Welcome to Families Across Michigan (FAM)

MARE's bi-monthly family newsletter

• Adoption Tax Credits

• Most Frequently Asked Questions About Adoption

• It Takes a Village: Raising a Large Adoptive Family
• Don't Give Up: One Family's Story of Special Needs Adoption in Michigan

• The Multiethnic Placement Act and the Interethnic Placement Act

• Living with Oral Apraxia
• Adoption Tax Credit

• Adoption Tax Credit
• Ask the Advocate: Special Education and Suspension/Expulsion

• Adoption Policy: What is that Infamous "10-Day Timeframe?"

• What is Down Syndrome?

• Reactive Attachment Disorder

• Parenting the Sexually Abused Child
• LifeBooks: Every Foster Child Needs One

• About Early-Onset Bipolar Disorder
• Answers to Children's Questions about Adoption

• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• The Effects of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure

• The Eyes Have It -- Learn about the therapeutic technique called EMDR
• Cleft Palate and Lip

• Resources Available Through MARE's Lending Library

• Creating a Family by Birth and Adoption

• What "Special Needs" Adoption is Really All About
• CASA is Growing in Michigan

• Depression in Childhood and Adolescence
• Dyslexia: Disability or Gift?

• Disclosing Background Information
• What is Cerebral Palsy?
• The Effects of Loss

• Fetal Alcohol Syndrome/Fetal Alcohol Effect
• Federal Laws Aim to Remove Barriers

• Sibling Ties are Worth Preserving

• What's in a Name?
• Parenting with Love and Logic -- Raising a Responsible Child

• Why Can't Andrew Sit Still? -- A first-hand look at ADHD
• Parenting with Love and Logic -- Empathy, With Consequences

• What is Autism?
• Parenting with Love and Logic -- Who's Really in Charge?
• Kuweza -- Take a look Bethany Christian Services recruitment program

• Living with An Angry Child
• Parentig with Love and Logic -- Encouraging our Children to Fail?!
• Michigan Special Education Mediation Program

• Becoming Your Own Adoption Advocate: A Guide for Families
• Adoption Tax Credits and Exemptions Become Law

• Responding to Adoptive Families in Crisis

• A Visit with the Adoption Subsidy Program Manager -- Meet Kate Yong
• The Michigan Adoption Recruitment Consortium

• HIV/AIDS and the Child Welfare System
• Child Protection Bills Signed into Law
• Overview of Adoption Subsidy

• Working with Gay and Lesbian Adoptive Parents
• March is Parenting Awareness Month

• Adoption: A Celebration of Family

• The Need for Post-Adoption Services

• An IDEA for Your Child's Future: Advocating for Special Education Needs, Part 2
• Assistive Technology Breaks Down Barriers

• An IDEA for Your Child's Future: Advocating for Special Education Needs, Part 1

• How and When to Tell a Child They're Adopted
• Help Your Children to Become Better Adults
• Talking to Children About Their Strengths and Weaknesses

• Most Frequently Asked Questions About Adoption

• A Voice for Children -- Meet Richard Bearup, Michigan's Children's Ombudsman
• When the System Breaks Down
• Adoption Expense Credit

• What Does "Special Needs" Really Mean?
• November is National Adoption Month

• Searching for Birth Relatives, Part 2

• Searching for Birth Relatives, Part 1
• Tuition Incentive Program

• The Foster Child
• What is Bandele?
• Encouragement -- for your children, and you

• Adoption of the Sexually Abused Child
• Computers for Special Needs Children?
• Meditations on the MARE Book