Resources

Adoption and Foster Care

Books for Children

 
  • A Mother For Chocoby by Keiko Kasza

  • How I Was Adopted by Joanna Cole

  • Over the Moon: An Adoption Taleby by Karen Katz

  • Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born by Jamie Lee Curtis

  • My New Mom and Me(ages 3-7) by Renata Galindo

Movies for Children

  • Kung Fu Panda series

    1. Despicable Me series

    2. Tarzan (Disney)

    3. Boxtrolls

    4. Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip

Children At Risk

Books

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller

  • Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell

  • Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Piper

  • The Disappearing Girl: Learning the Language of Teenage Depression by Dr. Lisa Machoian

  • Lost Boys: Why Our Sons Turn Violent and How We can Save Them by James Garbarino, Augusta Gone, Martha Tod Dudman

  • Teens in Turmoil by Carol Maxym and Leslie York

  • Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation by Steven Levenkron

  • Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception by Abraham Twerski, MD

Websites for Parents