Download or read book Foster the Family written by Jamie C. Finn and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are great rewards that come along with being a foster parent, yet there are also great challenges that can leave you feeling depleted, alone, and discouraged. The many burdens of a foster parent's day--hurting children, struggling biological parents, and a broken system--are only compounded by the many burdens of a foster parent's heart--confusion, anxiety, heartache, anger, and fear. With the compassion and insight of a fellow foster parent, Jamie C. Finn helps you see your struggles through the lens of the gospel, bringing biblical truths to bear on your unique everyday realities. In these short, easy-to-read chapters, you'll find honest, personal stories and practical lessons that provide encouragement and direction from God's Word as you walk the journey of foster parenting.

Download or read book I Miss My Foster Parents written by Stefon Herbert and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 1991 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little boy who is adopted tells why he misses his foster parents.

Download or read book My Foster Care Journey written by Beth O'Malley and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Lifebook Journal written by Therese Accinelli and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "38 simple activities to teach kids to deal with difficult feelings ; build trust & personal identity ; cope with the challenges of foster care." -- Cover, p..1.

Download or read book Brainwashed by Foster Parents written by Jeffery Tracey Sr. and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brainwashed by Foster Parents is a true story about a twelveaEUR"yearaEUR"old boy who is forced to live with foster parents after his family was torn apart because of alcoholism, abuse, abandonment, and poverty. The book tells how a very fanatic religious family manipulated, coerced, and brainwashed a twelveaEUR"yearaEUR"old boy for four years. The foster parents forced the young boy to live according to their fanatic religious beliefs. It tells about the emotional events that lead to the boy's rebellion, giving him the courage to finally leave his brainwashing foster family.

Download or read book Foster Care Problems and Issues written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Foster Care and Me written by Judith A.M. Denton and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please let me introduce you to Judith AM Denton. Placed in Foster Care at the age of 9, growing up through the system, Judith experienced exclusions from School and College, a run in with the Law, and then as a Care Leaver, she experienced a period of poor Mental Health. But thankfully her story doesn't end there.... In this real-life narrative, Judith openly details the challenges faced and overcome, at every stage of her journey through and out of the Foster Care System. You'll also find 'Messages' she has penned to inspire hope to Children In Care and Care Leavers, along with 'Messages' to Foster Carers, Social Workers, School Staff and our Government, a call to action, to make the urgent changes she believes is needed to help improve the outcomes and life chances of our Looked After Community. Now the Founder and CEO of The Transformed You, providing Intervention and Support Mentoring Programmes to improve their outcomes and life chances of Children and Young People in Care and Care Leavers, aged 11 – 25 who have behaviour, emotional and social difficulties, Judith is also a sought-after Keynote Speaker at Social Care Conferences and a member of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham's Fostering Panel, positioned to help make sure our Children and Young People in Care get the best of Care, and as you read you will be inspired to see and believe that Change Is Possible!

Download or read book Faces of Foster Care written by Lisa Aguirre and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faces of Foster Care has heartfelt and frank messages from people around the country who have been involved in some way with foster care. Told like mini memoirs, their inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking stories bring us into their lives and show us unique perspectives of foster care in the United States.

Download or read book Healing for Adults Who Grew Up in Adoption or Foster Care written by Renee Wolfs and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2015-03-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Positive and practical, this guide is designed to offer a route to recovery from grief and loss after adoption or long-term foster care. Children growing up in adoptive families or foster care often have complicated feelings about the loss of their birth parents - feelings which become all the more complex as they gain independence and become young adults, and which can endure throughout their lives. Common life events such as entering new relationships, building a family or losing a loved one can give rise to difficult questions about their own childhood and identity. In this book, Renée Wolfs provides an accessible explanation of the feelings of loss and grief commonly experienced by adults who grew up in adoptive families or foster care, and how debilitating they can be. She provides grounded advice and strategies to aid recovery and provides the reader with a useful tool: The Circle of Connecting. The Circle provides strategies for healing from loss, spanning all seven elements of your life: your body, mind, heart, environment, past, present and future. This book is essential reading for older teens and adults who need help in addressing feelings of grief and loss, as well as those who support them including adoptive and foster parents, social workers, counsellors and therapists.

Download or read book Stormy Weather Clear Blue Skies written by Sky Alexandria and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about my life and my family how people helped me, through the good and the bad. how god was there to help and the diffrent churches i went to through the years. the names in this book and the places in this book will be changed to protect the innocent. it will tell about how i felt at the time and about how diffrent shows helped me not saying the name of the show. but using diffrent statements, and how there are good people in my life, and about the bad people in my life. when i got married what my marrage was like the good the bad the happy the sad. when i had my childern the ones i miscarried, how my childern have been treated over the years. how i felt after my miscarriages, what i thought they were and the names i gave them and why i say that is to help me know it was real and how to cope with it and how many miscarriages i had. how my birth dad treated my birth mom, how my birth mom died and how old she was and what she died of. how i was taken care of when i lived with my birth dad, what age i was when i went into my foster home and how they treated me and took me in to their home, how came to know jesus and invited him into my heart,how people treat me because i beleive in god. how people treat my sibbling's, when i got divorced. and why this book is about the truth and what i can remember, who i am related to and the proof i have of that. that i was a triplet.

Download or read book National Children s Day written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Task Force on Human Resources and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Culture and Identity written by Anita Jones Thomas and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Identity by Anita Jones Thomas and Sara E. Schwarzbaum engages students with autobiographical stories that show the intersections of culture as part of identity formation. The easy-to-read stories centered on such themes as race, ethnicity, gender, class, religion, sexual orientation, and disability tell the real-life struggles with identity development, life events, family relationships, and family history. The Third Edition includes an expanded framework model that encompasses racial socialization, oppression, and resilience. New discussions of timely topics include race and gender intersectionality, microaggressions, enculturation, cultural homelessness, risk of journey, spirituality and wellness, and APA guidelines for working with transgendered individuals.

Download or read book Standing Still Is Not an Option written by Christa Boske and published by IAP. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book captures the experiences of children in U.S. public schools and how they utilize artmaking to disrupt injustices they face. These first-time authors, who represent school children, parents, teachers, and community leaders, focus on artmaking for social change. Their first-tellings provide thought-provoking insights regarding the impact of artmaking on their capacity to promote social justice-oriented work in K-12 school communities. As the U.S. continues to experience significant demographic shifts, including increases of homeless children, children identified with learning differences, thousands of refugees and immigrants, children living in poverty, children in foster care, and increasing numbers of Children of Color, those who work in schools will need to know how to address disparities facing these underserved communities. These U.S. demographic shifts and issues facing underserved populations provide opportunities for children, teachers, families, and school leaders to deepen their understanding regarding their experiences within their communities and K-12 schools as well as ways to interrupt oppressive practices and policies they face every day through art as social action. Authors call upon decision-makers who serve children from disenfranchised populations to utilize artmaking to create equal access for children to explore social justice, equity, reflective practices, and promote authentic social action and change through artmaking. Authors reflect on this artmaking process as a catalyst for increasing consciousness, creating imaginative possibilities, and facilitating meaningful change in schools. Authors urge readers to create equal access art spaces to build bridges among schools, families, and communities. Together, they contend that artmaking promotes courageous conversations and encourages the exploration of what it means to live this significant work. Praise for Standing Still Is Not an Option Standing Still Is Not an Option is a non-traditional leadership text, not just in words, but in deeds. It took courage for student, first-authors to write/perform this text, and it takes courage for us as educators to read it because our youth want us to speak up more and act differently. To quote one student-first –author:“It was all new to me. I never did anything like this before. If I could go back in time, I would tell the principals that they need to care about all of the kids, not just the favorites. If they could actually take the time and talk to me, maybe you would actually care because you would get to know me. I think they would learn I have a lot on my plate and they need to know about these things. It would have really helped me if they would have listened to me, talked to me, and actually showed me they care. If a principal would have shown me they cared, I wouldn’t be where I am today.” Isn’t it past time that teachers and administrators learned to become their art and let their art remake them? Ira Bogotch Professor, Florida Atlantic University This book dares to explore the multi-faceted nature of voice and its importance in narrating the experiences that have contoured the lives of persons who are so often conditioned, socialized and placed in a voiceless space by educational institutions. The use of artmaking to articulate hopes and fears, in a non-judgmental space that calls for a socially just education, shifts the focus from traditional notions of narrative to the creative power of expression through art. This work breaks new ground in pushing educational power brokers to come to grips with the multiple ways asymmetric power relations are propagated through traditional structures and how the power of creativity can respond to and disrupt these structures. Michael Dantley Dean Professor, Miami of Ohio University Christa Boske’s edited volume provides an extraordinary service to educational leaders, policy makers, and those who care about the education stakeholders. Through the chapters in this book, Boske and her authors demonstrate the power of artistic storytelling and representation to the development and empowerment of young minds. For those who care about the education of children and youth this is an essential read. Michelle Young Professor, University of Virginia former Executive Director of the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)

Download or read book When You Re Called Mommy written by Sophie Foster Ph.D. and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impossible act of wholly loving a child with the expectation of letting them go, begins the gripping chronicle of a foster parents journey through the system, intermingling a once routine existence with a new kaleidoscope of biological relatives, social workers, and court-appointed officials. Suspenseful and engaging, this distinctive point of view coupled with insightful first-hand accounts from other foster parents, social workers, and former foster youth expertly intertwines real-life experiences from multiple perspectives. This unique tour de force will leave you cheering, emotionally winded, and mindfully contemplative. For anyone who is considering being, has been, or knows someone who has been a part of the foster care system, this narrative tale will leave you more informed and intentional about the roles each of us play in influencing the life of a child.

Download or read book Keeping Your Adoptive Family Strong written by Greg Keck and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcoming a new child into the home through adoption is a life-altering experience-for the child, the parents, and everyone else in the family. Expectations and realities often differ dramatically, and adjusting to the change can be difficult and emotionally painful. Since the majority of children available for adoption today are in the system as the result of abuse and neglect, parents must acknowledge the fact they these young innocents will carry their trauma with them into their new homes. A willingness to address the not-so-easy, didn't-see-that-coming aspects of adoption is the first step toward building a strong family. A valuable resource for parents and professionals, this book provides useful strategies for facing the challenges posed by adopted children. The inclusion of real stories from real people adds heart and encouragement, offering hope for the future of the entire family.

Download or read book As God Is My Witness written by Carol Ann Conlin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trust is stolen, betrayed. A time of innocence is gone. “How could one say such terrible things to a child, not yet a teen, not yet a woman?” How could one commit to such horrific deeds? One carried a little lamb, a sleep to an evil lair. The little lamb awoke outside the entrance. Her body trembled from within, struggling to awaken from the monster in the night. The monster in the night laid her in his berth. The lamb begged to let her go, her coffin beaconing from afar. The lamb tried to call out, her mouth opened wide. Her voice is frozen in time, not a sound, not a breath, only tears of horror and of shame remain. The lamb, betrayed in body and in trust, screamed silently into the night. No one answered her, no one heard, and no one cared.

Download or read book Empower Without Hate written by Davion Farmer and published by Davion Farmer. This book was released on 2021-11-13 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story about a man named Ryan. A 24 year old man accomplishing his lifelong dreams. Ryan started at a young age living a normal lifestyle going school, playing basketball and spending time with his family. One day everything took a left turn. Ryan's parents died in a terrible car accident. Ryan was heartbroken. He quickly went into the foster system and found a wonderful family but the only negative was he had to move away from home. Ryan had to leave all his friends and family. After everything happened Ryan still had the mindset to accomplish his lifelong dreams but things kept happening, His relationships were falling apart, he lost his girlfriend and his friends. Months later he also lost his foster dad to gun violence. Ryan wanted to give up on his dreams but he didn't. He kept pushing and he didn't let life put him down. Once Ryan graduated college he started making his dreams into a reality. Now he is the richest 24 year old in the world. Making money in his sleep. Ryan didn't let life put him down. Everytime life pushed him down he got back up and kept fighting. Empower Without Hate is a story trying to tell you that no matter what happens you can do anything you want to do no matter what happens in your life. At the end of the day just keep fighting.