Family Building Challenges for Military Families: Adoption, IVF & Fostering
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
09/22/21
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We talk about the challenges of adopting, fostering, IVF, or third-party reproduction while being in the military. We talk with the co-founders of the Military Family Building Coalition, Katy Bell Hendrickson and Ellen Gustafson.
In this episode, we cover:
- What are the challenges of being in the military and trying to adopt?
- What are the challenges of being in the military when seeking fertility treatment
- Military health insurance: Tri Care
- Military Family Building Coalition https://www.militaryfamilybuilding.org/
- What does Military Family Building Coalition do?
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:
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- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Kinship Caregivers & The Hidden Foster Care System
September 15, 2021
•58m
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Kinship caregivers (primarily grandparents raising their grandchildren) are often functioning as a shadow foster care system. We talk with Josh Gupta-Kagan, a Professor of Law at the University of South Carolina School of Law and author of America’s Hidden Foster Care System in the Stanford Law Review, and Karissa Phelps, a Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow at Temple Legal Aid, where she provides legal representation and services to kinship caregivers.
In this episode, we cover:
- In many cases, child protection agencies induce parents to transfer physical custody of their children to kinship caregivers by threatening to place the children in foster care.
- How often does this happen?
- Why do you call this the “hidden” foster care system?
- Generally speaking, don’t we consider it best practice for kids to remain with extended family? So why is this a problem? Is it inherently coercive?
- What are the advantages to encouraging placement with kin before they enter the formal foster care system?
- What are the risks?
- If this transfer takes place outside of the system, how long does it last? How can children go home? Who decides?
- How does this differ from informal kinship care?
- How does The Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018 contribute to the “hidden foster care system”?
- Do you see kinship placements increasing?
- What are child welfare agencies doing to support kinship families?
- Follow the money: Is it less expensive for agencies to place with kin rather than unrelated foster parents?
- How is foster care funded?
- What is the status of kinship navigator programs?
- How can we best support kinship families?
- What do you see as the biggest challenges to kinship families?
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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How to Afford Adoption
September 29, 2021
•65m
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What are some tried and true ways to afford adoption? In this episode, we talk with Julie Gumm, author of You Can Adopt Without Debt: Creative Ways to Cover the Cost of Adoption. We cover ways to find “extra” money that you can put towards your adoption, ideas for increasing your savings, and reasons to be cautious about asking for donations to pay for an adoption.
In this episode, we cover:
- How much do adoptions cost for families adopting in the US?
- Julie’s story of how they afforded to adopt
- What are the different options for paying for an adoption? Savings, second job, sell things, grants, fundraise, ask for money from family and friends
- How to effectively save money? - “Start with the money you already have”
- How long in advance do you need to start?
- Federal Adoption Tax Credit State Adoption Tax Credit, Adoption Employee Benefits
- Second job and freelance ideas
- Downside of adding additional work to your schedule
- Selling items you have but don’t use much or don’t need
- Fundraising to help pay for an adoption. Controversial in some adoption circles
- Difference between offering a service or event vs. asking for money
- Things to be aware of when deciding on how to fundraise for adoption. Dangers of oversharing your child’s story in order to raise money
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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