BOOK

FindCenter AddIcon
Book Image

No Sugar Coating: The Coffee Talk You Need About Foster Parenting

Book Image

By Jillana Goble — 2025

No Sugar-Coating is a warm, straight-up guide that reads like a conversation with a knowledgeable friend. It is filled with practical suggestions interwoven with compelling narrative rooted in foster parenting experience. See more...

Buy on Amazon

FindCenter Video Image
03:05

Cancer and Relationships

For adults who have been diagnosed and treated for any type of cancer, this video includes information on how cancer survivors can improve their wellness and quality of life in six areas of wellness: physical, emotional, social, spiritual, thinking (cognitive) and work.

Video
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Before You Let Your Child Fail, Read This

It’s not easy to let our kids be less than perfect.

Article
Rachel Simmons
2015
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Mom’s Viral Photo Captures the Heartbreak and Joy of Foster Parenting

A family brought back together and healed is a wonderful thing, but on the other side of that is a foster family left with a broken heart.

Article
Genevieve Shaw Brown
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Self-Care for Foster Parents

Parenting foster children who have come to your home from trauma, neglect or abuse is likely the hardest work you will ever do. It requires you to have a wide variety of tools in your parenting toolbox. Self-care for foster parents is one of the most important tools you can have in that toolbox.

Article
Creating a Family Staff
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
07:17

What No One Tells You Before Becoming a Foster Parent

So you complete your foster care pride training and you are a new foster parent. It is hard to describe those first few experience and feelings. Foster Care is a roller coaster and I continue to learn lessons every single day.

Video
2018
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

What It’s Like to Be a Foster Mom on Mother’s Day

The author of this essay has cared for 16 kids in the last three years and yet, many people do not recognize her as a “real” mom.

Article
Manda Carpenter
2021
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
09:41

Being an Abandoned Child | Brendan Maguire | TEDxNSCCWaterfront

Brendan’s community became his home when he moved from house to house after his parents left him with his three brothers and a sister when he was 4 at a shopping mall. They never came back.

Video
2016
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

10 Ways to Get and Give Emotional Support

Some tips to help you nourish each other's hearts.

Article
Barton Goldsmith Ph.D.
2011
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image

Portals Not Problem Solvers

As caregivers, we need to be more than problem solvers. We need to be portals to a larger possibility.

Article
Frank Ostaseski
2017
FindCenter AddIcon
FindCenter Video Image
05:55

What Not to Do If a Child Is Self Harming

This video provides advice and ideas for concerned parents, teachers or other adults who want to know what they should and should not say and do if a child or young person discloses that they have been self-harming.

Video
2017
FindCenter AddIcon

EXPLORE TOPIC

Foster Parenting