Join adoption advocate Tamara Dudnik as she shares about difficulties in raising adopted children, and how to overcome those difficulties. Session was filmed at the 2009 Eastern European Summit ...

Children from hard places have been impacted, often significantly, by their histories. These impacts vary, but often include changes in their brain development and brain chemistry. In addition, ...

For adoptive and foster parents, developing strong connections with children when they are young is often challenging. As children grow older, or when older children come into our families, these ...

Children whose early development has been damaged by abuse or neglect are notoriously difficult to reach. Through many years' therapeutic work with adopted children and their families, Denise B. ...

  In March 2011, Tapestry hosted an event entitled Connecting While Correcting. This event focused on helping adoptive and foster parents understand the need for connecting ...

This blog post from Susan Hillis shares the importance of connecting both with pillars around you (mom, dads, and leaders called to love orphans), but also connecting vertically to THE true ...

Are you looking for good children's books about adoption to read to your adopted child?  What about adoption stories to read to your biologic children?  This is a great list of books about ...

Rob Mitchell is one of the last “lifers” raised in an American orphanage. Left by a dysfunctional family in an Illinois children's home, he grew up with kids who were not friends but rather ...

When experienced parents decide to adopt an older child or a sibling group, they jump through all kinds of bureaucratic hoops background checks, interviews, group meetings, reading assignments, ...

Child Protection Services have been involved with Billy and his mother for some time now. He has been happily settled in a kinship placement with his grandmother and enjoys his pet cat, interacting ...

This resource is to aid social work and child care practitioners and policy makers around the world in planning and providing better care for children—including family strengthening and out of home ...

Road-tested with over 400 families, Before You Were Mine equips adoptive parents to celebrate and commemorate their adopted children’s birth stories. Parents will benefit from practical worksheets ...

According to many studies, the average church-attending young person is more likely to not stay, than to remain. Before They Say Goodbye is a proactive project to help parents, leaders, and pastors ...

Communicating and Understanding   The other day I was searching for a website that gives voice to birthmothers desiring to reach out to the child she could not parent with words of ...

The school experience is an important aspect in the life of a child. And yet, school often presents unique and sometimes unexpected challenges for both children and parents in adoptive and foster ...

Parents often become entangled in control battles with their children, leaving everyone frustrated and disconnected.  Watch as Amy Monroe encourages parents to avoid control battles by becoming ...

Proper attachment is the most fundamental issue in a successful adoption, but what exactly does the term mean? Attaching in Adoption answers that question thoroughly, and it provides ...