Leaving The American Sector
Leaving The American Sector by Mercy Projects Director Jeff Thompson is an exciting and inspirational story in the vein of "God's Smuggler" by Brother Andrew. For 12 years Jeff made secret missions behind the Iron Curtain. In the process he was caught by the East Geman Secret Police (the Stasi) and a covert plan was developed by the Stasi to apprehend him.
This is a story that will...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Mercy Projects |
Parenting the Hurt Child The world is full of hurt children, and bringing one into your home can quickly derail the easy family life you once knew. Get effective suggestions, wisdom, and advice to parent the hurt child in your life. The best hope for tragedy prevention is knowledge! Updated and revised.
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Insights & Gifts Video Series This new 16 video series by Dr. Karyn Purvis (developed in partnership with the TCU Institute of Child Development) offers seven insights and seven gifts that are highly relevant for those who are parenting or considering adopting or fostering children from hard places.
To watch the videos, click here:...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Sharing Power With Your Child In this brief video, Dr. Karyn Purvis explains the benefits of parents sharing appropriate amounts of power with their children through choice giving, compromises and other means. By sharing power appropriately with their children, parents can teach them to communicate effectively about their needs and fears, rather than resorting to behaviors, and can help them develop a strong foundation that...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Liberia Adoption Blog The blog is an excellent resource for any adoptive family. Full of adoption resources and information from an adoption coordinator's perspective.
| Type: Blog | | Related Organization: Christian Adoption Services |
Playful Interaction Play puts the fun in fundamental - central to a child's well-being now and in the future. Through play, children learn to develop the social and emotional skills they need to succeed in life. Playful Interaction, featuring child development experts, Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross, along with other child development experts, outlines the importance of play and provides practical examples of...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Healthy Touch Touch is a universal language - more dynamic and powerful than any other form of communication. More than an integral part of everyday life. Touch is essential to our very existence. Healthy Touch features child development experts, Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross, along with other renowned experts. It explores research about touch and provides practical applications for adding healthy touch...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Empowering, Connecting & Correcting Principles In this nearly two-hour presentation, Dr. Purvis, a developmental psychologist, explains her research-based approach with children who come from what she calls “hard places.” These are children who have been exposed to drugs and alcohol in utero or suffered abuse, trauma or neglect early in life. She explains how harm during these critical stages of brain growth causes significant...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
The Neurochemistry of Fear The fundamental goal of this seminar is to empower parents and professionals to become healers in the lives of at-risk children and to discuss interventions developed through our work with families of at-risk children. Tragically, children who have been harmed, neglected and/or abused are at significantly increased risk for behavioral problems, relationship failures and early-onset mental illness....
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Healing Research This seminar helps parents and professionals understand how past and current research gives insights into the behaviors of at-risk children. Dr. Purvis focuses on undertanding how physiological alterations are induced by neglect, abuse or trauma.
For more information or to purchase, click here: http://www.child.tcu.edu/DVD%20Sales.asp
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Facilitating Behavioral Change One of the most commonly asked questions for the staff at The Institute of Child Development is how to deal with "problem behaviors". In this DVD Dr. Purvis explores the concepts of connecting and correcting principles. The information in this session is an introduction to the unique approach developed by Dr. Purvis and offers some examples of applying these to real life situations.
For...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
The Attachment Dance The attachment relationship betwen parents and their children is one of the most cherished experiences of our lives. This DVD focuses on recognizing features of the attachment relationship, how to help your child heal from attachment problems and facing your own attachment so that you can become a healer for your child. Information shared in this seminar is designed to enrich your understanding of...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
A Sensory World: Making Sense of Sensory Disorders Children from hard places are often impacted in many different ways by their histories. One of the most profound, yet often overlooked, is the way in which these children’s sensory processing is affected. The new educational video, A Sensory World: Making Sense of Sensory Disorders, produced by the TCU Institute of Child Development features Dr. Karyn Purvis and offers insights...
Safe Families Model Webinar This webinar, hosted by the Christian Alliance for Orphans, highlights the Safe Families Model which provides a transformational alternative to foster care that makes the homes of local Christians and their church community the center of care. This model now serves more than 1,000 youth in the Chicago area each year, and is now being replicated by Alliance organizations and churches in...
| Type: Websource | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Beyond Benefits: More Ways to Make Your Workplace Adoption-Friendly This booklet suggests opportunities for employers to help employees who are considering adoption, are engaged in the process, or have already adopted and ways to promote the cause of adoption in the workplace. Created with the support of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
http://www.davethomasfoundation.org/Free-Adoption-Resources/Adoption-Benefits
Adoption Benefits Toolkit for Employers A two-part toolkit to establish adoption benefits, such as financial reimbursement and paid leave for employee who adopt: includes a folder and CD-rom with step-by-step instructions to establish a policy; and the booklet Beyond Benefits: More Ways to Make Your Workplace Adoption-Friendly. The CD-rom includes customizable documents and samples, making it easy to propose and establish an adoption...
Learning & Un-Learning to Parent Your Child Children from hard places have unique histories and needs. As a result, parents of these children need to learn how to love and parent them well. This requires that parents not only learn strategies that will be effective in helping them heal, but they will also need to ‘un-learn’ previous ways of parenting — whether those are parenting strategies that were successful...
| Type: Church Resource | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Better Care Network Toolkit This resource is to aid social work and child care practitioners and policy makers around the world in planning and providing better care for children—including family strengthening and out of home placement. Divided in five categories, the Toolkit contains a selection of practical guides and manuals to support a quality care system and the delivery of alternative...
Finding a Place to Start Parents who are struggling to connect with their children often find it difficult to find any real measure of hope. In this brief video, Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the importance for parents to find even a single point of connection as way to build a bridge so that they can begin to reach their child.
Finding A Place to Start from Tapestry on Vimeo.
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
20 Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed "A must-read and must-keep resource for all adoptive parents, getting straight to the core of adoption issues. This is one of the most validating books for adoptive parents I have ever read, helping them to know not only that their experiences are different but how to turn challenges into healing moments." —Review by Heather T. Forbes, LCSW, author of Beyond Consequences, Logic,...
FamilyLife Today Insterview with Dr. Karyn Purvis
Recently Dr. Karyn Purvis was interviewed on the FamilyLife Today radio program. During this three part interview, Dr. Purvis discusses the characteristics of children from hard places, the importance of parents having realistic expectations and tools and strategies that can help parents effectively correct behaviors and develop strong and lasting connections...
Understanding the Importance of Neurotransmitters Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers that help our bodies think, feel and move. However, the levels of key neurotransitters in many children from hard places are often too high, too low and/or out of balance. In this brief video, Dr. Karyn Purvis explains the importance of neurotransmitters, both in terms of helping parents gain new insight and compassion for their children and also for...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
The Great Behavior Breakdown The Great Behavior Breakdown identifies 27 of the most problematic, serious, and challenging behaviors that parents face, broken them down, and provided step-by-step guidance and insight for transforming your family conflict immediately. This is a must-read book for any parent or professional working with children who have seemingly uncontrollable behavior. Common diagnoses for such children are...
Preparing Kids in Your Home for Fostering Click below to read a helpful article/tip sheet about preparing kids in your home to foster:
http://www.wifostercareandadoption.org/library/1047/preparingyourkids.pdf
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
How to Talk to my Kids about Adoption Watch below as Christian counselor Julie Lowe responds to this question that so many families ask:
Setting Your Child Up to Succeed Parents often focus much of their attention on obtaining the right skills and strategies to effectively deal with misbehavior — and this is for good reason. All parents of children from hard places need to understand how to address misbehavior in ways that correct while still connecting. But parents also need to understand the importance of setting their child up to succeed.
In this brief...
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Love Lessons: Understanding, Learning, and Finding Purpose While Raising Challenging Children This book will take you on a journey of discovery and healing through a mother's eyes. It uncovers the truth about childhood trauma, how it affects the mind and spirit, and what is required to repair the broken bonds of attachment and trust. It is a personal tutorial in lessons of heartache and hope, despair and dedication, failures and forgiveness. Understanding, Learning, and finding purpose...
Foster Parent Handbook The Foster Care and Adoption Resource Center staff and members of a statewide work group created the model for the Wisconsin Foster Parent Handbook contained below.
http://www.wifostercareandadoption.org/snav/292/page.htm
| Type: Curriculum | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Video Coverage of Summit VI A CBN headline news story today opened a poignant window into last month’s Summit VI and the rising tide of Christian commitment to orphans. Commentary by Pat Robertson following the news segment, however, is likely to prod fierce discussion... click here to watch the news story and read the rest of the written report!
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Christian Alliance for Orphans |
Connecting With Kids Through Stories: Using Narratives To Facilitate Attachment In Adopted Children Children whose early development has been damaged by abuse or neglect are notoriously difficult to reach. Through many years' therapeutic work with adopted children and their families, Denise B. Lacher and Todd Nichols have developed an exciting and innovative technique which uses stories as the main mode for helping parents to communicate and connect with their troubled children. Connecting with...
Positive Parenting This articles strives to:
• Discuss the concept of “positive” parenting.
• Explain the developmental stages children experience to achieve self-confidence.
• Identify twelve common behavorial problems and offer a positive response to each.
• Provide an action plan of positive parenting strategies.
• List resources — including books and websites...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Team Building – Family, School, Therapists and Healthcare Workers OBJECTIVES:
This article seeks to assist families involved in adoption and foster care to develop advocacy and team building skills by:
• Defining and identifying family management styles when a child has special medical, physical, or emotional needs.
• Identifying necessary elements of professional team involvement.
• Providing information for choosing therapists, counselors...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Me, My Child and the Teachers: Teaming Up at School Many children, including adopted and foster children, have exceptional education needs. These children will also have emotional challenges and turmoil that can seem overwhelming in almost any household, where caretakers are often balancing the needs of other children, homework help, daily chores and extra-curricular involvement.
When parents or caretakers face raising and schooling children with...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
The Adopted Child Goes To School When the child enters school, it may be the first time he is confronted with adoption issues. He may realize for the first time that there are different ways of forming a family, and that he is different from other kids as he has joined his family through adoption. Questions of “real family”, “birth parent” and identity may confuse him, especially if there has not been an...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
The Adoption Process and Children with Medical Needs This article helps pre-adoptive and post-adoptive families involved in the adoption of children with significant medical needs. It strives to:
• Introduce an empowerment model to help families manage all aspects of care.
• Help families determine what level of care they can handle.
• Encourage families to identify their strengths.
• Identify resources and form...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
The Adoption Process & Children With Cognitive Needs This article strives to assist pre-adoptive and post-adoptive families involved in the adoption of children with developmental delays and disabilities by:
• Helping them to determine what level of need they can handle.
• Encouraging families to identify family and individual strengths.
• Identifying resources and forming links to them.
• Facilitating family...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Child Development Personality development occurs in a neurologically programmed sequence. Given a reasonably responsive environment, a child will develop the capacity to love and trust, express emotions, use symbols, think logically, develop self-control and a conscience, all occurring in that predictable sequence.
An abusive or neglectful environment can greatly effect a child's developmental process. This...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
The Adoption Process and Children with Life-Threatening Ilnesses Children with life-threatening illnesses bring complex psychological, physical and medical challenges to families. These children might suffer from cancer, heart disease, HIV or AIDS, or a myriad of congenital degenerative conditions. They need families who can deal with the psychological aspects of death and dying while acting as medical advocates to make decisions on care and treatment that...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Difficulty with Bonding—Developing Family Bonds through Adoption While adoptive families often develop strong ties and secure attachments, members of the adoption triad come to the adoption experience through loss. These issues remain in family relationships even when children are adopted at birth. Whether the adoption was an open adoption, a closed adoption, or multi-cultural or international adoption, issues surrounding this loss can be significant.
This...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
How Adoption and Foster Care Affect the Family System Just as in birth families, adoptive and foster families usually consist of a parent or parents, sometimes a sibling, and other times many siblings. If grandparents live nearby or are involved in the family, they may become an integral part of the acceptance process. The more involved grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins are with the children, the more impact their response to adoption or foster...
| Type: Article | | Related Organization: Adoption Resources of Wisconsin |
Created to Connect Study Guide Created To Connect: A Christian’s Guide to The Connected Child is a study guide created by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Michael & Amy Monroe to help illuminate the biblical principles that serve as the foundation for the philosophy and interventions detailed in Dr. Purvis’ book, The Connected Child. This study guide is designed to help adoptive and foster parents...
| Type: Curriculum | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Dangerous Adoption This article by Paul and Robin Pennington shares both warnings and encouragement for potential adoptive parents:
"By now you no doubt have heard about the Russian 8-year-old adoptee sent by his American adoptive mom….alone…back to Russia with a note. The repercussions of this decision on hundreds of Russian children waiting for families are devastating to be sure. What many...
Caring for Orphans: Options Beyond Adoption You may not feel called to adoption, but there are other ways you can help care for orphan children. This program offers practical suggestions. You'll also be inspired to get involved as David Swoap talks about his ministry to street kids in Brazil and Wendy Perry discusses her childhood experiences in our nation's foster care system.
For more information or to purchase this CD, click here:...
| Type: Audio | | Related Organization: Focus on the Family |
The Adoption Network: Your Guide to Starting a Support System In The Adoption Network, Laura Christianson, founder and director of Seattle-based Heartbeat Ministries, walks you through the basics of planning and launching a support system for adoptive families, foster families, birth parents, or adoptees. Packed with practical pointers and worksheets, this handbook will equip you with the tools you need to create a vibrant adoption support network.
For more...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Focus on the Family |
Effective Discipline Strategies for Adoptive and Foster Families Watch this video from adoption and foster care expert Dr. Karyn Purvis:
Effective Discipline Strategies for Adoptive & Foster Families - Dr. Karyn Purvis from Tapestry on Vimeo.
| Type: Training | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Loving Our Kids on Purpose "Here is a fresh look at the age-old role of parenting.Loving Our Kids on Purpose brings the principles of the Kingdom of God and revival into our strategy as parents. 2 Corinthians 3:17 tells us that Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom. Most parenting approaches train children to learn to accept being controlled by well meaning parents and adults. Unfortunately, God is not going...
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The Beyond Consequences Institute, LLC was created to educate and provide the resources for helping children with severe acting out behaviors. Many of these children have been previously diagnosed with such disorders as reactive attachment disorder, bipolar, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, depression, and the list goes on and on.
Most traditional techniques accepted amongst...
Resources from the National Foundation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children The National Foundation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NFPCC) unites the leading Russian specialists with experience working with children at risk of being abandoned and families in crisis since the late 1980s. The NFPCC was born out of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, which began working in the child welfare field in 1996.
This website has many helpful...
One Million Arrows: Raising Your Children to Change the World "God has called His people to leave a legacy of godliness for the next generation. One Million Arrows picks up on that high calling and casts a God-sized vision for parents who long to see their children used by God in mighty ways...it will challenge you to raise your children as ambassadors for Christ rather than casualties of the culture-war." —Review by Dennis Rainey,...
How to Support a Child Who Has Been Abused This pamphlet gives step by step advice for responding to a child when they've told you about abuse in their life:
http://www.ccpas.co.uk/Documents/Help%20-%20help%20abused.pdf
Looking at Ourselves to Help our Children Heal Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis explains the importance of parents being willing to look at their own histories as well as their expectations as they seek to connect with their children.
Looking at Ourselves to Help Our Children Heal from Tapestry on Vimeo.
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Parenting Strategies That Connect Watch as Dr. Purvis provides practical insight to parents about how they can effectively correct their children while still empowering and connecting with them.
Parenting Strategies That Connect from Tapestry on Vimeo.
| Type: Video/DVD | | Related Organization: Empowered to Connect |
Castaway Kid "Before you sit down to read Castaway Kid by Rob Mitchell, I would suggest that you obtain a box of tissues. This compelling story grabs from the first page and helps you to understand what real loneliness and rejection feel like. More importantly it puts into perspective the most important things in life, such as a relationship with God. This is a splendid example of how the hand of God can...
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew "As both an adoptee and president of Jewel Among Jewels Adoption Network, author Sherrie Eldridge brings an original approach to the topic of adoption. In an attempt to inform adoptive parents of the unique issues adoptees face, she discusses adoptee anger, mourning, and shame and adoption acknowledgment while using case studies to illustrate how parents can better relate to their adopted...
Sharing God's Heart for Orphans with your Kids Are you looking for helpful tools in sharing with your kids about God's heart for orphans? Then look no further! This site has some great resources:
http://www.hopefororphanskids.org/hfokids/index.html
| Type: Websource | | Related Organization: Hope for Orphans |
Ukraine Makes Progress in Placing Children in Homes This article shares about Ukraine's successful push for national adoption and fostercare. Learn more about the progress being made in this Eastern European country:
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/51172
The Connecting Link In The Connecting Link: What Parents Need to Bring Healing to Their Children, delivered at the 2009 Tapestry Adoption & Foster Care Conference, Dr. Purvis provides parents with a better understanding of why children from hard places use distancing strategies, and how they can help their children replace those strategies by giving them voice, empowering them to make choices and helping them...
Focusing on the Whole Child Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis talks about the need for parents to focus on every aspect of their child’s wellbeing in order to help them heal and overcome their challenges.
Focusing on the Whole Child from Tapestry on Vimeo.
Children from Hard Places Watch as Dr. Karyn Purvis outlines the common characteristics of children from hard places and offers insight into what these children need most to help them heal and become whole:
Children from Hard Places from Tapestry on Vimeo.
Wisdom and Revelation: Keys to Hope and Healing Join Jenni Means as she shares keys to bringing hope and healing to adopted children. Great session for English speakers to watch, since it is in both English and Russian. This session was filmed at the 2009 Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church.
You can watch the video right on this page, but if you would like to use it in your church or ministry, you can also download...
| Type: 2009 Summit | | Related Organization: CoMission for Children at Risk |
Mass Media - Reformation of the Mentality of a Nation Join Sergey Demidovich as he shares about ways to use media to influence national thinking about adoption and orphans. Sergey Demidovich is the Director of the TV studio TV-Together, as well as the representative for the TV channel TBN Ukraine. He is an adoption advocate and does training for nationals across Russia and Ukraine. This session was filmed at the 2009 Eastern European...
| Type: 2009 Summit | | Related Organization: CoMission for Children at Risk |
How to Start and Run a Training School for Foster Families Watch here as Mikhail Pimenov, the director of the foster care training school "Family" shares how individuals can start up their own training schools for adoptive and foster parents. This session addresses the following themes:
Types of training for potential foster parents
How to start a training school for foster families; training specialists and forming a team.
...
| Type: 2009 Summit | | Related Organization: CoMission for Children at Risk |
Types of Family Care; Adoption, Foster Care, etc. Join adoption advocates Petr and Tamara Dudnik as they provide answers to frequently asked questions: what is the difference between adoption and foster parenting, does the government support families that take children – and if so, then how exactly, etc.
This session was filmed at the 2009 Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church.
This video is only available in Russian. ...
| Type: 2009 Summit | | Related Organization: CoMission for Children at Risk |
Difficulties in Raising Adopted Children Join adoption advocate Tamara Dudnik as she shares about difficulties in raising adopted children, and how to overcome those difficulties.
Session was filmed at the 2009 Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church.
This video is only available in Russian. Please click the link above the title to view and encourage your Russian-speaking colleagues and friends to check it out as well.
| Type: 2009 Summit | | Related Organization: CoMission for Children at Risk |
How to Practically Help Adoptive and Foster Children Motivation/Filtration/Preparation/Support-- Join Mikhail Kozitsky and Dr. Susan Hillis as they share four steps towards helping adoptve and foster families:
Participants will be able to describe compelling magnitude of orphan problem and sure reward in caring for orphans
Participants will be able to describe profile of families who are likely to be prepared to care for orphans
...
| Type: 2009 Summit | | Related Organization: CoMission for Children at Risk |
The Magnitude of the Orphan Problem Dr. Susan Hillis of the CDC shares the most up-to-date government statistics on the magnitude of the orphan problem, as well as offers hope for potential solutions. Video footage from the 2009 Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church.
This video is only available in Russian. Please click the link above the title to view and encourage your Russian-speaking colleagues and...
| Type: 2009 Summit | | Related Organization: CoMission for Children at Risk |
Strategy for Church-Government Collaboration Nikolai Kuleba shares about key strategies for church/government collaboration at the 2009 Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church. Mr. Kuleba is the head of child and family services for the city of Kiev.
This video is only available in Russian. Please click the link above the title to view and encourage your Russian-speaking colleagues and friends to check it out as well.
| Type: 2009 Summit | | Related Organization: CoMission for Children at Risk |
Keys to Healing for Children Peter Kravchuk speaks at the 2009 Eastern European Summit on Orphans and the Church. Peter is the father of 21 adopted children, as well as a board member of Light of Love, an NGO that provides training for adoptive and foster families.
This video is only available in Russian. Please click the link above the title to view and encourage your Russian-speaking colleagues and friends to...
| Type: 2009 Summit | | Related Organization: CoMission for Children at Risk |
The Cry of the Orphan What is the church going to do about the world's 143 million orphans? This broadcast features speakers Kay Warren, Dennis Rainey, Paul Pennington, Benedict and Kathleen Schwartz, and Bob Coy. Hear their passionate pleas for action on the issue of suffering orphans, their call to Christians for justice, and their biblical model of how compassionate activism works—straight from the...
House Parents Needed in Vladivostok Hope For Life Home is looking for a Russian-speaking couple to be house parents in a home in Vladivostok for 8 orphan children. The house is set up to hold 8 kids and a set of house parents in the upstairs and 8 kids and a set of house parents in the downstairs. The upstairs has house parents and 7 kids. They are currently remodeling the downstairs and praying for a set of house...
Aggressive-Defiant Child: a tutorial for Teachers and Foster Parents Do parents, or teachers always like their child’s behaviour? Few kids are the model of perfection ( I haven’t met any yet, but there may be one or two!) and kids do things that disappoint or displease us. Sometimes they can behave in ways that really annoy us; the angry, defiant child is a good example. How do you change an angry, aggressive child into a cooperative child?
Firstly,...
List of Books on Adoption and Foster Care This site offers a good list of books on adoption, attachment issues, parenting adopted children, and children development.
Attach-- Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children Many children throughout the world do not benefit from adequate parenting during their early years. Their foundation for healthy development is damaged so they have difficulty in forming loving, lasting, intimate relationships. This condition, known as attachment disorder, can be triggered by abuse, neglect, abandonment, separation from birth parents, birth trauma, maternal depression, chronic...
Hope Exists: Exploring Abuse and Its Effects: A Handbook for Young People If you are interested please contact me through the contact information below and I will be able to provide you ahead of time with details as of how we can make this resource available to you.
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| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Arts for Life International Inc. |
New Life Radio - Moscow New Life Radio Satellite Network - Moscow, provides Christian radio programming throughout Russia, the former Soviet Union, Europe, and Israel, using direct to home satellite radio channels on HOTBIRD and ABS satellites: Internet radio to the Russian-speaking world at (www.NLRadio.net) and FM radio stations. NLR began as Russia's first Christian FM radio station (1996), and...
| Type: Audio | | Related Organization: New Life Radio-Moscow |
"Staying Safe" Curriculum in Russian Staying Safe is a training curriculum designed to help leaders equip small groups of children (ages 6-14) to stay safe from potential sexual abuse and sexual assault, with lessons on Self Esteem, Personal Safety, Saying No!, and Being Safe. It was written to be used in orphanages or shelters for street children, but can be used in other settings for foster families or families in...
| Type: Training | | Related Organization: Arts for Life International Inc. |
Reaching Children in Need This book is valuable reading for anyone concerned about children at risk worldwide. In Reaching Children in Need, the founder and International Director of Viva Network, Patrick McDonald, tells the story of how Viva Network began. He introduces the issues facing children at risk, the Christian response to these huge challenges, and the vision for networking to enhance and mobilize action for...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
The Five Love Languages of Children Loving our children isn't always enough. Learning to speak their love language communicates your love in ways they'll understand right from the start. Unconditional love is something all children can understand. Gary Chapman's book, The Five Love Languages of Children can help you make your child feel secure, loved and more willing and open to interact with you and your family.
This resource can...
Children Demand a Verdict Children need clear and direct answers to their questions about God, the Bible, sin, death, etc. Directed to children ages 7-11 this question and answer book by Josh McDowell tackles 77 tough issues with clarity and relevance, questions such as: Why did God make people? How do we know Jesus was God? How could God write a book? Is the Bible always right? Are parts of the Bible make believe? Why did...
Red Letters: Living a Faith that Bleeds In many Bibles, Christ's words are set apart with a red font. It should be obvious, but this distinction helps remind us that when God becomes Man and that Man speaks it's probably something we cannot afford to miss.So why doesn't the church take these "red letters" to heart? Why aren't we doing more to be Christ's hands and feet to the poor, the disenfranchised, the weary, the ill, the...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Children's HopeChest |
Celebrating Children Full of cutting-edge, practical information, this is a comprehensive reference book written by over 50 contributors from all around the world. Celebrating Children draws on the experience of both government- funded programs and small, sustainable community- based initiatives to address concerns of readers such as a holistic mission to children and the development, evaluation, and monitoring of...
Aid at the Beginning and End of Life: Russia's Baptist Medical Personnel Have High Hopes M o s c o w – Abortion was the prominent form of contraception in the former Soviet Union. One therefore finds older women in Russia who have had as many as 20 abortions. Russian Baptists want to do something about this on a number of levels, for the issue involves more than simply convincing a pregnant woman that she should give birth to her child. Their programme combating abortion is...
The Five Love Languages of Teenagers Believe it or not, it's possible to make teenagers feel loved without embarrassing them in front of their friends. Dr. Gary Chapman will help you connect with them emotionally, on their terms. There's never been a more important time to tell them you love them, and no tool will be as effective as their love languages.
This resource can be purchased in English from any major book retailer and can...
Orphanages Stunt Growth, Families are Better The following is an excerpt from an article written by St. Louis (Reuters) By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent."Children raised in orphanages are stunted physically, emotionally and intellectually but good foster care can help orphans start to grow again, researchers said on Friday. An experiment in which foster homes were set up in Romania showed that children taken out of the...
103 Questions Children Ask About Right from Wrong This book by Dave Veerman focuses on questions actual kids have asked about right and wrong. Fun cartoons help illustrate the questions, while simple answers, Bible verses, and related questions assist children ages 4-8 to understand each entry.To purchase this resource, please go to GLINT's online bookstore, search the title and scroll down to select the language of your choice.
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Gospel Literature International (GLINT) |
I Want to Enjoy My Children If you didn’t plan for them -- or even if you did, having kids may threaten to spoil the fun of marriage. This book shows how to make parenting a fascinating, pleasant journey, wherever it may leadTo purchase this resource, please go to GLINT's online bookstore, search the title and scroll down to select the language of your choice.
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Gospel Literature International (GLINT) |
Stomping Out the Darkness The powerful message of the best-selling book, "Victory Over Darkness" written especially for young people. Provides youth with the keys to their identities, worth and acceptance as children of God. To purchase this resource, please go to GLINT's online bookstore, search the title and scroll down to select the language of your choice.
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Gospel Literature International (GLINT) |
What the Bible is All About Young Explorers The classic Bible handbook has been revised and updated to make the Word of God even more accessible to children. To purchase this resource, please go to GLINT's online bookstore, search the title and scroll down to select the language of your choice.
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Gospel Literature International (GLINT) |
Heaven Help Me Raise These Children! Janey DeMeo's parenting book, Heaven Help Me Raise These Children, is available from CarePoint Ministries.Heaven Help Me provides biblical direction for practical parenting issues, and especially works as a 12-week small group study, although it can also be read individually.Please tell your church about it and see if they'd be interested in ordering some for a group study.Contact Janey for more...
| Type: Book | | Related Organization: Orphans First |
Abandonment Prevention Programs During the past five years, successful programs to prevent the abandonment of newborns in birthing centers have sprung up in several regions of Russia, including Sverdlovsk region (“Aistenok”), St. Petersburg (“From Despair to Hope”), Khabarovsk (programs in City Hospital #11 and Children’s Hospital #9), and Gatchina (organized by “Warm Home” and other...
Modernizing Child Welfare in Russia with Early Intervention With funding from the United States Agency for International Development, Firefly developed a three-year intensive training that combines research, coursework and supervision to instill modern practices within the Russian professional community. At the same time, government officials receive briefings so they will align government funding and regulations to support newly trained providers.To read...
The Sacred Bath: An American Teen's Story of Modern Day Slavery Author Theresa Flores shares her story of trafficking and slavery while living in an upper-middle class suburb of Detroit Michigan. At fifteen years of age, she was drugged, raped and tortured for two long years. Kept in bondage, forced to pay back an impossible debt. All the while living at home, attempting to keep family safe and attending school during the day along side of her abusers. Only to...
Moldovan Children Struggle to Cope with their Parents' Economic Migration As parents leave their children in the care of relatives or neighbors, the children struggle to adapt to life without their parents. "The ones who suffer most, with or without money, are the children,” says UNICEF Project Officer for Child Rights Radu Danii. “Though many of them have better toys and clothes because their parents are working abroad, consumer goods cannot...
Statistics for Children in Crisis Worldwide- Abandonment Other children have run away from abusive families, or have been abandonedby parents who cannot cope with bringing them up. In Romania, at least 9,000babies are abandoned at hospitals every year .
| Type: Statistic | | Related Organization: Viva Network |
Sport, Recreation and Play This UNICEF report states, "Through sport, recreation and play, children and adolescents learn to exercise judgement and think critically while finding solutions to problems. They promote the spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play, teaching teamwork, self-discipline, trust, respect for others, leadership and coping skills. Essential to ensuring that children develop into responsible...
The Moldovan Orthodox Church Gets Actively Involved in UNICEF Social Campaigns “We want these resources to help the Church accomplish the important mission it has in each community: the one of supporting families in need, helping and protecting children at risk, and promoting the family as the best environment to bring up and educate children,” - UNICEF Representative Ray Virgilio Torres
Innocenti Social Monitor 2006 The Innocenti Social Monitor 2006 provides practical examples of ways in which children can be given distinct attention and visibility in the analysis of poverty and in policy priorities, while also stressing that data collection has to be improved and made more accessible in order to allow the impact of policies on children to be effectively assessed and addressed.Scroll down the page at this...
Romani Children in South East Europe This UNICEF report details the challenges facing Romani children in South East Europe and poses recommendations to help end discrimination and secure the rights of all children.
Foster Care Roundtable Round Table Discussion on Foster Care family support programsAn important aspect of these programs is the formation by foster parents of support groups. Such groups have been meeting for almost two years in the Volgograd region and play a central role in their overall efforts to prevent orphanhood. Features of the Volgograd model· Parents and children work together with other civic...
Ending Child Abandonment in Romania This article highlights the joint effort of UNICEF and local child protection agencies in Romania to break strong cultural and rooted patterns that encourage child abandonment.
Breaking the Cycle of Child Abandonment in Tbilisi, Georgia This UNICEF article highlights the success of Mother and Infant Shelters in helping mothers in need keep their children. The shelters are funded by UNICEF in partnership with World Vision and help keep families intact.
