Post-Permanency Newsletter

Resiliency can be taught. No matter how much trauma your children experienced, as parents, you have the power to teach your kids how to build resilience. Additionally you can teach them concrete skills and strategies to help them thrive in their life’s journey.

Resiliency is the ability to bounce back after hard things: failure, trauma, adversity, or any challenge. It is the process of managing different types of stress and then recovering.

Rachel Kuhr,the Director of Adoption and Foster Care at JFS, reviews Building The Bonds of Attachment. This is the formative and foundational text for adopted families regarding attachment. Rachel’s regularly scheduled Dear Director column will return next month.

Books can help children cope with tough experiences, their hard feelings, and help with your connection to them. A Terrible Thing Happened provides an easy to relate to character who lives through trauma. This book will be a welcome tool for families to help their children heal.

Not Exactly As Planned, is a masterpiece about adoption, FASD, parenting, and many related and nuanced themes. It is a must read for any parent who is raising an adopted child, one with FASD, or really any struggles.