Engaging Churches in the Foster Care Crisis
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
06/15/22
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How can churches support kids in foster care and prevent children from entering foster care? Join us for our discussion with Jedd Medefind, President of the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO) and Amber Knowles, the Executive Director of The Riverside Project (formerly Fostering Family).
In this episode, we cover:
- We call it a foster care “crisis”. What does that term mean? What are the needs of foster children?
- What is each organization doing to help engage churches in caring for foster kids?
- What are ways people of faith can help improve the world of fostering if they know that they aren’t able to actually get licensed to foster?
- How can churches provide support for people once they are parenting kids from foster care—either through fostering or adoption?
- How can churches work to support birth families to help once the child has been reunified or to help stabilize them so that children don’t end up in care?
- How can faith communities get involved with supporting foster families and foster kids?
- The Jockey Being Family® Back to School Bash events will take place during the weekend of August 5-7th, 2022. These gatherings are geared towards foster and adoptive families with children 5-14 years of age. This is a chance to celebrate, educate, and empower families with a fun-filled and informative event as they prepare to head back to school for the upcoming year. Jockey Being Family® Foundation will provide grants for up to $3,000 to eligible organizations to help bring a Back to School Bash to your community. Together, we can be a much-needed support network for foster and adoptive families across the country. Email JBFBSB@jockey.com for additional information.
- More Than Enough
- Fostering Family and the Riverside Project
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:
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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
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Legal and Medical Risk in Infant Adoption
June 8, 2022
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Are you considering adopting a baby? On today's show we talk about the legal and medical risk factors you need to consider. We talk with Amy Wallas Fox about the legal risk factors in infant adoption. Ms. Fox is an attorney partner of Claiborne Fox Bradley Goldman, a North Carolina and Georgia law firm and a fellow in the American Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys. We talk with Dr. Lisa Prock, MD, MPH, about the medical risk factors in infant adoption. Dr. Prock is the Director of the Developmental Medicine Center and Associate Chief in the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
In this episode, we cover:
- How can a hopeful adoptive parent find a baby to adopt in the US?
- What is the difference between an adoption agency, adoption attorney, adoption facilitator, and adoption consultant?
- What is meant by an adoption-friendly state? Is there a state that is better than others to try to find an expectant mom who may want to place her child for adoption?
- What are the different time periods that expectant parents or birth parents have to change their mind?
- Adoption is covered by state law.
- Is it possible for a birth family to get the child back after an adoption is complete?
- What are some of the legal issues with birth fathers—both identified and unidentified?
- How does the Indian Child Welfare Act impact legal risk in adoption?
- What are some red flags that an expectant mom may not go through with the adoption plan and decide to parent?
- What are the most dangerous drugs or substances that an expectant woman can use during pregnancy as far as impact on the fetus and baby?
- What is the impact of alcohol on a fetus and baby, both short term and long term?
- What is the impact of opiates (prescription and non-prescription) on a fetus and baby, both short term and long term?
- What is the impact of methadone or suboxone on a fetus and baby, both short term and long term?
- What is the impact of heroin on baby, both short term and long term?
- What is the impact of methamphetamines on a baby, both short term and long term?
- Long term impact of prenatal exposure to cocaine or crack?
- If the birth mother stopped using drugs and stopped drinking when she found out she was pregnant, will the baby be spared the worst of the impact?
- What are the risks to the baby if the mother has Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C, HIV, syphillis?
- Is ADHD inheritable? Is there a gene for ADHD?
- Do certain mental illnesses have a genetic connection? What is the likelihood that the child will have depression, anxiety, bi-polar, schizophrenia, or other mental illnesses if the birth parents had the illness?
- Should adoptive parents worry if the expectant mom has not had prenatal care?
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
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
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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Kinship Caregiving: Managing Relationships with the Child's Parents
June 22, 2022
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One of the hardest parts of being a kinship caregiver is navigating the relationship with the child's birth parent. We talk with Dr. Joseph Crumbley, a social worker, family therapist and author of “An Overview of Kinship Care”.
In this episode, we cover:
- Creating a Family listening sessions with kinship caregivers in rural counties.
- What are some of the complicating factors in the relationship between kinship caregivers and the child’s parents?
- Grandparents and other caregivers sometimes feel that the child’s parents will threaten them with taking the child away if they do something that the parent disapproves of.
- How to not enable the child’s parent but still have a relationship.
- How to set healthy boundaries for the caregiver’s and child’s best interest when you have years of experience not setting healthy boundaries?
- How to handle others in the family who interfere with the boundaries you’ve established?
- I don't know if this is a question, but I really struggle with getting my kids opportunities to see their mom and siblings. All other siblings have been reunited, and I gather it's painful for their mom to see the two that were adopted by us (she surrendered her rights). Although we live relatively close to them, we have only managed 2-3 visits a year, mostly because of long periods of no responses to my texts or last-minute cancellations of planned visits. Sometimes our adopted kids can't even remember their siblings' names and it just breaks my heart. I'd love for them to have a closer relationship, but I have only limited control.
- How to handle the anger, shame, guilt you feel at the child’s parents?
- How to support co-parenting when the child’s parent is still not in a healthy place?
- How to support reunification?
For more information please refer to www.drcrumbley.com.
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
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
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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