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Creating a Soft Place to Land for Foster Children in South Carolina with Jennifer Tice
Season 3 Episode 19
A child shouldn’t have to fall asleep in a cubicle while adults debate where she’ll go next. That image stuck, and it’s the spark behind this convers…
9 hours ago
Encourage One Another: Hope for Adoptive Families in Crisis
Season 3 Episode 18
Some families look fine on Sunday and feel like they’re falling apart by Monday morning. That gap, the public calm and the private chaos, is where a …
1 week, 6 days ago
What Long-Term Research Reveals About Childhood Abuse and how it may affect children in Foster Care
Season 3 Episode 17
Trauma leaves clues, and foster and adoptive parents are often the first people to see them clearly. When a child “forgets” what they knew yesterday,…
3 weeks, 1 day ago
Fostering Connections: Youth Impacted By Foster Care Deserve Tools For Real Life
Season 3 Episode 16
The foster care system asks teenagers to carry adult-sized problems, then expects them to be “ready” on a birthday. That disconnect is where today’s …
4 weeks, 1 day ago
From Foster Care to Adoption: The Space between TPR and Finalization
Season 3 Episode 15
TPR is supposed to bring clarity, but for a lot of foster and adoptive families it brings a new kind of fog. We’re talking about the space nobody cap…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Cayela Moody: Embracing Special Needs Foster Parenting
Season 3 Episode 14
What if the life you built at the “resort”—easy routines, familiar friends, and tidy plans—suddenly moved you to a private island? That’s how Cayela …
2 months ago
Jordan Whitmarsh: Learning to Live with Grief as a Part of Life
Season 3 Episode 13
Grief doesn’t wait for tidy timelines or perfect words. With our friend and adoptive mom Jordan Whitmarsh, we step straight into the deep end: living…
2 months, 1 week ago
Tips for Sustainability in Foster Care and Adoption
Season 3 Episode 12
We reflect on the move from drowning in caregiver burnout to building a sustainable life in foster care and adoption. We share three pillars—communit…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Rebecca Unedited: When Love Doesn’t Feel Like Love
Season 3 Episode 11
What happens when one child feels like home at the door and another, from the same sibling set, feels impossible to love? We open our front door and …
3 months ago
Simon Benn: We Are Not Our Trauma
Season 3 Episode 10
A single keepsake cracked open a lifetime of hidden feeling. When Simon Ben learned that his childhood teddy bear came from his birth mother, a wave …
3 months, 1 week ago