Non-credit learning materials, publications, and books
Family book club: Each month, we read a book about foster care or adoption and have meaningful discussions.
Lending library: Check out our wide variety of books and articles from our library.
Publications and resources: Find non-credit resources like PDFs, handbooks, and websites, to help you further your learning on a specific topic of interest.
Connect with us
Reach out with any questions, we’d love to hear from you! Connect with your regional support specialist today.
Family book club
Join ACRF staff for Reading Between the Lines, our family book club!
Each month we will read a portion of a selected book related to foster care or adoption, hold meaningful discussions, and will give away gift cards! We will have a limited supply of books available, contact ACRF if you would like one. Contact us to join the book club!
ACRF lending library
Explore books and resources to support your family. Use TinyCat, our online library, to find and request books. It’s simple to use—just browse the collection, choose what you’d like, and we’ll mail the books to you.
Publications and resources
ACRF publications
- ACRF self-study catalog
- Adoption bibliography
- Adoption and disclosure: A guide for families adopting from foster care in Alaska
- Adoption: First steps through finalization
- Alaska Native resource guide
- Circle of support handout
- Confidentiality guidelines for Alaska resource families including social media
- CPR master list
- Education guide for Alaska resource families
- Family matters: A basic guide to custody arrangements
- Financial guide for newly licensed foster parents in Alaska (Updated June 2023)
- FAQ investigations of complaints and allegations against foster homes
- Parenting 911
- Paths to adoption in Alaska
Community resources
- Anchorage guide to programs and supportive services
- Anchorage Resource List
- Fairbanks Community Resource List
- Juneau Community Resource List
- Mat-Su therapeutic resource guide for adoptive families
- Mat-Su paper navigator for FASD resources
Other publications of interest
- Adolescent healthcare transition tools
- Adoption tax credit (2024)
- Alaska special education handbook for parents
- Alaska languages map
- Alaska Native resource handbook
- Alaska resource family handbook (Updated June 2023)
- Background check information
- Becoming a legal guardian for a child in foster care
- Birth and foster parent partnership: A relationship building guide information packet
- Finding forever families: A step-by-step to adoption
- First aid disaster preparation list
- Family safety plan
- Foster care transition tool kit
- ICWA final rule: Summary of key provisions
- Adoption tax credit and subsidy information
- National model foster family home licensing standards
- Rights, responsibilities, and resources: A guidebook for foster youth in Alaska
- Starting and nurturing adoptive parent groups: A guide for leaders
- Strengthen your forever family: A step-by-step guide to post-adoption
- The Hague Convention on intercountry adoption: A guide for prospective adoptive parents
- Well child examination and immunization schedule for Alaska
- What am I doing here? A roadmap for youth in the Alaska child in need of aid system
- Wherever my family is, that’s home: A guide for working with adoption and military families
TBRI tip sheets
Further your learning about Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) by checking out these additional, non-credit-hour tip sheets.
- Healing prenatal trauma, part one and two
- Trauma and the unborn child
- TBRI in the classroom
- Unpacking the IDEAL response: I is for immediate
- Unpacking the IDEAL response: D is for direct
- Unpacking the IDEAL response: E is for efficient
- Unpacking the IDEAL response: A is for action-based
- Unpacking the IDEAL response: L is for leveled at the behavior
- Liar, liar pants on fire
- Responding to aggressive and violent behavior
- Sexualized behavior
- Re-dos are for parents, too
- Neurotransmitters
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