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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
06/21/25
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Question: Today's question is about black parents adopting a white child. This was a question we received from a survey we sent out to issues that our audience wished that we would address.
Resources:
- Raising a Child Through a Transracial Adoption
- Transracial Adoption Twist: Black Parents Adopting White Kids
- Black Families Adopting White Children
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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How People of Faith Can Support Vulnerable Kids and Families
June 18, 2025
•56m
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How can we get people of faith more involved in helping vulnerable kids and families and supporting foster and kinship families? Join our discussion with Jason Johnson and Shmuly Yanklowitz. Pastor Johnson is with The Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) and is both a foster and adoptive dad. Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz is the Founder & President of YATOM: The Jewish Foster & Adoption Network. Rabbi Yanklowitz has twice been named one of America’s Top Rabbis by Newsweek and is a foster dad.
In this episode, we discuss:
- How can churches, synagogues, mosques, and other faith communities step forward to help families?
- What are the different ways people of faith can help?
- How do we get the rabbis, ministers, and leaders on board?
- Better for the church or synagogue
- What are the biggest obstacles you see for leadership to want to embrace this ministry or program?
- How to get people involved?
- What are the biggest obstacles for people wanting to get involved?
- How can places of faith circle around grandparents and other relatives caring for children?
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Building Rhythms of Self-Care Into Our Parenting with Nicole Barlow
June 25, 2025
•53m
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How do you define self-care? Are you establishing a routine of self-care that supports you to meet your kid's needs? Nicole Barlow joins the podcast to discuss how we think about self-care, why it's crucial, and how to create rhythms of self-care in our homes. She is a certified wellness coach, TBRI® Practitioner, and parent trainer for foster and adoptive parents.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Re-define self-care
- Why is self-care crucial for parents and caregivers?
- Why do so many of us resist or neglect self-care?
- What are some of the benefits of a well-rounded approach to self-care that might move the needle for someone who says, “I’m too busy...” or “Self-care is selfish, etc.”
- What are some of the indicators we might identify in our lives that say we should focus on our wellbeing more intently?
- Framing a holistic approach to self-care:
- Physical wellness
- Emotional & Mental wellness
- Physical wellness
- Spiritual wellness
- Where does one start if we’ve never established regular self-care routines?
- How can we build from that starting place into overall rhythms of self-care?
- Where do practices like meal planning, budgeting, and home management fit into the picture?
- What about socialization, building a support network, engaging in respite, etc.?
- What do you recommend to parents and caregivers who look up one day and find themselves isolated or without a solid support network?
- Where do they start building or re-building that for themselves?
- Practical advice to start and maintain a self-care routine
- Walk every day
- Boost the benefit by walking with a friend
- Boost the benefit by engaging in quiet time, self-reflection, prayer, etc.
- Engage in strength training
- Building muscle aids the body in processing stress
- Eat whole foods
- Nourishing your body aids in regulating and processing stress
- Walk every day
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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