From Foster Care to Fabulous

From Foster Care to Fabulous
Author: Capri C. Cruz
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2012-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1468552538

From the creator of the philosophy foster children are fabulous champions, author and previous foster child herself, Capri Cruz, shows us how to overcome childhood trauma by implementing the effective healing strategies shes used throughout her life of turmoil, which ultimately catapulted her voyage From Foster Care to Fabulous. As an authority in the psychology of emotional healing, she presents techniques to initiate profound subconscious and spiritual transformation, which include perception realignment, inner-mind awakening, and the art of surrendering. Although designed with the foster child in mind, this book is a must read for all as it addresses two fundamental threads encompassing humanity: the human experience and the interpretation of that experience. The effects of negative childhood experiences often linger with lasting toxicity, which confines the mind to constricted and often unforgiving ideals birthed thereafter. Capri shows us that no longer has to be true! Its time to let the inner healing begin as she peels back the layers to reveal secrets for reprocessing damaging experiences. The simplicity of it is astonishing. By disassembling damaging experiences from childhood abuse to adulthood divorce, then analyzing them through the lens of wisdom revealed within these pages, and reconstructing subsequent perceptions, dynamic change in the trajectory of your life will be imminent. Tie this in with knowledge of deliberate creation and the master piece called your future becomes limitless as pain gets transformed to freedom! Time waits for no one! The sand in the hour glass of life continues to slip away, whether we are mindful of it or not. Thus, let urgency lead the way as you journey into her world for a fresh look at what IS possible. I assure you, the quality of your life depends on it! The healing work within is the seed for the guaranteed reward without.

From Foster to Fabulous

From Foster to Fabulous
Author: Helen Ramaglia
Publisher: Inspiring Voices
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2012-08-30
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1462402941

As a former foster child, I know how it feels to be alone, to feel lost, to feel hopeless, and to feel helpless. I also know you can make a difference in the life of a foster child. Ive been there. While my story is not unique, I want to share it in order to help the caring people of America walk in the shoes of a child who experiences physical, mental, and emotional abuse; is removed from everything she knows; is provided a roof over her head by the State and strangers; and then is thrust into adulthood totally unprepared but later succeeds. I want them to see, touch, and feel what the abused/foster child suffers and why they are who they are. I want them to see the major gaps in the childs life skills and social abilities and why they exist. We must walk in the childs shoes in order to understand them. Only then will we be able to truly fill the enormous amount of needs they have and feel confident in adopting, fostering, and working with foster children. We must fully understand the heart and life of a foster child before we can effectively foster, adopt, or work with this vulnerable population of extraordinary children. I invite you to walk with me, and learn how it truly feels to grow up as nobodys child. A little girl destined to failure, confined by abuse, and traumatized by foster care is inspired by faith to succeed.

Fostering Love

Fostering Love
Author: Dr. John DeGarmo
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 151271450X

Children suffering from abuse. Neglect. Malnutrition. Even drug-related problems passed on from a mothers addiction. Children rejected by those who were to love them most, their parents. When placed into a foster home, many of these children carry with them the physical and emotional scars that prevent them from accepting the love of another. This journey as a foster parent is the most difficult thing John DeGarmo has done. Through the sleepless nights with drug-addicted babies, the battles with angry teens, and the tears from such tremendous sadness, John DeGarmo learns that to follow Gods call in his life means to take up His cross in his own home. Fostering Love: One Foster Parents Journey is the true-life account of his experience as a foster parent, along with his wife and their own three children, as he followed Gods call to take foster children into his home. This is a story of heartbreak, sadness, and ultimately love as he came to find God in the tears and smiles of many foster children.

Fabulous Terrible

Fabulous Terrible
Author: Sophie Talbot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781933390765

An orphan girl from Hatterly, South Carolina is accepted into the most exclusive and expensive all-girl boarding school, Trumball Woodhouse.

Bitterroot

Bitterroot
Author: Susan Devan Harness
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2020-03-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1496219570

2019 High Plains Book Award (Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer categories) 2021 Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West. When Harness was fifteen years old, she questioned her adoptive father about her “real” parents. He replied that they had died in a car accident not long after she was born—except they hadn’t, as Harness would learn in a conversation with a social worker a few years later. Harness’s search for answers revolved around her need to ascertain why she was the target of racist remarks and why she seemed always to be on the outside looking in. New questions followed her through college and into her twenties when she started her own family. Meeting her biological family in her early thirties generated even more questions. In her forties Harness decided to get serious about finding answers when, conducting oral histories, she talked with other transracial adoptees. In her fifties she realized that the concept of “home” she had attributed to the reservation existed only in her imagination. Making sense of her family, the American Indian history of assimilation, and the very real—but culturally constructed—concept of race helped Harness answer the often puzzling questions of stereotypes, a sense of nonbelonging, the meaning of family, and the importance of forgiveness and self-acceptance. In the process Bitterroot also provides a deep and rich context in which to experience life.

Three Pennies

Three Pennies
Author: Melanie Crowder
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2017-05-02
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1481471899

A girl in foster care tries to find her birth mother before she loses her forever in this “tender tale” (School Library Journal, starred review) about last chances and new opportunities. For a kid bouncing from foster home to foster home, The Book of Changes is the perfect companion. That’s why Marin carries three pennies and a pocket-sized I Ching with her everywhere she goes. Yet when everything in her life suddenly starts changing—like landing in a foster home that feels like somewhere she could stay, maybe forever—the pennies don’t have any answers for her. Marin is positive that all the wrongs in her life will be made right if only she can find her birth mother and convince her that they belong together. Marin is close, oh so close—until she gets some unwelcome news and her resolve, like the uneasy earth far beneath the city of San Francisco, is shaken.

Art Workshop for Children

Art Workshop for Children
Author: Barbara Rucci
Publisher: Quarry Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1631593250

Art Workshop for Children is not just another book of straightforward art projects. The book's unique child-led approach provides a framework for cultivating creative thinking and encourages the wonder that comes when children are allowed to freely explore the creative process and their materials. As children work through these open-ended workshops, adults are guided on how to be facilitators who provide questions, encourage deep thinking, and help spark an excitement for discovery. Children explore basic materials and workshops that use minimal supplies, and then gradually add new materials to fill the art cabinets as well as new skills and more complex workshops. Most workshops are suitable to preschool-aged children, and each contains ideas for explorations and new twists to engage older or more experienced artists. Interspersed throughout are sidebar essays that introduce perspectives on mess-making, imperfection, the role of adult, collaborative art, and thoughts on the Reggio Emilia method, a self-guided teaching philosophy. These pieces underscore the value of art-making with children, and support the parent/teacher/care-giver on how to successfully lead, question, and navigate their children through the workshops to result in the fullest experiences.

One Small Boat

One Small Boat
Author: Kathy Harrison
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781585424658

An intimate portrait of America's foster-care system is told through the experiences of a foster parent and an emotionally abandoned girl who, ensconced with the author's biological, adopted, and foster children, began to thrive in her new family environment. 20,000 first printing.

Daddy’s Little Princess

Daddy’s Little Princess
Author: Cathy Glass
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0007569386

The latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. Beth is a sweet-natured child who appears to have been well looked after. But it isn’t long before Cathy begins to have concerns that the relationship between Beth and her father is not as it should be.

Another Good Dog

Another Good Dog
Author: Cara Sue Achterberg
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2018-08-07
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 1681778394

In 2015, Cara Achterberg’s Pennsylvania farm became a haven for Operation Paws for Homes, which rescues dogs from high-kill shelters in the rural south and shuttles them north to foster homes. Nine puppies arrived with less than a day’s notice; a heart-worm positive dog; a deeply traumatized stray pup from Iraq; and countless others who just needed a gentle touch and a warm place to sleep. The stories of these remarkable dogs—including an eighty-pound bloodhound who sang arias for the neighbors—and the joy they bring to Cara and her family (along with a few chewed sofa cushions) fill the pages of this touching and inspiring book.When asked how she can possibly say goodbye to that many lovable pups, Cara says, “If I don’t give this one away, I can’t possibly save another.” Filled with humanity and hope, Another Good Dog will take the reader on a journey of smiles, laughs, and tears—and lead us to wonder how many other good dogs are out there and what we can do to help.