Resources

Recommended Reading for Adults

• The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
• Parenting With Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay
• Parenting the Hurt Child by Gregory Keck and Regina Kupecky
• The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family by Karyn B Purvis, David R Cross, and Wendy Lyons Sunshine
• The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
• Three Little words by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
• Confessions of an Adoptive Parent by Mike Berry
• Reframing Foster Care by Jason Johnson
• Another Place at The Table by Kathy Harrison
• Healing Neen by Tonier Cain

Recommended Reading for Children

• Maybe Days by Jennifer Wilgocki and Marcia Kahn Wright
• A Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M Holmes, Sasha J Mudlaff, and Cary Pillo
• The Invisible String by Patrice Karst
• Families Change by Julie Nelson
• God Found Us You by Lisa Tawn Bergren
• I Love You All The Same by Donna Kieth

25 things you can do to help children in foster care with out becoming a foster parent

Parenting Resources

Online Resources

• Attachment & Trauma Network, Inc.
• National Foster Parent Association
• North American Council on Adoptable Children
• Fostering Perspectives
• Prevent Child Abuse America

North Carolina Therapeutic Resources

• New Mentality, PC 704-799-1270
  • Tracy Alston, LCMHC, BCB, BCN
  • 816 Brawley School Road, Suite D Mooresville, NC 28117