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A curated collection of guides, courses, and tools designed to support your parenting and help your family thrive.
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Our resources are designed to equip adoptive and foster parents with practical, trauma-informed tools for connection and healing. Each one offers gentle, research based guidance to help you better understand your child’s behaviors, strengthen emotional safety, and build trust that lasts. Whether you’re navigating big feelings, setting healthy boundaries, or finding new ways to stay connected in hard moments, these resources will support you in parenting with confidence, empathy, and hope.
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5 Key Components of Trauma-Informed Care
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Trauma-informed care is more than a method it’s a mindset. This guide outlines five essential components that help children feel safe, connected, and understood as they heal.
5 Boundaries That Protect Birth Parent Relationships
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Thoughtful boundaries create safety, trust, and connection in open adoption. This guide offers five practical ways to keep your child’s well being at the center while nurturing healthy relationships with birth parents.
How to Know If You’re Experiencing Blocked Care
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Blocked care isn’t failure, it’s your body’s survival response to chronic stress. This guide helps you recognize the symptoms and rebuild emotional connection with compassion.
5 Expectations to Let Go of as an Adoptive Parent
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Unspoken expectations can quietly shape how we parent adopted children. This guide helps adoptive parents release five common beliefs that create pressure, hinder attachment, and block connection.
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Practical Guide Books
Practical Guides are expert designed short guide books created to support adoptive families in key areas of their parenting journey. Each guide is grounded in compassion, lived experience, and practical tools, empowering families to grow, connect, and thrive together.
Adoption After Infertility
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A Practical Guide: Adoption After Infertility is a compassionate, steadying roadmap for individuals and couples navigating the complex shift from fertility treatment to adoption. Blending clinical expertise with deeply personal storytelling, Dr. Anna Koehle guides readers through grief, identity, readiness, and the emotional repair required to move from loss into lifelong love.
Transracial Adoption
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A Practical Guide: Transracial Adoption is a deeply honest, practical roadmap for adoptive and foster parents raising children of a different race. Blending lived experience with clear, age-by-age guidance, Isaac Etter helps parents understand bias, build racial identity, navigate hard conversations, and create a home where transracial adoptees feel seen, heard, and truly valued.
Courses
Our self-paced courses offer practical tools to help you understand behaviors, build emotional safety, and strengthen connection. Each course includes an hour video module, a quick quiz, and a certificate of completion, so you leave confident, equipped, and recognized for your growth.
The Expectation Gap: Setting Realistic Goals for Children from Hard Histories
Just $35.00
In this foundational course April Ficklin helps caregivers understand the “expectation gap” the difference between a child’s chronological age and their stage of emotional, developmental, or brain-based functioning. Participants learn how trauma impacts development, why structure and connection must work together, and how to scaffold skills in a way that reduces shame and increases success.
Thriving in Multicultural Families: Wisdom From an Adoptee and Adoptive Parent
Just $35.00
This powerful conversation between Isaac Etter and his adoptive mom Julie Etter offers an honest look at what it takes to raise children across race, culture, and difference. With vulnerability, humor, and deep reflection, Isaac and Julie share the realities of parenting in a multicultural family from early conversations about identity and belonging to navigating bias, school incidents, grief, and emotional safety at home.
Dysregulated: Why Does My Child Go From 0–60 in Two Seconds?
Just $35.00
In this course, April Ficklin explains the brain science behind dysregulation. Participants learn how trauma shapes brain development, how the nervous system interprets safety, and why some kids move into fight/flight so quickly. This workshop gives parents a clear map for identifying protection mode vs. connection mode, building co-regulation skills, meeting sensory needs, and responding to challenging behaviors without escalating the moment further.
Introduction To:
Adoption, Trauma, and Attachment
Just $35.00
This course offers an in-depth exploration of the complex intersections between adoption, trauma, and attachment, with a focus on how these dynamics impact children and the families who care for them.
Introduction to Transracial Adoption
Just $35.00
This course, Introduction to Transracial Adoption, provides a foundational understanding of what transracial adoption is, explores its historical context, and offers practical considerations for adoptive parents.
Understanding and Supporting Transracial Adoptees and Fosterees
Just $35.00
In this course, transracial adoptee and educator Isaac Etter shares his lived experience growing up as a Black adoptee in a white family. Through personal reflection and practical wisdom, Isaac offers adoptive and foster parents essential tools and insight into how to excel as transracial parents.
Conflict, Resistance, and Defiance Through the Lens of Polyvagal Theory
Just $35.00
This course introduces parents and caregivers to the foundational principles of Polyvagal Theory as a framework for understanding challenging behaviors in children, especially those with trauma histories. Participants will explore how defiance, resistance, and conflict are often rooted in the body's automatic nervous system responses, rather than conscious disobedience.
Winning with Kinks, Curls, and Coils: Confident Hair Care for Transracial Adoptive Parents
Just $35.00
This course is designed for transracial adoptive and foster parents raising Black children. Led by Terria Roushun, this empowering course walks parents through five transformative steps to achieve “Hair Care Relief."
Love & Coils:
From Dry to Nourished
Just $35.00
The Love & Coils Course is a compassionate and expert-led guide for transracial adoptive and foster parents committed to understanding and caring for their Black child’s hair. In this powerful session, cosmetologist and trauma-informed care educator Terria Roushun addresses one of the most common concerns from caregivers: dry hair.
Healthy Boundaries for Teens: A Trauma-Informed Guide to Structure & Trust
Just $35.00
In this course, April Ficklin breaks down how to create developmentally appropriate, trauma-informed boundaries that help teens feel safe, empowered, and connected. Participants learn how to balance nurture and structure, build trust through collaboration, and use boundaries as a tool for growth rather than punishment.
What Should I Do When My Child Lies and Manipulates?
Just $35.00
In this course, April Ficklin breaks down why lying and manipulation show up so frequently in adoptive and foster homes and how parents can respond in ways that build trust instead of fear. Participants learn how trauma shapes a child’s survival strategies, why honesty can feel unsafe, and what it means to parent from connection rather than reactivity.
Parenting Advice On The Go:
The Parenting Different Podcast!
The Parenting Different Podcast is a weekly show for adoptive parents, hosted by Anna Bernacki, Director of Community at Parenting Different. Each episode explores honest conversations about adoption, identity, trauma, and parenting through real stories and expert insight, helping families raise children who feel seen, heard, and valued.
From Overwhelmed to Equipped: April Ficklin’s Parenting Journey
Life as a Bio Sibling: Talia-Rae on Foster Care and Adoption
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