‘Parent Resources’ Articles
Healing Emotions with Art and Recreation Together (H.E.A.R.T.)
H.E.A.R.T. works with children and adolescents in small, supportive groups where members learn how to identify their feelings, come to understand that they are not alone in their struggles, and develop skills in supporting one another. To help facilitate this process, H.E.A.R.T. utilizes mediums that children can easily relate to such as art, yoga, horseback [...]
Helping Children with Homework and Study Habits
Tips to make homework a more productive time.
2011 Federal Tax Benefits
Unique tax rules affect resource, foster, kinship care, and adoptive families. Click here to get to a booklet that explains basic rules and offers tips on ways that families can legally claim the maximum tax benefits available to them.
A New Tool to Help Families Keep Children Healthy
The University of Hawaii-Manoa John A. Burns School of Medicine, Hawaii Initiative for Childhood Obesity Research and Education, and several local health care organizations have launched a campaign called the “Hawaii 5-2-1-0 Let’s Go Initiative” to tackle childhood obesity.
Act 208-Relating to Cargiver Consent
One of the most important bills to pass the 2005 legislative session was SB 40, SD1, HD1, which was signed into law as Act 208. Why is this bill so important? Because it ensures that health care will be available and accessible for children under the care of caregivers, who are, very often, grandparents.
Adoptee Access to Original Birth Certificate
This new online documentary speaks to the issues related to adoptee access to their original birth certificates. It is “Vital Records,” a 20 minute film by Jean Strauss, and can be found at http://web.mac.com/fbeavers/iWeb/Access%202006/Movie.html. In the voices of birth parents, adoptive parents, adoptees, and their allies we hear rebutted all of the arguments presented against access. [...]
Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted from Foster Care
This factsheet is prepared by the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse. It provides detailed, easy-to-read information about what adoption assistance is, what the eligibity criteria are, and how to arrange for adoption assistance.
Adoption Dissolution
One of the saddest – and most controversial – occurrences in the world of adoption is when adoptive parents feel compelled to disrupt or dissolve an adoption.
Adoption Subsidy Eight Years After Adoption
A personal account of one family’s experience in applying for Adoption Subsidy retroactively.
Adoption Subsidy Overview
Provides overview of federal adoption subsidy program.
