How Are Foster Care Adoption Matches Made? - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
01/28/24
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Question: How are pre-adoptive matches made in foster care? I’ve heard that families may even need to network with social workers to be noticed when possible matches come up, but I’m not sure how matches are made.
Resources:
- Working as Part of a Foster Care Team
- Foster Care Adoption
- Practical Tips for Fostering a Sibling Group
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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- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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An Adoption Memoir with Susan Ito
January 24, 2024
•35m
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Join us for a wonderful discussion with author and performer Susan Kiyo Ito about her new memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere. This is a book adoptive parents should read!
In this episode, we cover:
- It felt like much of the tension between you and your birth mother was due to her desire to keep you a secret and your desire to be seen. And also her desire to be in control of this relationship.
- The harsh reality that adoption reunions between adoptees and birth families can be fraught with lots of conflicting emotions. In the book I Would Meet You Anywhere, you describe this tension. “Once again, I was the secret held by our mother. I was wilting under the weight of all the not telling. Still, I couldn't resist Yumi’s siren call. I would crash on the rocks of her.”
- It’s not about us—the adoptive parents. It was your quest to be whole. Talk with us about your relationship with your parents—your adoptive parents –and yet still feeling a longing to understand and connect with your biological parents and roots.
- Did reunion change your concept of what family is?
- Primal wound.
- Why is the phrase “You’re so lucky” so off the mark, even for someone like you who had what seems like a loving, not idyllic, but fine upbringing?
- Japanese American parents raised you, but you sometimes felt not Japanese enough because of your white biological father. How have you made meaning out of your “biracialness”?
- The importance of being in a community with other adopted people.
- Has your birth mother read the book, and if so, has it impacted your relationship?
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 Create a Compelling Adoptive Parent Profile
January 31, 2024
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How can you create an adoptive parent profile to help you stand out and show what makes you unique? To find out, join our guests Erin Quick, the Founder and CEO of PairTree and an adoptive mom, and Jess Nelson, the profile creation provider at Pairtree and a two-time birth mom.
In this episode, we cover:
- What are Adoptive Parent Profiles?
- What other names might they go by?
- Each agency or attorney has their own preference, but the goal is to be yourself and to represent your family honestly.
- What are the different ways that agencies use profiles?
- Do agencies share your home study with the expectant mom or couple?
- How many profiles is an expectant mother or couple usually given to look at?
- Does each adoption agency or adoption attorney have different info they want you to share?
- What are the elements of a “good” profile?
- What should be on your cover?
- What sections/topics should you include?
- Should you discuss your thoughts on openness in adoption?
- Is a “closing “important?
- How many pictures should you include in an adoptive parent profile?
- Are captions to the pictures important?
- Quality of the pictures.
- Should you include a video if your adoption portfolio is digital?
- What type of pictures should you avoid?
- How to handle pictures with alcohol in them?
- Is there anything different you would suggest for single prospective parents? female and male
- Is there anything different you would suggest for LGBTQ+ prospective adoptive parents?
- How do you show your family support when you do not have a close family because of death or estrangement?
- What if your house or apartment does not look good or does not photograph well?
- What format should you use: hardback book, booklet, online, or stapled together?
- How many copies should you print?
- How important is the adoptive parent portfolio in the expectant parent’s decision-making?
- What is the experience like for an expectant mom or couple to go through profiles.
- Birth Parent Experiences in Adoption (1 hour Creating a Family podcast)
- A Panel of Birth Moms Talk About Adoption (1 hour Creating a Family podcast)
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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