ORPARC library

Choose conveniently from how-to parenting guides, children’s books, information packets, digital downloads, videos, or deep dives into tough topics like trauma. Materials mailed FREE of charge! Enjoy a brief library tour with our mischievous Tiny Bear in the ORPARC Short Supports video below.

Not sure what to choose? Call 1-855-496-BOOK (2665) or email ORPARClibrary@nwresource.org. We're happy to make recommendations.

• Admire our new Culture Connection Collection uplifting kids of color in care! En español
• Browse our astonishing online array of books, DVDs, children & teen materials, and more.
  • HINT: use filters on far right of each library page to sort by age, genre, language, etc.!
• Check out our expanded DIGITAL MATERIALS collection (email us for a login code!)
• Explore our information packets you can order for keeps.
• View our free ORPARC Short Supports videos on so many supportive topics.

If you are an Oregon state resource (foster), adoptive, guardianship, respite, or pre-adopt parent, Oregon DHS or SNAC worker, or other supporting community partner, you are eligible to use ORPARC's library.

Extras:

• Adoptee Reading - books by or recommended by adoptees!
• Want To Create Secure Attachment? Look in a Book! by Michelle Halle, LCSW

Library Materials by Subject:

Materials in other languages include Español/Spanish, Russian, Chuukese, Vietnamese and some Tribal languages.

• ADHD/ADD
• Adoption (General)
• All About Me
• Anger
• Anxiety
• Attachment & Bonding
• Autism/Aspergers
• Bullying
• Child Development
• Child Welfare
• Children's Materials - grade/age tags are only meant as starting points, not definitive guides
• Chuukese Language
• Complex & Development Trauma
• Cultural Diversity/Transracial
• Culture Connection Collection - Thanks to the State Library of Oregon and a LSTA grant, a new collection culturally & carefully curated to support kids of color in care, adoption, guardianship and/or kincare. En español
• Curly Hair Care
• Depression
• Developmental Differences
• Diet & Nutrition
• Discipline
• Disruption and Dissolution
• Education - School Issues
• Education - Special Education
• Emancipation/Preparation for Adulthood
• Emotional Literacy
• Faith Inspired
• FASD/Drug Affected
• Foster Care
• Incarceration
• Infant Mental Health
• Infertility Issues + digital options
• International
• Kinship Relatives
• Legal Issues
• LGBTQ+ Issues
• Lifestory Books
• Lying/Confabulation/Stealing
• Loss & Grief
• Medical Issues
• Mental Health
• Neurological
• Openness/Mediation
• ORPARC Short Supports Video series
• Parenting
• Physical Abuse
• Play
• Pre-adoption
• Professional Materials
• Respite Care
• Russian Language
• Search & Reunion
• Self-Destructive/Suicidal
• Sensory Integration
• Sex Education
• Sexual Abuse
• Sexualized Behavior
• Siblings
• Single Parenting
• Slumberkins - coming soon!
• Spanish - Materiales en Español
• Substance Abuse/Addiction
• Support Groups
• Talking About Race
• Talking About Adoption
• TBRI® -Trust Based Relational Intervention
• Teen Issues
• Teen Materials
• Transitions
• Trauma/PTSD
• Triad Issues
• Tribal
• Vietnamese Language
• Violence (Domestic, etc.)