]
By Rachel Fulginiti Each month a recurring question surfaces, both in the online communities I’m part of, as well as in my own emails, DMs and text threads. It goes something like this: I’m interested […]
By Sharon Dunlevy Foster parenting is sacred work. It’s also some of the most emotionally and physically taxing work a person can do. While we pour everything we have into caring for children who have […]
As the author shares in the opening paragraphs of the book, “Murder, Motherhood, and Miraculous Grace,” a simple yes in 1996 forever changed the lives of Debra and Al Moerke. The family were veteran foster […]
Raising Kids and Teens with FASD: Advice and Strategies to Help Your Family to Thrive! By Barb Clark Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-80501-390-7, 237 pages, $17.95 When Barb Clark and her husband Michael adopted […]
Written in simple words and short sentences, “Tuesday’s Bear: A Tale of the Lost and Found” delivers a poignant message of hope and redemption for its readers. Writer Alexandra Davis, who has also written an […]
This New York Times Bestseller is a historical fiction novel based on the Tennessee Children’s Home Society operated by Georgia Tann from the 1920s to the 1950s in Memphis. “Before We Were Yours” tells the […]
