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FosterClub Transition Toolkit: a tool for developing a youth-driven transition plan

FosterClub

Foster Club's Transition Toolkit was designed just for this transitioning journey. It is a youth-involved, comprehensive way to develop a transition plan for foster youth aging out of care. Foster Club's Transition Toolkit includes planning worksheets, record keeping, detailed maps, and resources.

Children's Titles, Teen Titles, Parenting, Parenting Teens, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Professionals, Transitions Considerations

Book

Foster Care 411: a youth's guide to foster care

FosterClub

Foster Care 411 helps youth understand the foster care system and take an active part in their case plan. Foster Care 411 is designed to give young people in care the answers they need to better understand foster care and take charge of their lives. Written in accessible, engaging format, this comprehensive guide includes: questions and ansers in relevant foster care topic areas, a glossary of terms to help youth bette runderstand foster care terminology, Foster to Famous stories to inspire and empower young people, quotes from youth in care relating their experiences and providing advice and encouragement, FYI Forms to help young people communicate and advocate on their behalf. Though written for youth, Foster Care 411 is also a valuable source of informaiton for any supportive adult of youth in care.

Children's Titles, Teen Titles, Parenting, Parenting Teens, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Professionals, Transitions Considerations

Book

Steps in My Shoes

Ron Deming

Steps in My Shoes is a true account of my journey through the foster care system and beyond. Going through four foster homes, two adoptive homes, five behavioral facilities, and battling with reactive attachment disorder (RAD), and sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) certainly taught me a lot. The abysmal college graduation rate of less than 3% for foster youth did not prevent me from bagging a bachelor’s degree and becoming a licensed teacher. If I could go through all that and still found the courage to become a teacher and author, then I believe other foster youth can too. Reading this book will totally educate you on what an average child in the foster care system passes through on a daily basis. This intriguing book is a must have for teachers, social workers, foster/adoptive parents, people considering being foster/adoptive parents, and current/past foster and adopted youth.

General Adoption, Domestic Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Growing Up Adopted, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations

Book

Hold Me Tight

Dr. Sue Johnson

Heralded by the New York Times and Time magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. This idea, once controversial, is now supported by science, and has become widely popular among therapists around the world.

In Hold me Tight, Dr. Sue Johnson presents Emotionally Focused Therapy to the general public for the first time. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship-from Recognizing the Demon Dialogue to Revisiting a Rocky Moment-and uses them as touchpoints for seven healing conversations. Through case studies from her practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.

Parenting, Grief & Loss, General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Openness in Adoption, Relative Adoption, Search and Reunion, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations, LGBTQ

Book

The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals

Stephanie Brill & Rachel Pepper

This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the authors cover gender variance from birth through college. What do you do when your toddler daughter’s first sentence is that she’s a boy? What will happen when your preschool son insists on wearing a dress to school? Is this ever just a phase? How can you explain this to your neighbors and family? How can parents advocate for their children in elementary schools? What are the current laws on the rights of transgender children? What do doctors specializing in gender variant children recommend? What do the therapists say? What advice do other families who have trans kids have? What about hormone blockers and surgery? What issues should your college-bound trans child be thinking about when selecting a school? How can I best raise my gender variant or transgender child with love and compassion, even when I barely understand the issues ahead of us? And what is gender, anyway? These questions and more are answered in this book offering a deeper understanding of gender variant and transgender children and teens.

Professionals, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations, LGBTQ, Parenting LGBTQ, Youth Identity

Book

Bridges Out of Poverty: Strategies for Professionals and Communities

Ruby K. Payne PhD, Philip E. Devol, & Terie Dreussi Smith

Bridges Out of Poverty is a unique and powerful tool designed specifically for social, health, and legal services professionals. Based in part on Dr. Ruby K. Payne's myth shattering A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Bridges reaches out to the millions of service providers and businesses whose daily work connects them with the lives of people in poverty. In a highly readable format you'll find case studies, detailed analysis, helpful charts and exercises, and specific solutions you and your organization can implement right now to: Redesign programs to better serve people you work with, build skill sets for management to help guide employees, upgrade training for front-line staff like receptionists, case workers, and managers; Improve treatment outcomes in health care and behavioral health care; Increase the likelihood of moving from welfare to work. If your business, agency, or organization works with people from poverty, only a deeper understanding of their challenges-and strengths-will help you partner with them to create opportunities for success.

Professionals, Home Studies, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations

Book

Best of Questions & Answers, The

Heather T. Forbes, LCSW

This 6-disc audio CD set is a compilation of the very best Q&A Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, has done with parents through her online parenting classes over the past several years. This one-of-a-kind audio set contains seven hours of practical, effective, and loving solutions for foster, adopted, and traumatized children. Topics include: abandonment, adoption, arguing, attention seeking behaviors, belief systems, boundaries vs. consequences, chores, disrespect, eating issues, electronics, emotional age, entitlement, equine therapy, expectations, extended family issues, grieving, healing, hoarding, hygiene, lying, medical trauma, medication, older children, opposition, overwhelm, parent anger, parent self-care, predictability, prenatal trauma, regulatory issues, shutting down, sibling rivalry, social issues, stealing, storytelling, tantrums, texting, time-in, toddler issues, transitions, trauma, and more.

Parenting, Discipline, Grief & Loss, Parenting Teens, School Challenges, General Adoption, Children with Special Needs, Attachment, Trauma & Brain Development, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Effects of Trauma, Transitions Considerations

CD

Improving Outcomes for Children & Youth in Care

TCU Institute of Child Development

May 24- May 26, 2010 Texas Judicial Summit Conference With over 68,000 victims of child abuse and neglect in Texas last year, our court play a critical role in determining the future of thousands of at-risk children and families. This training is designed to improve the handling of cases of child abuse and neglect with insights from the fields of child development, neurodevelopment, and attachment.

General Adoption, Foster Care Adoption, Children with Special Needs, Attachment, Trauma & Brain Development, Professionals, Effects of Trauma, Grief & Loss in the Triad, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations

DVD

How to Teach Without Getting Punched

Charles Fay

Today's teachers and students are up against stresses never felt before. Many students arrive at school carrying burdens and pressures no child should have to face. With this comes anger and resentment, often putting those they come into contact with in danger. Tachers now have a set of skills designed to prevent blowups with angry, potentially violent students. In this live video, Dr. Charles Fay models verbal and nonverbal techniques for bringing the best out of the toughest kids.

Parenting, Discipline, Professionals, Adoption Issues, Effects of Trauma, Grief & Loss in the Triad, Need for Connections, Transitions Considerations

DVD

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