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Camp Connection
Camps evolve over the years to meet ever changing needs of adoption community By Kim Phagan-Hansel Adoption and heritage camps have a long history in this country. As more and more children were adopted from […]
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What Foster Parents Need to Know About Reimbursement Rates and Taxes
By Richard Heyl de Ortiz, LCSW We’ve all heard the urban legend horror story about the foster parents who take in children just for the paycheck, or the couple who “warehouse” children just so that […]
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Adoption at the Movies: A Year of Adoption Friendly Movie Nights to Get Your Family Talking
By Addison Cooper, LCSW Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-785927096, 288 pages, $16.95 paperback Movies are one of America’s greatest past times, but not all movies are appropriate for certain audiences. Specifically, movies can impact […]
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Weekends with Max and His Dad
By Linda Urban Illustrated by Katie Kath Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers, 2016, ISBN: 978-0-544-59817-1, 160 pages, $16.99 “Weekends with Max and His Dad” is about a son having to adjust to his […]
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Trauma is Really Strange
Singing Dragon, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-84819-293-5, 32 pages, $7.99 Steve Haines, in his 32-page comic, “Trauma is Really Strange,” provides easy-to-understand, useful information regarding how trauma affects the brain. The illustrations, done by Sophie Standing, are […]
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Successful Survivors: The 8 Character Traits of Survivors and How You Can Attain Them
By Rhonda Sciortino Hatherleigh, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-57826-629-6, 154 page, $15 Author Rhonda Sciortino is a survivor of a trauma-filled early childhood, raised by her abusive grandfather and drug addicted grandmother. While that start alone may […]
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Through Magazine Acquisitions, Fostering Media Connections Supports Foster and Adoptive Families
by Daniel Heimpel, publisher of Adoption Today & Fostering Families Today When Fostering Media Connections (FMC) was launched in 2010, the goal was to drive public and political will behind improving the lives of vulnerable […]
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The Orphan Keeper
By Camron Wright Three Dreamers LLC, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-62972-224-5, 432 pages, $24.99 Taj Rowland has lived many roles in his life ranging from beloved Indian son to kidnapped orphan to adopted American son. His true […]
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Mindfulness For Carers: How to Manage the Demands of Caregiving while Finding a Place for Yourself
By Cheryl Rezek Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-78450-147-1, 96 pages, $ paperback Carers are particularly vulnerable to feeling dysregulated, worried and overwhelmed by the numerous demands that come with caregiving, whether they are physical, […]
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PTSD: Impacts on Children in Foster Care
By Kim Phagan-Hansel Dr. Mary Wingo has studied the stress impacts on the human brain. She shares with our Fostering Families Today readers how children in foster care are impacted by that stress more severely […]