Tag Archives: families

Disability Pride Month

These books celebrate diversity and encourage learning. Explore stories about kids with disabilities of all kinds for Disability Pride Month in July. Families will discover new perspectives, foster acceptance and support positive views of self with readers in every age group. Board Books “Can Bears Ski?” by Raymond Antrobus and …

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Advocate for Adoption Competency

Heart in Hands adoption competency

  Family relationships can be complicated. Families that come together through foster care, guardianship and adoption often experience added layers of complexity. One constant for all these families is the experience of loss. For some children and their parents and caregivers, these losses loom large, creating significant challenges. Families often …

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Safety Zone

The air is getting cooler, and the holidays are just around the corner. If you are anything like me, you cannot wait to put a few logs on the fire and enjoy lots of time celebrating with family and friends. However, before we jump into the cheer and excitement, it …

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Family Ties

In late 1989, Jamie Roeder’s father won a contest at a fall fundraiser for The Children’s Guild. The prize: Roeder and her sister were photographed for the January 1990 cover of Baltimore’s Child. Roeder recalls a photographer coming to their Catonsville home and the two girls tossing confetti for the …

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