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Author : Joe Schrantz
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0741423723
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Boo's Foster Homes and Beyond written by Joe Schrantz and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Betsy Krebs
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813540153
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Beyond The Foster Care System written by Betsy Krebs and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year tens of thousands of teenagers are released from the foster care system in the United States without high school degrees, homes, or strong family relationships. Two to four years after discharge, half of these young people still do not have either a high school diploma or equivalency degree, and fewer than ten percent enter college. Nearly a third end up on public assistance within fifteen months, and eventually more than a third will be arrested or convicted of a crime. In this richly detailed and often surprising exploration of the foster care system, Betsy Krebs and Paul Pitcoff argue that the existing foster care system sets teens up to fail by inadequately preparing them for adult life. They contend that the primary goal of foster care for teenagers should be preparation for a fully productive adult life, and that current policies and practice are misguided. The authors draw on their fifteen years of experience working with teens and the foster care system to introduce new ways to empower teens to be responsible for themselves and to identify and develop their potential. They also explore what sorts of resources-legal, financial, and human-will need to come from inside and outside the system to ensure that more teens reach successful independence. Ultimately, Krebs and Pitcoff argue that change must include the participation of caring communities of volunteers who want to see disadvantaged youth succeed, as well as the use of creative approaches such as the Socratic Method to help teens to take control of their lives. Bringing together a series of inspiring, real-life accounts, Beyond the Foster Care System introduces readers to a number of dynamic young people who have participated in the Youth Advocacy Center's programs. Their stories demonstrate that alternatives to the standard way of providing foster care are not only imaginable, but possible. With the practical improvements Krebs and Pitcoff outline, teens can learn the skills of effective self-advocacy, become better prepared for the transition to independence, and avoid becoming the statistics that foster care has so often produced in the past.
Author : Joe Schrantz
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0741422301
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Boo's Convent written by Joe Schrantz and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Schrantz
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0741425033
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Nannie written by Joe Schrantz and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tori Hope Petersen
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1087750989
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (877 download)
Download or read book Fostered written by Tori Hope Petersen and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you’re wondering if God can truly move in the life of someone with all the odds stacked against her, look no further than Tori Hope Petersen. Tori grew up in the foster care system, a bi-racial child in a confusing and volatile world. Growing up with a mentally ill mother and living in twelve different foster homes, nothing was in her favor. And yet, even with a minuscule chance of graduating college and a great risk of being homeless, jobless, and on drugs, Tori overcame every negative stereotype and assumption that attacked her identity. However, Tori will tell you she did not overcome. Christ did. In the face of the storm, Jesus made a way for Tori to find profound hope, deep faith, renewed purpose, and a loving family, too. After so many years of being on one side of foster care as a child, Tori is now on the other side as a foster mom, adoptive mom, and biological mom. On top of that, she became a Track and Field All-American in college and now works with nonprofits, ministries, and beyond advocating for foster care reform, adoption advocacy, and help for vulnerable populations. If you want to hear the true tale of an unlikely overcomer, this book is for you. If you want to learn more about the foster care system from a former foster youth’s perspective, this book is for you. If you want to better dwell in the reality of your own spiritual adoption by our Heavenly Father and better understand the orphan and the widow that He loves dearly, this book is for you. Ultimately, if you want to remember who God is, and what He can do through the most unlikely of people, Fostered is for you.
Author : Deborah Gold
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446185
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Counting Down written by Deborah Gold and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family. They fell in love with Michael (a toddler when he came to them), yet they had to reckon with the knowledge that he could leave their lives at any time. In Counting Down, Gold tells the story of forging a family within a confounding system. We meet social workers, a birth mother with the courage to give her children the childhood she never had herself, and a father parenting from prison. We also encounter members of a remarkable fellowship of Appalachian foster parents—gay, straight, right, left, evangelical, and atheist—united by love, loss, and quality hand-me-downs. Gold’s memoir is one of the few books to deliver a foster parent’s perspective (and, through Michael’s own poetry and essays, that of a former foster child). In it, she shakes up common assumptions and offers a powerfully frank and hopeful look at an experience often portrayed as bleak.
Author : Janelle Molony
Publisher : Janelle Molony
ISBN 13 : 1734463821
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Un-Adoptable? written by Janelle Molony and published by Janelle Molony. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adoption agency made a mistake. A mother welcomed in a child who brought fear and destruction into the home. She wrestles with God, doctors, and social workers over what to do next. Quick-thinking, leaps of faith, and some dark humor challenges readers to ask themselves: Do I have what it takes to raise a child with a harrowing past… or an uncertain future? Un-Adoptable? reveals deeply personal questions that arise when pursuing this parenting path. Ratings & Awards: 5-Star Rating from Reader's Favorite. TOP 5 finalist for parenting books in 2020 National Indie Excellence Awards. TOP 10 for books on fostering & TOP 100 for memoirs. (WattPad.com preview release) Nominated for BookLife (in association with Publisher's Weekly) annual award for parenting and family books. Reviews: “A candid and courageous account. I was awed by the accounts described in such detail and psychological insight, she could teach a class in child psychopathology.” - Dr. P. L. Herold, Professor of Psychology, Cal-State. "This book is a must-read for everyone who is currently providing care or considering foster care or adoption. In addition, social workers, therapists, church officials, and medical practitioners will benefit from seeing their impact on our families." - Lesia Knudsen About the Author: Janelle Molony, M.S.L., advocates for adoptions of special needs children. She writes encouraging, faith-based stories for national parenting publications and online (www.AdoptionToLife.com / @AdoptionToLife).
Author : Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481415581
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Three More Words written by Ashley Rhodes-Courter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rhodes-Courter expands on life beyond the foster care system, the joys and heartbreak with a family she's created, and her efforts to make peace with her past"--Amazon.com.
Author : Johnny Carr
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1433677989
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (336 download)
Download or read book Orphan Justice written by Johnny Carr and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining biblical theology and a personal journey with the latest social research, "Orphan Justice" moves readers from talking about global orphan care to actually doing something about it.
Author : Helen Ramaglia
Publisher : Inspiring Voices
ISBN 13 : 9781462402939
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)
Download or read book From Foster to Fabulous written by Helen Ramaglia and published by Inspiring Voices. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a former foster child, I know how it feels to be alone, to feel lost, to feel hopeless, and to feel helpless. I also know you can make a difference in the life of a foster child. I've been there. While my story is not unique, I want to share it in order to help the caring people of America walk in the shoes of a child who experiences physical, mental, and emotional abuse; is removed from everything she knows; is provided a roof over her head by the State and strangers; and then is thrust into adulthood totally unprepared but later succeeds. I want them to see, touch, and feel what the abused/foster child suffers and why they are who they are. I want them to see the major gaps in the child's life skills and social abilities and why they exist. We must walk in the child's shoes in order to understand them. Only then will we be able to truly fill the enormous amount of needs they have and feel confident in adopting, fostering, and working with foster children. We must fully understand the heart and life of a foster child before we can effectively foster, adopt, or work with this vulnerable population of extraordinary children. I invite you to walk with me, and learn how it truly feels to grow up as "nobody's child." A little girl destined to failure, confined by abuse, and traumatized by foster care is inspired by faith to succeed.
Author : Theresa Cameron
Publisher : Townsend Press
ISBN 13 : 1591943639
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Learning to Live: A Black Woman's Journey Beyond Foster Care written by Theresa Cameron and published by Townsend Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first book, Foster Care Odyssey, Theresa Cameron unforgettably described the 18 years she spent as a "ward of the state"—a black girl growing up under the control of a largely white charity in Buffalo, New York. In this sequel,Theresa tells what happened after she "aged out" of the foster care system. Without family or community support, Theresa struggles to find her way through the maze of adult life, from college and employment to friendship and romance. Throughout it all, the one-time abandoned black baby grapples with the questions of her own identity and place in an often inhospitable world.
Author : Barbara Waterman
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1846424259
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Birth of an Adoptive, Foster or Stepmother written by Barbara Waterman and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2003-09-18 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoptive, foster and stepmothers, like biological mothers, find their lives completely changed by motherhood although they are not always granted the rights and privileges accorded to those who give birth. Barbara Waterman explores the common experiences that are shared by all those who enter the motherhood portal. She highlights the importance of wider family, community and professional support for non-biological parents and primary care-givers of both genders, and their children. A stepmother herself and a practicing psychologist, Waterman's writing is illustrated throughout with vignettes of children and parents from a range of backgrounds. She shows the important ways in which a non-biological attachment is both more similar to and more different from a biological attachment than is currently understood. In doing this, Waterman broadens the notion of the `traditional' family, and offers a positive alternative to the myth of the perfect mother. All kinds of step-, adoptive and foster families and those coming into contact with them will find this thoroughly researched and personal book an indispensable guide.
Author : Christine Mitchell
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1481726307
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (817 download)
Download or read book Welcome Home, Forever Child written by Christine Mitchell and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-01-18 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally.a book that genuinely celebrates a young child joining their forever family past infancy. With its touching message of love and reassurance, and whimsical illustrations,Welcome Home, Forever Child is sure to be cherished by children and parents alike. While best suited to children ages two to eight, this gem will undoubtedly be enjoyed by older children as well. Most childrens adoption books reflect infant adoptions, and may not be appropriate for the older child who spent their early years in foster care or an orphanage. Welcome Home, Forever Child is a much needed book that social workers and therapists will want to recommend to families who adopted their child past the age of two. The book helps parents reassure children of their permanent place in the new family, and of how much they are wanted and loved. It will also make a very special and meaningful keepsake gift for a child upon joining his or her new family, upon finalizing the adoption, or upon the anniversary of either event.
Author : Rebecca Jean Compton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190247797
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Adoption Beyond Borders written by Rebecca Jean Compton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a ringing endorsement of international adoption based on comprehensive evidence from social and biological sciences paired with the author's first-hand experience visiting a Kazakhstani orphanage for nearly a year. A balanced account of the evidence supports international adoption as a viable means of promoting child welfare.
Author : United States. National Commission on Children
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Beyond Rhetoric written by United States. National Commission on Children and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clifford Schrage
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1683502841
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (835 download)
Download or read book Silas Dillon of Cary County written by Clifford Schrage and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as that “rarest of novels,” this heartbreaking story of tragedy and triumph follows a boy’s struggle through foster care to a chance at happiness (Vince Clemente, Professor Emeritus, Stony Brook University). Born to a chemically dependent, emotionally unstable mother who cannot care for him, young Silas Dillon is thrust into the cold and bureaucratic foster care system on Cary Island in New York Bay. Worse still, his mother selfishly refuses to give him up for full adoption, dooming Silas to a chaotic life between brief stays with her and various foster homes. With no one to trust or love, Silas grows old beyond his years, overwhelmed by loneliness, alienation, anger, and self-destructive behavior. As years go by, he grows into a bitter, resentful young man. As hopeless as his situation may seem, there is still hope for Silas to find joy in his world. But it will take every bit of strength he has to unshoulder the pain and betrayal of his past and take control of his future . . .
Author : Bill Blacquiere
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493421832
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Called to Care written by Bill Blacquiere and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more individuals, families, and churches are seeking ways they can respond to the biblical mandate to care for "the least of these." The desire to help children coming from difficult situations is a necessary starting point, but what comes next? You need to know the steps for getting involved and what will truly help. Filled with real-life stories and practical advice, Called to Care starts by helping you honestly assess your motivation to help--sometimes the wrong motivation sets the stage for an unsuccessful experience. From there, the book shows what adoption and foster care really look like in a variety of situations, from domestic and international adoptions to short-term foster care and foster-to-adopt arrangements. Also included is how churches and individuals can minister to refugees. Rounding out this comprehensive yet concise book are tips for assessing your preparedness, how to meet common emotional and physical challenges, and the most effective ways to help families stay together and thrive. Bethany is a global nonprofit that supports children and families with world-class social services, all designed to help families thrive. We believe every child deserves to be loved, connected, and empowered through family.
