Right before Christmas I received an email from the CEO of San Mar Children's Homes in Western Maryland. They operate group homes, a school, a foster care agency, and an adoption agency. He was doing some research while developing a newsletter and was going to be using some of the book Parenting Other People's Children. During his research he came across my blog post of this book. (In case you missed it, I read this book not long ago and really got a LOT out of it in understanding Olivia and some her "issues.")

His email went on to say that he would like to use some or all of that post in the newsletter in order to give a foster parent's understanding of it. I agreed and he will be adding almost all of the post along with my information to the newsletter. How exciting! I hope that my thoughts can help others to do some reading and/or research. I know I haven't been fully prepared for some of the issues that have come up, and wish that someone, anyone, especially my foster care agency or some of the professionals I've seen in regards to some of my kiddos, would have helped me to find the knowledge I need/needed.

Their website is: http://www.sanmarhome.org/

The newsletter is hopefully to be posted online once it's completed.