Back to school: Tips for supporting children and youth in foster care as they return to the classroom
Child welfare experts offer tips and strategies for creating a successful return to school for your foster or adoptive student.
AdoptUSKids
AdoptUSKids authors include experts in child welfare, communications, evaluation, and/or technology from across the United States. Together, they drive the AdoptUSKids project, as it supports foster and adoptive families, raises awareness about the nationwide need for more of these families, and provides resources to child welfare systems and professionals.
Reading as healing: How bibliotherapy can benefit families
Kendra Morris-Jacobson with the Oregon Post-Adoption Resource Center Library discusses the benefits of bibliotherapy, which promotes healing through reading. Plus, she offers her recommendations for the best books to read with your child or youth to help process difficult emotions.
Celebrate National Foster Care Month by better understanding the system’s scope and impact, according to the numbers
May is National Foster Care Month. Join us in celebrating the system that reaches more than 368,000 children and youth annually.
Outstanding Caseworker treats each family as if they are her “only concern”
Drema Neely has worked with families for 16 years, most of that time as a case manager. She
first joined the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services four months after adopting a baby
through kinship care because she wanted to help other parents like her.
You don’t have to be special…you just need to be willing
Kayla Moffitt will always remember the moment that she shared her desire to adopt a child from foster care with her husband, Jerad, in the fall of 2018.
Sibling bonds: Three families share their stories of adopting siblings
Hear from three families as they share their stories of growing their families through sibling group adoptions.