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.
Foster parenting
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.
Why the holidays can be hard and how to make them better
Many youth in foster care experience the holidays as stressful. Foster care alum Jamerika Haynes-Lewis shares her perspective and offers six tips for making youth feel included.
Foster and adoptive mom of 15 years: “Teens are great!”
Melissa is the adoptive mother of three children and continues to foster many more. Here’s her advice.
Maintaining contact between birth and adoptive families
Maintaining contact with birth families is important to a child’s sense of belonging and well-being. And there are a lot of approaches that can work, depending on your family’s circumstances.