Fostering Across Wisconsin

Tip Sheet What Do These Behaviors Mean? How Children Process & Respond to Trauma From the Champion Classrooms Everyday Healing: Naming Adversity and Loss Creating Felt Safety Connected [...]

As relative, foster, or adoptive parents, you know that trauma creates emotional wounds that make it hard for kids to cope. You know that difficult behaviors, like meltdowns, lying, stealing, or [...]

One of the primary goals for all parents is to keep children safe. As foster/adoptive/relative care parents, you empower and guide children in your care on ways to establish and maintain healthy [...]

We Need to Talk: What to Expect When You Need to Have Difficult Conversations With the Children in Your Care “We need to talk.” Do those four words strike fear in your heart? They are [...]

In welcoming a child into your home, you become an essential part of their life. You provide love, comfort, care, safety, and stability. And you are keenly aware that the child entrusted into [...]

The uncertainty of our current times creates the stress of the unknown for all families, and that can’t help but affect children in care. We understand that many families are facing major changes [...]

So much has changed–and will likely continue to change–around school issues in 2020. As we work together to address those new changes as they arise, there are some topics that remain top of mind [...]

Sibling Relationships We can all play a role in supporting child well-being and sibling relationships. Simply recognizing how crucial and beneficial those relationships are and doing our best to [...]

Aida hadn’t talked to her sister in weeks when she received the call. “Your niece and nephew were found alone in the apartment again. Would you be willing to take the kids temporarily?” A version [...]

Talking about race can be a tough conversation; but it’s an important topic, especially for foster and adoptive parents. We hope the articles in this edition of Fostering Across Wisconsin [...]