DC Recommended Resources

We’ve put together a list of various resources to help you in your foster, adoptive, and kinship care journey.

Faith-based resources are listed with an *asterisk.
BOOKS

The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

No Drama Discipline by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

*Foster the Family by Jamie Finn

The Connected Child  by Karyn Purvis

The Connected Parent by Karyn Purvis and Lisa Qualls

*Reframing Foster Care: Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel by Jason Johnson

*Thriving as an Adoptive Family by David & Renee Sanford

Parenting your Internationally Adopted Child by Patty Cogen

*Orphanology by Tony Merida & Rick Morton

Parenting the Hurt Child by Keck & Kupecky

Toddler Adoption: The Weaver’s Craft by Mary Hopkins-Best

Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control by Heather T. Forbes

Attaching in Adoption by Deborah Gray

Parenting Is Your Highest Calling: And Eight Other Myths by Leslie Leyland Fields

*Anatomy of the Soul by Curt Thompson

Nurturing Adoptions by Deborah Gray

The Out-of-Sync Child by Carol Kranowitz

Wounded Children Healing Homes by Jayne Schooler, Betsy Keefer Smalley, Timothy Callahan

Ready or Not: 30 Days of Discovery For Foster & Adoptive Parents by Pam Parish

Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors: Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work by Robyn Gobbel

organizations

*Christian Alliance for Orphans

Summit
Together for Adoption

Empowered to Connect conferences & much more

CASE (Center for Adoption Support and Education

Generations United
(for Kinship Families)

Formed Families Forward