About Mary & Allen Goodearle/New Paradigms Unlimited:

Mary is a foster parent trainer, consultant and author.  It is her mission to help build supportive environments
for foster parents and children in which they can thrive.  In addition to Mary and her husband, Allen, having
foster parented over 40 children, they are the parents of seven adopted children and two biological children.  
Mary is a former Child Protection Social Worker, Foster Care Coordinator, and State Adoption Social Worker.  
She taught classes in Foster Care and Adoption at a community college for nine years and trained  in partnership
with the University of Wisconsin providing workshops and seminars for both foster parents and social workers.  
Mary holds a Bachelor's Degree from California State University in Sociology and Psychology, and a Master's
Degree from the University of Wisconsin in Human Services Management and Public Administration. Mary and
Allen have been married for 41 years and reside in Lowell Arkansas with their youngest son, Jamie. Mary is
currently an instructor for MidSOUTH Training Academy with the University of Arkansas Fayetteville. She and
Allen are featured authors on The Foster Care/Adoption Community at www.fosterparents.com.

New Paradigms Unlimited was founded by Mary and Allen.  Their agency provides outstanding leadership and
training through workshops and keynotes based on their own actual experiences with children and agencies, and
Mary's own inside expertise on how the system works.  Mary is the author of a new book for foster parents
entitled "A Guide to Foster Parenting Everything But the Kids!  

Allen is working on his own book about his days in foster care as a child and how he is still affected by it today.  
The title is "Cracks in the Walls."  It will be available in late winter or early spring of 2010.
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About the Book
"While most foster parents have altruistic motives in their hearts, they must put
'survival in the system' skills on their foster parenting resumes"

"Working in the foster care and the social services systems is as equally
challenging as parenting the foster children."

"Foster parents require more than good parenting skills to achieve longevity and
success in today's foster care climate!"

"Most social workers and case workers don't understand the difficulty of your
job as a foster parent."

"Foster parents felt under-valued and dispensable!"

"Foster parents, individually, must think of themselves as professionals, and as a
larger group, they must work together to gain professional credibility and
recognition from their professional peers and administrators!"
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New Paradigms Unlimited
Mary Goodearle
14900 Park Ridge Drive
Lowell AR  72745

Or PHONE: 479-419-5126
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Chapters:

1. Professionalism

2. Teamwork

3. Foster Couple Relationships

4. Family, Friends, & Everyone Else!

5. Abuse Allegations: Prevention to Survival

6. Hindsight
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    *FOSTER PARENTING: EXCELLENCE THROUGH TEAMWORK!
    (Workshop or Keynote)

    *PARENTING ON THE SAME CHANNEL!

    *RAISING FOSTER/ADOPTED TEENS; NOT FOR THE FAINT OF   
    Heart!

    *PREVENTING AND SURVIVING ABUSE ALLEGATIONS

    *RESILIENT CHILDREN; BUILD ON THEIR STRENGTHS!

    *THROUGH YOUR FOSTER CHILD'S EYES

    *DIFFICULT CHILDREN 101  

    *FOSTER CHILDREN AND POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS

    *AFTER THE SPECIAL NEEDS ADOPTION

    *PARENTING CHILDREN WITH POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS

NEW PARADIGMS UNLIMITED
Allen & Mary Goodearle
14900 Park Ridge Drive
Lowell AR  72745
PH: 479-419-5126

email at: newparadigms2000@yahoo.com
NEW PARADIGMS UNLIMITED
Mary & Allen Goodearle
The Foster/Adoptive Parent
Trainers!
A FEW OF OUR
WORKSHOP
TOPICS:
Australia's
FOSTER PARENTS' SUPPORT
NETWORK
June 2008  Conference
Baulkham Hills, New South Wales
Allen and I had the pleasure of key-noting both Australia's Foster Parent Conferences in
June 2008.  The first was sponsored by Wesley-Delmar Missions. Foster parents there
had previously been presented with a copy of my book, A Guide to Foster Parenting
Everything But the Kids."  The second conference was attended by foster parents from
all over Australia and as far away as Tasmania!  It was sponsored by Australia's "Foster  
Parent's Network." Our key-note was entitled, "Professionalism and Teamwork."  We
presented workshops including: Parenting On the Same Channel; Parenting Difficult
Teenagers; and A Walk in Their Shoes (for social workers).  We found that foster parents
face many of the same challenges as we do here in the United States! We all have in
common open hearts and the will to help children in need.  Both Allen and I  want to
thank Rose Cowen, Sue Pickles, Theresa Burgheim, Jill De-arth, Sue O'Conner and
everyone who was involved in organizing the conferences and selecting us as their
key-note speakers!  We truly loved meeting all of you!  A special hello to Michelle
Chapman, Brett Tyler, and John Hellyer!  Keep in touch!

You can visit Australia's Foster Parent's Network by clicking this link:
www.fosterparentsupportnetwork.org.au
Click here for:
The Goodearle's pictured with Barbara
and Fred Liener, who are the founders
of The Foster Care and Adoption
Community.  The picture was taken at
California's State Foster & Adoptive
Parents Conference.  

This picture is dedicated to Fred
Leiner who was our friend and mentor!
We hope he is looking down on us
and guiding us from heaven.
        Foster Care
                &
 Adoptive Community