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Adopting and Fostering as a Single Parent
Becoming and being a single parent by choice through adoption or foster care is not easy, but it is doable, tips by this single adoptive mom.
Friends Who Foster: How to Help
Tips for the friends, family, and community of foster parents, for new placements and when kids leave. Help support your friends and family who foster.
Foster Parent Grief and Debriefing
Foster parent debriefing is used to process the heartbreak and grief of foster care when a foster child placement moves and leaves your foster home.
Adoption, Dr Ibram X. Kendi and Amy Coney Barrett
Amy Coney Barrett is a parent through adoption. In a tweet that followed, international adoptive parents were called colonizers. Racist or accurate?
Using Technology to Connect with Birth Family and Culture
Use Facebook, Shutterfly, and Google to contact birth family, and connect with country, and culture post-adoption, in open, semi-open, and closed adoptions.
Adoption and Foster Care Quotes
A huge list of child welfare, adoption and foster care quotes from adoptees, former foster youth, adoptive, birth and foster parents and social workers.
Lifebooks for Foster Care and Adoption
Learn to create a lifebook (memory book) for foster and adopted children, while child is foster care or after finalization. Hands on tips and resources.
Social Stories when Kids Move Homes in Foster Care
Before moving day, create a social story for your young foster children, to help them understand the move (to adoption, new foster home or reunification). Lots of tips and examples!
A How-to Guide for Foster Care Adoption
Adoption of babies, children and teens from foster care is complex but doable. Check out this helpful guide for people considering foster care adoption.
9 Things You Need To Do AFTER You Adopt
After the court date and adoption finalization, do these nine things to make sure your adoption is legal, your child is a citizen and avoid common pitfalls.
Concurrent Adoption from Foster Care
Want to adopt a baby from foster care? WHY do workers choose the families they do? How you can be chosen? Unlock the puzzle of concurrent foster care adoption.
The First Night in Foster Care: What Foster Parents Need to Know
Prepare for the first night with your new first care placement. Tips from an experienced foster parent on how to help everyone feel comfortable and safe.
Alisa Matheson of Attempting Agape 