foster care
What Foster and Adoptive Parenting Does to Your Body
For six months out of 2017, Darren and I, Margie, had a total of six kids we were parenting who, between them, had multiple needs which required us to be in a stage of constant high alert. We w...
Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma
From the Cover of Creative Therapies for Complex Trauma: Helping Children and Families in Foster Care, Kinship Care or Adoption edited by Anthea Hendry and Joy Hasler: “A burgeoning evidence bas...
Adjusting Dreams with Kids with Special Needs: 4 Tips to Help Them
This past spring we attended a high school graduation for the first time as parents of a graduate. During the ceremony, we were inundated with numbers. Ninety percent of the 470 graduates were ...
6 Tips To Build Relationship With Birth Parents
As a foster parent, many of us tend to join the journey to help children. Before getting licensed many parents tend to dream about spending holidays with foster kiddo or celebrating the child&#...
Life Work With Children Who Are Fostered or Adopted
From the Cover of Life Work with Children Who Are Fostered or Adopted by Joy Rees: “This new book from life work expert Joy Rees explains the value of effective and meaningful life work with children ...
The Foster Care System Needs to be Healed, Not Fixed
Guest Blog by Felecia Neil Felecia Neil is a foster care alumni who has 12 years of experience working within residential settings and has served as a foster parent for the past 5 years. The Back Stor...
4 Tips for Recognizing Positive Changes in Foster & Adoptive Kids
I spend very little time on Facebook because I find myself distracted and losing time because of interesting and inspiring videos and posts. One such post was a video about a little squirrel who had b...
Transfiguring Adoption Changes: Honoring Beginnings
Today, August 1, 2018, marks new beginnings for Transfiguring Adoption. When Darren and I began Transfiguring Adoption a few years ago, we initially planned to begin the process of becoming a federall...
When Children Are Property
When birth parents experience the removal of their children by child protective services, they tend to have a few different reactions: Work the Plan – Work Hard They do everything in their power...