First Home Care

Books on Foster Parenting

• "The Lost Boy: A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family" by Dave Pelzer
• "Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Disturbed Foster and Adoptive Children" by Richard J. DeLaney and Frank R. Kunstal
• "Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child: Making Sense of the Past" by Betsy Keefer, Jayne E. Schooler, Jack G. Kammer (Illustrator), Kristi Anne Kammer (Illustrator)
• "When Do I Go Home?: Intervention Strategies for Foster Parents and Helping Professionals" by Theodore J. Stein
• "Practical Tools for Foster Parents" by Lana Temple-Plotz, Michael Sterba
• More Book Recommendations

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Spotlight

Attention Parents! The 2009 Training Calendar has been updated.

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