For Everyone: Books
June 2023
Kinship
The rapid growth of kinship care has taught many child welfare agencies off guard. This book provides basic information to kinship caregivers and those who provide services to the families. Clinical issues are explored along with many policy and program recommendations.
Author: Dr. Joseph Crumbley and Robert L. Little
Publisher: Child Welfare League of America
June 2023
Guided Growth
One of the greatest challenges teachers and caregivers face is the increase in the number of children who do not respond to traditional instruction and classroom management techniques. Many of the children who present were prenatally exposed to alcohol and illicit drugs. To complicate matters, many – if not most – of these children suffered significant emotional and social trauma early in their lives. In the past twenty years, we have learned about these children and the chaotic lives many of them face. The Guided Growth relies on a key lesson learned from neuroscience: “If we are to influence the hearts and behaviors of others, we must do so by using the tools of caring and compassion; in this way we can remain open to the needs of those around us who are suffering from the deepest hurts.”
Author: MD Ira J. Chasnoff and PhD Ronald J. Powell
Publisher: NTI Upstream, Oct 1, 2020
May 2023
Helping Build Empathy
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is sharing this resource to assist our young ones in learning more about emotions and the skill of empathy.
April 2023
The Kissing Hand
This encouraging book has become a children's classic and has touched the lives of many families, especially at times of separation, such as starting school, entering daycare, or going to camp or removal from home. It is widely used by kindergarten teachers on the first day of school. This is a support for many of the children experiencing Relocation Stress Syndrome (RSS).
Author: Audrey Penn
Publisher: Tanglewood 1993
Everything Changes: Help for Families of Newly Recovering Addicts
This is a compassionate, user-friendly handbook for family and friends piloting the many challenges that come with a loved one's new-found sobriety and recovery journey. Everything Changes eases fears and uncertainty by teaching families of newly recovering addicts how to navigate the stressful early months of recovery. She outlines both the physical and psychological changes that the recovery journey contains. She offers practical tools to help family members and friends.
Author: Beverly Conyers
Publisher: Hazelden April 2009
November 2022
Supporting Families
The 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers was created to support family caregivers of all ages, from youth to grandparents, and regardless of where they live or what caregiving looks like for them and their loved ones.
The strategy was developed jointly by the advisory councils created by the RAISE Family Caregiving Act and the Supporting Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Act, with extensive input from the public, including family caregivers and the people they support. It will be updated in response to public comments and will evolve with the caregiving landscape. Take a look and comment when appropriate.
You will find the document at: 2022 National Strategy to Support Family Caregivers | ACL Administration for Community Living.
November 2022
Resources for Learning
Celebrate Reading books by Native authors is one great way to celebrate Native American and Alaska Native Heritage Month. Look for some of these titles at your library or local bookstore.
Check out: Explore how children learn through storytelling traditions (pbs.org).
November 2022
Alateen – Hope for Children of Alcoholics
“If no one knows us as we really are, we run the risk of becoming victims of our own self-hatred. If we can be loved by somebody who sees us as we are, we can then begin to accept ourselves. Others rarely think we’re as bad as we do.”
If you live with issues related to substance use in your environment, check out the resources of Alateen or Al-anon. Take care of yourself.
http://www.al-anon.alateen.org/
August 2022
The Addiction Monster: A Childrens Guide to Understanding the Dynamics of Drugs and Alcohol
THE ADDICTION MONSTER is a powerful tool for children 5 years and older that will help them understand the dynamics of chemical dependency. The book is written as a form of Narrative Therapy, which uses the tool of externalizing the problem and allows the child to see that the problem of chemical dependency is a separate entity (the Monster) from the mother.
Janet Amptman (Author), David Amptman (Illustrator) - March 22, 2014
Create Space Independent Publishing Platform
May 2022
Parenting Through Your Adult Child's Addiction: Making Sense of Treatment, Aftercare, and Recovery Recommendations
No parent imagines their tiny infant growing up to have an addiction. If you are worried your son or daughter’s use of drugs or alcohol has reached a sufficient level of concern, you may be exploring or have already admitted your adult child to treatment. As a parent you are hard-wired to love, provide, protect, nurture, and rescue your young, just like all other creatures. Yet here you are, trying to learn what you can do to support your loved one without revealing the resentments, doubts, fears, and expectations you harbor. Learn more about this journey and the tools for taking care of yourself through this experience.
Ginny H. Mills - October 10, 2019
Publisher: Year of the Book Press
May 2022
The Gambling Addiction Recovery Book: Working the Twelve of Steps of Gamblers Anonymous & Steps for Meetings
Much of the text is based on the collective experience and wisdom of Gamblers Anonymous members as they have expressed themselves at meetings, conferences and private
conversations.
Publisher: G.A. Publishing, March 31, 2020
April 2022
Understanding Addiction and Recovery Through a Child's Eye
Jerry Moe, an addictions professional and National Director of Children’s Programs at the Betty Ford Center, offers rich and wide-reaching collection of poignant stories and humorous anecdotes about children and teens who are navigating their way through the healing process. This provides a way for young people to know they are not alone and receive support on their journey.
Jerry Moe, December 2007
Publisher: Health Communications
March 2022
It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up with Addiction as Youngsters, Adolescents, and Adults
This is Claudia Black's bestselling classic, revised, on the experience of being raised in an addictive household. While continuing to recognize alcohol as the primary addiction within families, this revised edition of It Will Never Happen to Me, extends concepts to include addictive disorders involving other drugs, money, food, sex, and work.
Claudia Black PhD– December 22, 2020
Publisher: Central Recovery Press
February 2022
"Dear David: Dealing with My Son’s Addiction One Letter at a time"
If you are a parent impacted by the substance use of your child, this is a good read for you. Martha Wegner shares her journey of recovery as a parent through her blog letters she wrote to her son David. The 216 pages takes you on her journey as she and her son strive to become healthy.
Martha Wegner - 2019
Publisher: Calumet Editions
January 2022
Today more grandparents in Illinois are raising their grandkids, creating "grandfamilies" and the number is going up. In Illinois, the most identified reason is substance use disorder of the parent. You may be one of these grandparents. It is a responsibility many grandparents never expected! If you have assumed this role, you probably have some questions.
- How will I find the energy for this? - What if I "blow it?" - How will I budget this? - How do I handle my sadness and loss of friends? Each day, you look for ways to make life easier.
Check out the following: SO, YOU'RE RAISING YOUR GRANDKIDS! by Harriett Hodgson (2018)
Publisher: WriteLife Publishing