"The essential guide to parenting adopted and foster kids--learn to create felt safety, heal attachment trauma, and navigate challenging behaviors and triggers"--

Tori grew up in the foster care system, a bi-racial child in a confusing and volatile world. Growing up with a mentally ill mother and living in twelve different foster homes, nothing was in her favor. And yet, even with a minuscule chance of graduating college and a great risk of being homeless, jobless, and on drugs, Tori overcame every negative stereotype and assumption that attacked her identity. However, Tori will tell you she did not overcome....

Outlines the Wilder case which challenged delegation of responsibility for care of abused and neglected children to private agencies. Most New York agencies were Catholic or Jewish and were permitted by law to give preference to children of their own faith, condemning the mostly Protestant African american children who dominated the system to overcrowded, underfunded state institutions.

In a forgotten corner of Wales, a young girl languishes in a home for troubled children. Abandoned by her parents because of her violent streak, Jessie-at the age of ten-is at risk of becoming just another lost soul in the foster system. Precocious and bold, Jessie is convinced she is possessed by the devil and utterly unprepared for the arrival of therapist Torey Hayden. Armed with patience, compassion, and unconditional love, Hayden begins working...

This guide to openness, communication, and truthfulness in adopter-adoptee relationships is designed to meet the practical and informational needs of adoptive parents, foster parents, adoption professionals, mental health professionals, and school teachers and counselors who have adopted or foster children.