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1 FrameWorks Resource Library A variety of books and DVDs are available for loan. 3-4 materials may be checked out at one time and materials are due back 4 weeks after they are recevied. A pre-addresses and stamped mailing envelope will be provided. (Please return materials via media mail). If the books are not returned within one month, the borrowing party will be responsible for the replacement costs. Borrowing requests may be made by phone (1-866-CALL-MWV) or by (rkinder@missionwv.org). Requests may be made for materials which are not currently available through the resource library. Materials will be purchased based on funding availability and relevance of topic. General Foster Care/Adoption Parenting Someone Else's Child: The Foster Parents How to Manual Telling the Truth to Your Adopted or Foster Child To Love a Child: A Complete Guide to Adoption, Foster Parenting, and other Ways to Share Your Love with Children The Post-Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforseen Challenges of Adoption Toddler Adoption: The Weaver's Craft Beneath the Mask: Understanding Adopted Teens Our Own: Adopting and Parenting the Older Child Adoption and the Americans with Disabilities Act: An Issue Brief Lesbian and Gay Fostering and Adoption: Extraordinary yet Ordinary Practical Tools for Foster Parents Journeying Through State Adoption The Ultimate Insiders Guide to Adoption The Supportive Foster Parent Success as a Foster Parent: Everything You Need to Know About Foster Care Parenting Adopted Adolescents: Understanding and Appreciating their Journeys Foster Parenting A Simple Guide to Understanding What it s All About Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child Rebuilding Children's Lives: A Blueprint for Treatment Foster Parents Adoption Piece by Piece: A Toolkit for Parents The Adoption Resource Book: Everything You Ought to Know About Creating an Adoptive Family Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections Talking with Young Children About Adoption Siblings in Adoption and Foster Care: Traumatic Separations and Honored Connections The Foster Parenting Tolbox The Whole Life Adoption Book: Realistic Advice for Building a Healthy Adoptive Family Lifebooks: Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child

2 Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew Fostering Love: One Foster Parent's Journey From Fear to Love" Parenting Difficult Adopted Children Foster Parenting Step by Step: How to Nurture the Traumatized Child and Overcome Conflict The Foster Parenting Manual: A Practical Guide to Creating a Loving, Safe and Stable Home Adopting a Toddler Raising Adopted Children Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss A Child's Journey Through Placement Brothers and Sisters in Adoption: Helping Children Navigate the Relationships When New Kids Join the Family 20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed What Works: How to Raise Amazing Kids in Spite of the Foster Care System Adoption: Choosing it, Living it, Loving it Adoption Nation: How the Adoption Revolution is Transforming Our Families and America On Their Own: What Happens to Youth When They Age Out of the Foster Care System Kinship Care/Grandparents as Parents Raising our Children's Children Pilgrim Prayers for Grandmothers Raising Grandchildren Relatives Raising Children: An Overview of Kinship Care A Kinship Guide to Rescuing Children: For Grandparents and Other Relatives as Children Did You Miss Me? Did You Cry? Going Solo: Representing Yourself in WV Courts Grandparenting with Love and Logic Attachment and Bonding Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special Needs Kids Attachment, Trauma and Healing: Understanding and Treating Attachment Disorder in Children and Families Facilitating Developmental Attachment: The Road to Emotional Recovery and Behavioral Change in Foster and Adopted Children Attaching in Adoption: Practical Tools for Today's Parents Nurturing Adoptions" Creating Resilience after Neglect and Trauma Parenting the Hurt Child: Helping Adoptive Families Heal and Grow Theraplay: Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships Through Attachment- Based Play The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family When Love is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting Children with RAD Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Love and Trust Broken Spirits Lost Souls: Loving Children with Attachment and Bonding Difficulties Attachment-Focused Parenting: Effective Strategies to Care for Children Creating Loving Attachments

3 Mental Health/Special Needs/Behavioral Fostering or Adopting the Troubled Child 99 Ways to Drive Your Child Sane The Sexualized Child in Foster Care: A Guide for Parents and Other Professionals The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder From Chaos to Calm: Effective Parenting of Challenging Children with ADHD and other Behavioral Problems Learning Disabilities A to Z: A Parent's Complete Guide to Learning Disabilities from Preschool to Adulthood From Emotions to Advocacy: The Special Education Survival Guide Childhood Speech, Language and Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know A Parent's Guide to Developmental Delays: Recognizing and Coping with Missed Milestones in Speech, Movement, Learning and Other Areas The Angry Child: Regaining Control When Your Child is Out of Control The Explosive Child: A New Approach fo Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child Parenting Your Out-of-Control Child: An Effective, Easy-to-Use Program for Teaching Self- Control Helping your Anxious Child: A Step by Step Guide for Parents Raising your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent and Energetic The Bipolar Child: The Definitive and Reassuring Guide to Childhood's Most Misunderstood Disorder The Defiant Child: A Parent's Guide to Oppositional Defiant Disorder Children with Prenatal Alcohol and/or Other Drug Exposure: Weighing the Risks of Adoption Recognizing and Managing Children with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effects Lonely, Sad and Angry: How to Help Your Unhappy Child 10 Things Every Child with Autism Wishes you Knew Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Other ASDs Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Complete Guide to Understanding Autism, Asperger's 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders 10 Days to a Less Distracted Child: the Breakthrough Program that Gets Your Kids to Listen, Learn, Focus and Behave Attention Games: 101 Fun, Easy Games That Help Kids Learn to Focus Learning Disabilities A to Z: A Parent's Complete Guide to Learning Disabilities from Behavioral Problems Parenting Children with ADHD: 10 Lessons that Medicine Cannot Teach ADHD: What Every Parent Needs to Know, American Academy of Pediatrics Transracial Adoption Kinki Kreations: A Parent's Guide to Natural Black Hair Care for Kids I Love My Hair! (Children's picture book)

4 Making Cultural Connections: Hair and Skin Care for Children of African Descent Inside Transracial Adoption I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World Mixed Blessing: A Children's Book About a Multiracial Family General Parenting How to Talk so Kids with Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk Same Homework, New Plan: How to Help Your Disorganized Kid Sit Down and Get it Done Raising Good Kids in Tough Times: 7 Crucial Habits for Parent Success The Single Parent Resource Homemade Books to Help Kids Cope: An Easy to Learn Technique for Parents and Professionals Postive Discipline for Teenagers Postive Discipline A-Z: 1001 Solutions to Everyday Parenting Problems Positive Discipline: The First Three Years Positive Discipline for Preschoolers: For Their Early Years- Raising Children Who Are Responsible, Respectful and Resourceful The Postive Discipline for Teenagers Workshop (6 CD set) Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 Postive Time Out: And Over 50 Ways to Avoid Power Struggles in the Home and Classroom Your Defiant Teen: 10 Steps to Resolve Conflict and Rebuild Your Relationship Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool Family Feasts for $75 a Week: A Penny-Wise Mom Shares Her Recipe for Cutting Hundreds From Your Monthly Food Bill Loving Each One Best: A Caring and Practical Approach to Raising Siblings Siblings Without Rivalry Mom, Jason's Breathing on Me: The Solutionto Sibling Bickering Beyond Sibling Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Become Cooperative, Caring and Compassionate Stick Up for Yourself: Every Kid's Guide to Personal Power and Positive Self-Esteem Self-Esteem for a Lifetime: Raising a Successful Child From the Inside Out Simplify Your Life with Kids: 100 Ways to Make Family Life Easier and More Fun Parenting with Love and Logic The Happiest Toddler on the Block: How to Eliminate Tantrums and Raise a Patient, Respectful and Cooperative One to Four Year Old The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer Your Baby's First Year: American Academy of Pediatrics What to Expect The First Year What to Expect the Second Year The Toddler's Busy Book: 365 Games and Activities The No-Cry Discipline Solution The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers Get Out of My Life but First Can You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager

5 Love and Logic for Early Childhood: Practical Parenting from Birth to Six Years The Whole Brain Child The A-Z Guide to Raising Happy, Confident Kids Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours Books for Children Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children The Adventures of Nana Cat and Her Children: Moving In Welcome Home, Forever Child: A Celebration of Children Adopted as Toddlers, Preschoolers and Beyond Finding the Right Spot: When Kids Can't Live with Their Parents Kids Need to Be Safe: A Book for Children in Foster Care Zachary's New Home: A Story for Foster and Adopted Children Family's Change: A Book for Children Experiencing Termination of Parental Rights The Mad, Sad, Glad Book: The Anatomy of Your Attitude What to Do When Your Temper Flares: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Problems with Anger How to Take the Grr Out of Anger Learning to Slow Down and Pay Attention: A Book for Kids with ADHD A Foster-Adoption Story: Angela and Michael's Journey Little Flower: A Journey of Caring A Mother for Choco When I Was Little Like You A Family for Sammy The Star: A Story to Help Young Children Understand Foster Care Visiting the Courthouse: A Kid's Guide to the Courts of WV Sesame Street: We're Different, We're the Same A Terrible Thing Happened All About Adoption: How Families are Made and How Kids Feel About it A Different Home: A New Foster Child's Story Young Adults The Great Gilly Hopkins Belle Prater's Boy Lily's Crossing Returnable Girl The Best I Can Be: Living with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Effects What's Next? Navigating the Foster Care System in WV: A Handbook for Youth Cool, Confident and Strong: 52 Power Moves for Girls Adopted Teens Only: A Survival Guide to Adolescence Foster Girl: A Memoir Surviving Foster Care and Making It Work For You Memoir/Anthology

6 Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses, a Memoir Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes Courter Orphans of the Living: Stories of America's Children in Foster Care Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison I Beat the Odds by Michael Oher Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood The Middle Mom: How to Grow Your Heart by Giving it Away Another Place at the Table One Small Boat: The Story of a Little Girl Lost, Then Found Touched by Adoption: Stories, Letters and Poems The Heart Knows Something Different: Teenage Voices from the Foster Care System Damaged: The Heart Breaking True Story of a Forever Child I Speak for this Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate Growing up in the Care of Strangers: The Experiences, Insights and Rcommendations of Things I Want Eleven Most: Former The Extraordinary Foster Kids Story of a Boy's Journey to a Family of His Own The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook Are We There Yet? The Ultimate Road Trip : Adopting and Raising 22 Kids! The Jonathon Letters: One Family's Use of Support As They Took in, and Fell in Love With, a Troubled Child Church Outreach Small Town, Big Miracles Considering Adoption: A Biblical Perspective Adoption as a Ministry, Adoption as a Blessing Launching an Orphans Ministry in Your Church: Book and DVD) Until Every Child Has a Home (DVD) Adopting for Good: A Guide for People Considering Adoption Successful Adoption: A Guide for Christian Families The Heart of Adoption Wait No More: One Family's Amazing Adoption Journey Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches DVD's Fostering Futures, Orphan Foundation of America Foster Parents Speak, Crossing Bridges and Fostering Change Foster Parent College: ADHD, ADD, ODD Foster Parent College: Positive Parenting 1: Coperation, Tracking and Encouragement Aging Out: What Happens When You're Too Old for Foster Care My Flesh and Blood The Time is Now: A Video for Parents in WV Child Abuse and Negelct proceedings The Adoption Audio Resource: Parent-Led Recruitment and Adoption Support Programs Closure: A Documentary About Adoption From Place to Place Changing the System that Raised Them Short Term 12

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