Jan 11, 2016
ITAO is trying something new with the Book Club this year by changing from an on-line forum to meeting in person! We will talk about our current book using questions from the DHS Alternative Verification Form, making it easy to fill in the DHS form to receive the 5.25...
Oct 5, 2014
ITAO’s virtual Book Club was developed for resource, adoptive, guardianship, permanency and kinship families to provide support and at the same time add to their expertise related to the needs of the children and youth in their home. We finished our first book,...
Oct 1, 2014
We’ve assembled a list of some of the best books ever written about parenting, foster care and adoption and given you a link to purchase them online by clicking through from the list below. When you do, ITAO receives a portion of the proceeds from that sale and...
Nov 18, 2013
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”0544103440″ desc=”0″] Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care, looking into these questions and...
May 17, 2013
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”0061246603″ desc=”0″] Born as a ward of the state of Maine, the child of an unmarried Yankee blueblood mother and an unknown black father, Victoria Rowell beat the odds. The Women Who Raised Me is the remarkable story of...
Nov 2, 2012
[AMAZONPRODUCTS asin=”0547564651″ desc=”0″] Why do some children succeed while others fail?The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool...
