Product Description

NEWLY REVISED For When I’m Famous: A Foster Lifebook for Teens

How many foster teens do you know who like to talk about their life or do self analysis? Not many? Me neither. This work book was designed to

•make 'work' seem like fun, •tap into the teen’s funny bone, •creatively collect vital life facts.

"For When I'm Famous" taps into every teen's dream---to be rich and famous. So with money for their autobiography as the motivator, this workbook eases into past life experiences and relationships.

Reviewed by teens in care AND written with the ever busy social worker in mind, "For When I’m Famous" even includes places for 14 moves (group homes, kinship, running away, psych hospitals).

Therapists, case managers, foster parents, adoptive parents as well as the teen /tween will enjoy this fill-in-the-blank lifebook format.

Be sure to remind the teen "hey—these days anyone could become the next American Idol!"

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #746628 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-22
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• 31 pages

Susan Dougherty, Casey Family Programs, National Center for Resource Family Support. March 2, 2002
"Beth gives teens in foster and adoptive homes a unique way to record their histories and hopes for the future."

From the Author
Every day I work with kids and teens living in foster care. Some have bruises on the outside and all have those black and blue inside, where it's hard to fix.

4 years ago I put together the first teen lifebook. But I kept getting new ideas and inspirations from my day to day work. I am very proud of my latest edition-- it is teen friendly, teen reviewed, and IMHO it rocks! beth

About the Author
Beth O'Malley spent her first five months in foster care before entering her family by adoption.

As a teen, Beth says that "identity and wanting to know " why" was a sneaky but powerful influence. I couldn't even talk about adoption without bursting into tears."

"By my early twenties I was off and running. Redefining myself--sometimes losing myself--coming home 8 years later.I lost a lot of life time."

Maybe this lifebook will help a teen or young person get just enough to fill that hole inside. Avoid some of the pain perhaps. Take back their life.

Most importantly Beth has made countless lifebooks with children and teens in her role as an adoption specialist in Massachusetts.

Beth is the author of best selling "LifeBooks:Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child" and " My Foster Care Journey"

She has helped thousands of adoptive and foster families give their children the answers and security they crave though her books and lifebook seminars.

Customer Reviews

a great book for youth in care
I was in foster care and was adopted myself. This book starts out with easy questions and helps to build a level of comfort, before moving on to some of the more challenging questions. It talks about both positives and negatives, and really gives an adolescent a good, safe opportunity to explore his/her life so far and think about where he/she would like it to head.

An adolescent could do this all at once, or could take his/ her time. It is cohesive, but also easy to leave off in one place and come back to later.

This is a great thing for an adolescent to work on with a caring adult. I highly recommend this book. The interactive nature and ability this gives the adolescent to take ownership of his/her experiences is great.

--J. Justin Pasquariello

Every child in foster care should have this book!
I think "For When I'm Famous" is great! I just gave a copy to another child last week, and he thought it was so cool! We spend our session driving all over the city taking pictures of places he's lived, schools, parks, etc to put in his lifebook. Thanks to Beth O'Malley for her dedication to these kids!

Kelley Fox, clinical social worker