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These anthologies compile our best stories along with discussion guides and journal reflection worksheets for each story.

Healing Ourselves, Healing Our Children
Stories about parenting by parents affected by the child welfare system
#CW-HIST, 86 pp. $12.00
10 stories and worksheets
Parents who grew up with chaos, trauma, or family separation need guidance to build safe, nurturing homes. Parents will feel capable of setting routines, improving communication, and using positive discipline when they read these stories by their peers..

It Won't Happen Again
Stories about reunification by parents affected by the child welfare system
#CW-REUN, 82 pp. $12.00
Nine stories and worksheets
When children act out after reunification, parents often feel overwhelmed. Help parents understand children’s fear and anger and learn healthy responses that other parents have used to repair relationships with their children.

Building a Bridge
Stories about building collaboration between parents and foster parents
#CW-BRD, 130 pp. $18.95
20 stories by parents, foster parents, and teens + 14 worksheets
Positive relationships between parents and foster parents help children feel more secure in care and adjust more easily after reunification. Ideal for staff and foster parent training.

A Knock on the Door focuses on accessing family support services, handling an investigation, visiting and reunification.

FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES
'It's OK to Need Support'
A parent-to-parent guide to family support services
16 pp. FREE
21 stories by parents about getting the help they needed to strengthen their families. If you need help keeping your children safe or resolving family conflicts, the stories in this booklet will help you find the support you need and take steps to protect your children and yourself.

FOSTER CARE
One Step at a Time
A parent-to-parent guide to the child welfare system
24 pp. FREE
26 stories by parents about how to take steps to reunify with children in foster care. If your children have been removed, the stories in this booklet will take you step by step through finding peer support, connecting with your children during visits, working with your lawyer, establishing a positive relationship with your child's foster parent, strengthening your parenting skills, learning about fathers' rights, overcoming addiction and domestic violence, and reunifying with your children.

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It's OK to Need Support and One Step at a Time were designed for distribution at New York City Initial Child Safety Conferences. Parent community representatives who guide parents at these conferences - where the decision is made whether to place a child in foster care - selected these Rise stories to support parents in crisis.

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