Books
Title | Author | Notes |
Adopted for Life | Russell Moore | Adoption focused Faith-based, primarily adoption focused with small mention of foster care |
The Connected Child | Dr. Karen Purvis | Foster care and adoption focused |
The Connected Parent | Dr. Karen Purvis and Lisa Qualls | Foster care and adoption focused |
Foster the Family | Jamie C. Finn | Foster care focused, Faith-based |
The Mystery of Risk: Drugs, Alcohol, Pregnancy, and the Vulnerable Child | Dr. Ira J. Chasnoff | Prenatal drug exposure |
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew | Sherrie Eldridge | Adoption focused |
I Would Meet You Anywhere: A Memoir | Susan Kiyo Ito | Transracial foster/adopt families. This book contains some brief yet difficult subject matter regarding abortion |
"You Should Be Grateful": Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption | Angela Tucker | Transracial foster/adopt families |
Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self | Robin Marantz Henig, David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schecter | Adoption focused |
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir | Nicole Chung | Transracial foster/adopt families |
The Adoptee's Journey: From Loss and Trauma to Healing and Empowerment | Cameron Lee Small | Trauma |
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing | Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz | Trauma |
Keep the Doors Open: Lessons Learned from a Year of Foster Parenting | Kristin Berry | Foster care |
Fostered: One Woman’s Powerful Story of Finding Faith and Family through Foster Care | Tori Hope Petersen | Foster care, Faith-based |
Podcasts
Title | Audience / Topic | |
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster, and Kinship Care | Foster care, kinship care, and adoption | |
Inside Transracial Adoption | Transracial foster/adopt families | |
The Forgotten Podcast | ||
The Riverside Project Podcast |
Websites
Link | Audience / Topic |
creatingafamily.org | Foster care, kinship care, and adoption |
https://heartgallerytexas.org/training-resources/ | Foster and adopt / Resources and webinars |
Therapy/Counseling
Counselor/Practice | Notes |
| TF-CBT Therapy | For trauma - Accessed through the Texas Children's Hospital Foster Care Clinic and is covered by Superior Health (foster care Medicaid) |
| Stonebridge Alliance | For Trauma and developmental evaluations. Based in San Antonio but offer virtual appointments and are used to working with kids in CPS. Available for quick turnaround on developmental evaluations required for adoption out of foster care. |
The Oaks Family Connection Center | Through First Baptist |
Other Resources
Company/Ministry | Notes |
SafeRideHealth | For foster care/children with Medicaid. Reimburse for mileage to transport foster children to medical appointments |
| Every Kids Sports Pass | Grants of up to $150 for foster care children with Medicaid who participate in sports. You can reapply for this grant each season. |
SuperiorHealth Grants Contact number for the CVS program is 1-888-628-2770 | Grants of $50 Walmart Gift Cards and $25 CVS gift cards for kids in foster care. Once per year per child. |
CPR Center of Houston Jacob Dorfman (cprcenterhouston@gmail.com) | CPR certification for foster parents and caregivers |
The "GI" Guy LLC Keshawn Jameson (281-746-1406) | Gas inspections for foster parent licensing |
Wilson Fire Equipment | Fire extinguisher inspections for foster parent licensing |
Oak Forest Foster Closet | Clothing, shoes, bedding, diapers, toys etc. for foster care and adoption |
Carrying Hope | Provide backpacks and first-night items (gender & age specific) for kids in foster care |
Hopes Bridge | Resale shop, that offers FREE shopping to children in care and foster families. Clothing, shoes, furniture, new toiletries & beauty items, diapers and baby items. |
Celebrate with a Cake | Free birthday cake for children in foster care |
Foster Love | First night bags, birthday boxes, STEM boxes for children in foster care |