They Are In It Together
by Barbara Brown, FCARC
July, 2010
A
Grandmother's Gracious Love
by Mike Heath, FCARC
June, 2010
Digital
Stories from the Field.
Over the last decade, the inclusion of “family voice”
has become an integral part of child welfare practice. The National Resource
Center for Permanency and Family Connections staff have created this website
to house many of these stories. Each story is accompanied by a written introduction
and provides additional web-based resources for the viewer.
Woman
Advocates for Foster Care from Experience
An Eau Claire
Leader Telegram article
about Greta Anderson
Posted with permission from Eau Claire Leader Telegram, March 2010
An
Open Letter to Foster Parents (About Culture)
by a teenager from
Dane County
Posted March, 2010
A
Voice From Within:
Growing Up as a Birth Child in a Foster and Adoptive Home
by Mike Heath, FCARC,
December, 2009
Hard
Work! Plus A Little Luck.
by Barbara Brown,
FCARC,
December, 2009
Bridging
Troubled Waters
by Barbara
Brown, FCARC
July, 2009
Foster
Care Month 2009: Booklet of Appreciation Statements
May, 2009
A
Cop With a Different Beat
by Susan
Schwab, FCARC
June, 2009
Perfect
Blend: Single Mom Creates Family Harmony with Adopted, Foster Children
by Terri
Dougherty, Women Magazine. (Linked with permission from Women
Magazine)
May, 2009
Love,
poem by Shannon, 15
A
Home for Teen Boys,
by Barbara Brown, FCARC
September, 2008
A
Family Created in Many Ways: Parents and Four Children Who Became Family
Through Adoption, Fostering, and Birth
by Barbara
Brown, FCARC
September, 2008
If
A Star Came Down and Kissed Your Nose, poem
by a 9-year-old boy and his mom
Brandy's
Story: Transitioning to Independent Living
May, 2008
Voices
of Youth: Stories, Artwork and Poems of Current and Former Youth in Care
(booklet
created for foster care month, 2008)
Extraordinary
Women,
by Barbara
Brown, FCARC
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feedback about this article
A Love So Much Deeper than the Ocean: An Adoption Story,
by Mike
Heath, FCARC
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