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Personal Stories

They Are In It Together
by Barbara Brown, FCARC
July, 2010

A Grandmother's Gracious Love
by Mike Heath, FCARC
June, 2010

Digital Stories from the Field. Over the last decade, the inclusion of “family voice” has become an integral part of child welfare practice. The National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections staff have created this website to house many of these stories. Each story is accompanied by a written introduction and provides additional web-based resources for the viewer.

Woman Advocates for Foster Care from Experience
An Eau Claire Leader Telegram article about Greta Anderson
Posted with permission from Eau Claire Leader Telegram
, March 2010

An Open Letter to Foster Parents (About Culture)
by a teenager from Dane County
Posted March, 2010

A Voice From Within:
Growing Up as a Birth Child in a Foster and Adoptive Home

by Mike Heath, FCARC,
December, 2009

Hard Work! Plus A Little Luck.
by Barbara Brown, FCARC,
December, 2009

Bridging Troubled Waters
by Barbara Brown, FCARC
July, 2009

Foster Care Month 2009: Booklet of Appreciation Statements
May, 2009

A Cop With a Different Beat
by Susan Schwab, FCARC
June, 2009

Perfect Blend: Single Mom Creates Family Harmony with Adopted, Foster Children
by Terri Dougherty, Women Magazine. (Linked with permission from Women Magazine)
May, 2009

Love, poem by Shannon, 15

A Home for Teen Boys,
by Barbara Brown, FCARC
September, 2008

A Family Created in Many Ways: Parents and Four Children Who Became Family Through Adoption, Fostering, and Birth
by Barbara Brown, FCARC
September, 2008

If A Star Came Down and Kissed Your Nose, poem by a 9-year-old boy and his mom

Brandy's Story: Transitioning to Independent Living
May, 2008

Voices of Youth: Stories, Artwork and Poems of Current and Former Youth in Care
(booklet created for foster care month, 2008)

Extraordinary Women,
by Barbara Brown, FCARC
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A Love So Much Deeper than the Ocean: An Adoption Story,
by Mike Heath, FCARC


If you have any feedback on any of our stories, or would like to suggest an idea for a story, please contact us.

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