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Fostering Families Today Feature

7 Tips for Self-Care: A Mind-Body-Spirit Approach to De-Stress

March 13, 2020 Christie Renick 0

By Lisa D. Maynard Stress is a natural consequence for all parents, and often all the more so for foster and adoptive parents. Research findings suggest that some of the more specific stressors in fostering […]

Fostering Families Today Feature

Better Together: Maya and Hannah’s Story

March 1, 2020 Christie Renick 0

In June 2019, the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption visited Middleborough, Massachusetts, to meet with Maya and Hannah Fontaine, sisters who were adopted through the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids program. The girls bravely shared the incredible […]

Articles

A Birth Child’s Story: The Impact of Fostering, Adopting and Kinship Care on Birth Children

January 2, 2018 dev0 0

by Eshele Williams, Psy.D., LMFT, A Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Writer, Researcher, Dr. Eshele Williams has the lived experience of being a birth child of a foster, adoptive and kinship parents. This story, her […]

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Beyond Faith: How One Community Raised 70 Kids from the Texas Foster Care System

September 5, 2017 dev0 0

Diann Sparks hadn’t planned on adopting, until one of her sisters asked her to attend an adoption class in a town 120 miles away from her home in Possum Trot, part of east Texas’ Shelby […]

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How the New ICWA Regulations, Guidelines Support Native American Children

May 11, 2017 dev0 0

The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) came about because the federal government and states had a long history of treating Native American parents as unfit just by their being Indian. (America’s indigenous people refer to […]

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Adoption, Self-Harm, Secrecy & Shame

May 9, 2017 dev0 0

By Melanie Chung-Sherman, LCSW-S, CTS, LCPAA At the tender age of 5 years old, Rebecca* took a belt and attempted to hang herself in her foster parent’s closet. She talked about wanting to kill herself […]

Articles

Cleo Edison Oliver in Persuasion Power

April 6, 2017 dev0 0

By Sundee T. Frazier Arthur A. Levine Books, 2017, ISBN: 978-0-545-82239-8, 242 pages, $16 In the book, titled for the character, “Cleo Edison Oliver in Persuasion Power,” Cleo is a charming girl on a mission […]

Articles

It’s Not About You: Understanding Adoptee Search, Reunion and Open Adoption

April 4, 2017 dev0 0

An Anthology for Birth and Adoptive Parents and their Therapists Edited by Brooke Randolph, MA, NCC, LMHC Entourage Publishing, 2017, ISBN-13: 978-1942312093, 318 pages, $16.65 “It’s Not About You: Understanding Adoptee Search, Reunion and Open […]

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Accessing & Layering Post-Adoption Services

March 15, 2017 dev0 0

By Salena Burden You are not alone. There are hundreds of families around you, thousands of families across the United States and worldwide that are searching for the same thing you are. They are looking […]

Fostering Families TODAY: Jan/Feb 2021

Book & Movie Reviews

  • Book Review: “The Black Foster Youth Handbook”
    March 1, 2021 0
  • Book Review: “Redefining Normal”
    March 1, 2021 0
  • 8 Podcast Episodes About Trauma
    January 1, 2021 0
  • Book Review: “No Matter What”
    November 1, 2020 0

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