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Mission Wise: Scripture, Science, and Serving the World’s Most Vulnerable
Mission Wise: Scripture, Science, and Serving the World’s Most Vulnerable
You want to engage with the work God is doing in the world. We want to help you do so with excellence when it comes to caring for vulnerable children and families. Mission Wise curates today’s best practices and principles to give you clarity and confidence to take the next step forward in your mission … Read more
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Until There’s More Than Enough
Until There’s More Than Enough
The words “NOT ENOUGH” are heard every day inside of our nation’s foster care system . . . Not enough resources. Not enough support. Not enough families. But it doesn’t have to be that way where you live. If you were to find and effectively collaborate with the right people, your county could go from … Read more
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Everyone Can Do Something
Everyone Can Do Something
Whether you are launching a new foster care, adoption or orphan care ministry or leading an existing one, Everyone Can Do Something is designed to rally your church around the care of the orphaned and vulnerable in strategic, effective and sustainable ways. You’ll discover the principles you need to take the next best steps for … Read more
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Attachment After Adversity: Building Resilience Through Relationship
Attachment After Adversity: Building Resilience Through Relationship
No matter a child’s history, there is always hope for improving well-being through positive, supportive relationships. Using research on adversity and attachment, this book examines what a history of adversity might look like, how it shapes a child’s expectations for what a relationship is, and how long-term nurture can successfully carry that child into adulthood.
Effectively Engaging Churches
Effectively Engaging Churches
The impact of your ministry is largely dependent upon your capacity to form strategic partnerships with churches. You believe the Church is the answer to the problem your organization is trying to solve, but you’re struggling to get the ear of a busy pastor, navigate through the complicated structures of various church ministry departments or … Read more
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Reframing Foster Care
Reframing Foster Care
Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel Foster parents face a unique set of circumstances and experience a wide array of emotions that few can relate to. Their journey is one of equal parts beauty and brokenness, joy and heartache, excitement and exhaustion. There is no textbook on how to be … Read more
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Vulnerable Children in a Digital Age: Why Children from Hard Places are More Susceptible to Harm from Technology, and What We Can Do to Help
Vulnerable Children in a Digital Age: Why Children from Hard Places are More Susceptible to Harm from Technology, and What We Can Do to Help
Everyday technology use is a pervasive phenomenon with potential for both great good and tremendous harm. Perhaps the most susceptible to these risks are those most vulnerable in general: children who have experienced early childhood adversity, especially those separated from parental care. This book provides actionable knowledge from a scientific perspective, through a faith-based lens, … Read more
The Changing Brain: Created to Heal
The Changing Brain: Created to Heal
Years of research have shown us that adversity can negatively impact even children’s adult lives. Fortunately, we also see now that the right interventions can actually reverse damage, and empower a move toward health. This book provides actionable knowledge about how God created the brain to heal itself, which allows parents, caregivers, and practitioners to … Read more
Helping Children with Disabilities Thrive
Helping Children with Disabilities Thrive
Caring for children with disabilities and loving them well requires patience and compassion. Often, decisions do not come quickly or easily; there are endless hours of research, networking and seeking out resources to best serve the child and family as a whole. This booklet is designed to support parents, caregivers, and professionals serving children with … Read more
The Connected Child
The Connected Child
The adoption of a child is always a joyous moment in the life of a family. Some adoptions, though, present unique challenges. Welcoming these children into your family and addressing their special needs requires care, consideration, and compassion. Written by two research psychologists specializing in adoption and attachment, The Connected Child will help you to … Read more
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Farmer Herman and the Flooding Barn: A story about 344 people working together, to solve a big, big, big problem
Farmer Herman and the Flooding Barn: A story about 344 people working together, to solve a big, big, big problem
Farmer Herman and the Flooding Barn is a children’s book about 344 people working together to solve a big, big, big problem. AND it’s illustrated by 344 kids, adoptive and foster parents, child welfare professionals, pastors, organizational leaders, recording artists, and authors who are all counting on the power of unity to bring hope to … Read more
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The Foster Journey: Often a Winding Road. Always a Trip.
The Foster Journey: Often a Winding Road. Always a Trip.
Whether you are making your way to foster parenting or making your way through it, we’re here to help you navigate. The Foster Journey is designed to be your companion as you consider foster care and prepare to be a great foster parent. With wisdom and humor, it walks you through both the initial decision … Read more
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All In
All In
It was never God’s intent for children to be without a family. This is why Scripture says He assumes the role of father to the fatherless and He sets the lonely in families. This is the heart of God – a good, loving and gracious Father. This is also the basis of His mandate towards … Read more
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El Celebro Cambiante
El Celebro Cambiante
La capacidad del cerebro para cambiar a través de circunstancias externas se llama “neuroplasticidad”. Aunque los niños huérfanos y vulnerables suelen haber sufrido adversidades que hacen que sus cerebros se formen de una manera particular, hay esperanza. Este libro electrónico de 46 páginas encontrará más sobre cómo las intervenciones apropiadas basadas en relaciones pueden permitir … Read more
Niños Vulnerables en la Era Digital
Niños Vulnerables en la Era Digital
La Razón por la que los Niños de Orígines Difíciles Son Más Susceptibles de Sufrir Daños a Causa de la Tecnología, y lo que Podemos Hacer para Ayudarlos.
EL APEGO DESPUÉS DE LA ADVERSIDAD
EL APEGO DESPUÉS DE LA ADVERSIDAD
Desarrollando resiliencia a través de las relaciones