You aren't alone as you face the most intense and overwhelming challenges of parenting.
Foster and adoptive parents long for their children to experience hope in places of deep and complex pain. Yet seasons of relational, emotional or behavioral crisis can be part of the journey — and may feel overwhelming.
As a parent, you may find yourself wondering:
How do I navigate this when I’ve tried everything I know and it still isn’t working? Is healing even possible, or will the hard things my child has experienced have the last word in their story?
When There Is Crisis is a handbook to guide you through these seasons as a parent — or equip you to walk alongside families in these moments of crisis.
You'll find tangible guidance to meet you where you are, including:
Curated Insights
drawing on research, biblical wisdom and real-life experience.
Curated Insights
This book sorts through the overwhelming volume of advice you hear as a parent to identify core principles and practices to focus on.
Practical Guidance
to help you respond to crises with clarity and confidence.
Practical Guidance
You’ll find immediate steps to keep your family safe, and helpful questions as you consider therapy or other interventions.
Key Principles
to guide decisions about residential care.
Key Principles
Find a compassionate and clarifying framework to help you evaluate residential care in particularly intense seasons of crisis.
Everyday Practices
that support long-term healing and growth.
Everyday Practices
Explore daily habits — from sleep and nutrition to time connecting with God and each other — that can contribute to growth over time.
Discover:
Immediate steps to take in a crisis
Honest reflections from parents about hard seasons
The complex factors that can compound crisis
Insights from young people on their own journeys
Your unique and influential role as a parent
Holistic approaches to care for your whole family
Download a Free Sample Bundle
Foundational to navigating crises is understanding the complex web of factors that converge in the world of foster and adoptive parenting. This sample includes the Introduction and Chapter 1, which dive into these very ideas, providing an initial framework for understanding periods of intense struggle.
About the Author
Rachel Medefind
Read the book When There Is Crisis today.
Let this guide come alongside you in both the realities of struggle and the hope that can still break through. This book will help you keep walking with your child in the hardest seasons, while entrusting God with outcomes beyond your control.
