The following publications can help you learn more about foster care, or guide you through your experience as a foster parent.

MAGAZINES

Foster Families Today - A bimonthly magazine exploring the issues profoundly affecting foster families and children in foster care. 1 year subscription - $24, six issues.

BOOKS

Do You Want to Be a Foster Parent?
By Sharon Davis

The author, a foster mother for 10 years of children from infancy to teens, offers some valuable insight for foster parents and those contemplating foster parenting. It details actual experiences and insights into the care of children who need love and help.

Small Feats: Unsung Accomplishments and Everyday Heroics of Foster and Adoptive Parents
by Richard Delaney

This book provides an overall picture of the range of challenges confronted by foster and adoptive parents, as well as the creative ways they've overcome some of those challenges. Delaney recounts creative, sometimes off-the-wall parenting approaches foster and adoptive parents have used to reach their troubled youngsters.

My Foster Care Journey: A Foster/Adoption Lifebook
By Beth O'Malley

In this book, O'Malley provides a detailed, step-by-step overview of the process of creating a lifebook with a foster child. A lifebook, which is a record of the child's life from birth to the present, uses words, photos, and original artwork to chronicle major events in a child's life. Best of all, you'll learn how to lead a child through the process using child-friendly terms.