ATTACH, the Association for Treatment and Training in the Attachment of Children, is an international coalition of professionals and families dedicated to helping those with attachment difficulties ...
"There must be more to the Christian life than this--more than church each Sunday and waving to my neighbors and giving some clothes to Goodwill when I go through my closet each spring."
These ...
Why would someone risk his safety, destroy his schedule, and become dirty and bloody to help a needy person of another race and social class? And why would Jesus tell us "Go and do likewise"? Like ...
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. ...
The "Field Guide to Child Welfare" is a comprehensive, four-volume resource for child welfare workers and supervisors to use in their everyday practice. The guide describes basic theory, practical ...
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 ...
Scripture has much to say about about orphans. Here's a list of verses that mention the fatherless and orphan.
Exodus 22:22-24
Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan. If you ...
How to Settle in and Thrive as a New Adoptive Family
Your long awaited international arrival has happened and your new family is formed. Hooray! After the excitement has worn off, reality of this ...
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 ...
• An estimated 130 million of the world's 15- to 24- year-olds cannot read or write.
• There are 781 million illiterate adults worldwide, and 64 percent of them are women.
• Nearly 115 ...
Give your Russian colleagues and friends the support they need to care for orphans well! If you or your Russian-speaking partners are ministering to children at risk, the Orphan Care Resource ...
Several common school assignments can make foster and adoptive children feel left out, uncomfortable, sad, and hurt. Projects like the ‘Family Tree’, ‘Bring-a-Baby Picture’ and ‘Trace Your Genetic ...
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 ...
If you missed the Christian Alliance for Orphan's webinar on how to start and grow a church-based orphan ministry, you can go back and listen to it here:
Starting and Growing a Church-Based Orphan ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
