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Adoptive & Foster Family Education - Conspicuously Online
Conspicuous Families: Race, Culture & Adoption" is just one of a growing number of quality online education resources for adopting, adoptive, and foster parents. Learn more about these learning opportunities and where to find online classes.

Back to School
Whether it's a child's first school experience or she's a seasoned veteran, here are resources for parents, teachers, and students. Includes teachers' guides, homework help, and more.

Bookmaking... For Life
Creating a lifebook for an adopted or foster child is a way to focus on the personal history of one individual. An online tutorial and a new book tell all about them, how to make them, and how they can be used to promote attachment and a positive grasp of identity.

Caring for Your African American or Biracial Child's Hair
Ethnic hair care expert Mahisha Dellinger offers practical help for parents, from care basics - like combing and shampooing - to product recommendations.

Creative Family Trees
Age-specific ways to help our children visualize and express the diversity of their families. Great for adoptive and foster families, and teachers.

False Abuse Allegations, Adoption, and Foster Care
Child abuse is a national tragedy and greatly under-reported; however, many people do not realize that one-third to one-half of all child abuse alerts turn out to be unfounded or mistaken. False abuse allegations can destroy families and ultimately hurt the children who make the accusations. Dr. Rita Laws provides valuable information for adoptive and foster parents about why these allegations may occur, what they can do, and where to find help.

Foster Parenting: Celebrate the Vision
Many become foster parents in the face of criticism and ridicule from family and friends. Emil Baldwin, Jr. encourages us all to support families that refuse to let the vision die.

From Fostering to Adopting
Making the move to permanence is a joyful family experience, but are you ready? Take the self-assessment and see.

It's a RAD RAD World
Families living with the challenges of Reactive Attachment Disorder were the focus of an evening of chat. Listen in and benefit from the experience of these committed parents.

Looking for Mr./Ms. Goodworker
Is there such a thing as the ideal social worker for your family's needs? Maybe not, but an experienced foster care and adoption professional thinks there's hope. Guest author: Emil Baldwin, Jr., LSW.

Positive Steps for Families in Crisis (and Those Heading That Way)
Facing impending crisis can leave families feeling helpless, often seeing only the negatives. There are forward-looking steps you can take to minimize or prevent crisis, or handle it when it does happen.

Preparing Children for Court
Whether you're fostering or adopting from foster care, court appearances are likely to occur in your child's life. Experienced social worker Emil Baldwin, Jr. offers help to prepare your child and yourself.

Stress in the Foster Home
Evidence suggests a higher rate of child abuse in foster families than in the population of children as a whole. Emil Baldwin, Jr., LSW, addresses the complex stresses that may contribute to this statistic.

Surviving Your Child's Emotional Disorder
Living with a child who is diagnosed with an emotional disorder, such as reactive attachment disorder, challenges perceptions of parenting, family, friends, support, and therapy. Guest author: Susan M. Ward.

The Love Value of Food
Is the amount you spend on food for your household indicative of how much you love your children? A new study slams adoptive, foster, and step parents and ignites tempers.

Therapeutic Foster Care & Therapeutic Group Homes
Therapeutic foster care and group homes offer specialized care interventions for children and youth with severe emotional and/or behavioral challenges. Learn what they are, how they work, and how they compare.

Treatment Foster Care - One Parent's Story
Treatment/Therapeutic Foster Parenting provides a crucial service to children dealing with extreme challenges. One parent tells us how this differs from traditional foster care, and details about training, services and therapy programs.

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