Discover What Adoption and Foster Care Really Look Like
If you are considering adoption or foster care or are already somewhere in this difficult and complicated process, you need trusted information from people who have been where you are.
Mike and Kristin Berry have adopted eight children and cared for another 23 kids in their nine-year stint as foster parents. They aren't just experts. They have experienced every emotional high and low and encountered virtually every situation imaginable as parents. Now, they want to share what they've learned with you.
Get the answers you need to the following questions, and many more:
Should I foster parent or adopt? How do I know?
What is the first step in becoming an adoptive or foster parent?
What are the benefits of an open versus closed adoption?
How and when do I tell my child that he or she is adopted?
How do I help my child embrace his or her cultural and racial identity?
Honestly Adoption will provide you with practical, down-to-earth advice to make good decisions in your own adoption and foster parenting journey and give you the help and hope you need.
- Adoptive Parenting
- Resource (Foster) Parenting
- ORPARC and Community Partner Information Packets
- For Grandparents and other Kinship Caregivers
- Special Needs Parenting
- Child Development Stages
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- Tribal Resources
- ORPARC Training Recordings
- Training recordings
- ADHD and parenting
- Difficult behaviors and big feelings
- Transracial Adoption
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