Find Information and Training
There is no shortage of information you receive as a parent or a caregiver. How do you know which one is best?
iCARE4 Adopted and Foster Families is the “go to” hub for parents, schools and mental health professionals to find evidence-based, foundational training, support and resources on attachment trauma and best practices.
Being a parent or caregiver of an adopted, foster or kinship child can be challenging at times.
Knowing where to turn to for resources shouldn’t be.
You can find links to articles, videos and training opportunities that relate to you and your family.
Continue to check back as we often add new ones.
PARENT and CAREGIVER RESOURCES
Articles and Information
Books
More will be added in future. If you have a book topic or request, reach out and we can share lists not loaded yet.
Videos
- Why is mental health training for schools important? (Listen to how an adult adoptee struggled in high school.)
- Why Won’t My Child Act His Age
- How you Can Change the Brain – Dan Siegel
The Purpose of the Teenage Brain – Dan Siegel
Support Groups
- Acceptance Commitment Therapy/Training (ACT): An online group for Parents and Caregivers (Angela Geddes)
- Sequoia Families
Sequoia Families is a non-denominational adoptive family support community that serves all domestic and international adoptive families, at all stages of the adoption experience in the northern Chicagoland and Illinois area. (We do have a virtual option for those not in the Northern Illinois area)
Sequoia Family parents meet in person (and virtually via link) the first Wednesday of every month at Christ Church, Lake Forest, 100 Waukegan Rd., from 6:30-8pm and virtually by Google Meets on the third Wednesday of every month 6:30-7:30pm.
A group for teens needing support facilitated by teens. This is not a group to replace therapy, but rather another source of community support. Meets virtually every Monday evening.