Resources
www.chapinhall.org – website of the Chapin Hall Center for Children, a research institute of the University of Chicago focused on problems facing children. An excellent source of statistics and studies concerning children in foster care, including a number of studies focused on current and former foster children in Wisconsin.
www.CASAnet\library – part of National CASA website for programs and volunteers. Contains many background articles and links on social work, medical and legal issues relevant to child abuse and neglect advocacy by CASA volunteers.
www.AZCASA.org – Arizona CASA statewide website. Features downloadable and online training modules and examinations to test your knowledge of court procedures (some are Arizona-specific), mental illness, substance abuse and family dynamics.
http://dcf.wi.gov/- official webpage for children and youth programs of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families. Links to a broad array of child welfare information and governmental social services for children throughout Wisconsin.
www.casey.org/Resources – website of Casey Family Programs, a national leader in providing and improving foster care. The Tools and Resources section includes myriad studies and publications on foster care reform, offers free online assessments for foster families, and the It’s My Life curriculum to prepare youth to age out of foster care.
www.connectforkids.org – designed to equip child and youth advocates with tools for child advocacy on the local, state and national level, and to help child advocacy organizations reach a broader audience.
www.childadvocacy.com – an international collection of news clippings, articles and postings for professional and volunteer child advocates worldwide.
www.aacap.org – website of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Check the Resources for Families section for user-friendly materials on ADHD, a glossary of psychiatric conditions and their symptoms, updates on psychiatric medications and children, and mental illness statistics for children and youth.
www.futureofchildren.org - a collaboration of Princeton University and the Brookings Institution. Research-based information for use in policy advocacy on children’s issues.
Electronic Learning on National CASA site:
National CASA E-Learning for Continuing Education - If you are a Kids Matter CASA volunteer you will have access to the electronic learning, for more information email us at: adam@kidsmatterinc.org
The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz
Troubled Transplants by Richard J. Delaney
Broken Cord by Michael Dorris
A Child’s Journey Through Placement by Vera Fahlberg, M. D.
The Book of David by Richard Gelles
The Wonder of Boys by Michael Gurian
Somebody Else’s Children by John Huber and Jill Wolfson
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court by Edward Humes
Turmoil to Turning Points by Jerome Kagan
Ghosts From the Nursery: Tracing the Roots of Violence by Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley
The Limits of Hope: An Adoptive Mother’s Story by Ann Kimble Loux
Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
High Risk: Children Without a Conscience by Ken Magid and Carole McKelvey
Turning Stones by Marc Parent
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher
Within Our Reach by Lisbeth B. Schorr
Beyond the Best Interests of the Child by Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud & Albert Solnit
Orphans of the Living by Jennifer Toth
America A psychiatrist (Rosie O'Donnell) works to help a teen who has slipped through the cracks of the foster care system.