You Are Important: Big Feelings, New Places, and People Who Care

Sometimes life changes quickly, and children can find themselves in new places with lots of questions and big feelings. You Are Important: Big Feelings, New Places, and People Who Care is a gentle, reassuring children's book created to help children navigating foster care, kinship care, adoption, or other family changes understand that their feelings matter, their voice matters, and, most importantly, they mater. Through comforting words and tender Illustrations, children are reminded that it's okay to miss people they love, to have more than one feeling at the same time, and to care about both where they came from and the people caring for them now. They don't have to choose between the people they love. With supportive messages, reflection activities, and coloring pages, You Are Important gives children a safe way to explore their emotions while reinforcing a simple but powerful message: You are important. Your feelings matter. Your voice matters. And you are not alone. A thoughtful resource for foster and adoptive families, kinship caregivers, CASA volunteers, social workers, counselors, therapists, teachers, and anyone helping a child through change.