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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
10/22/23
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Q: Now that our youngest is in high school, we want to become foster parents but don’t know where to begin.
Resources:
- How to Choose an Adoption Agency (Guide)
- Becoming a Foster Parent (Resource page)
- Working as Part of a Foster Care Team (Resource page)
- Suggested Books for Foster Care Parents
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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Adoption Scams: How to Recognize and Prevent
October 18, 2023
•52m
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Do you worry about being scammed in a domestic infant adoption? How can you prevent scams and recognize red flags for a failed adoption match? Join us to talk with Colleen Quinn, an adoption attorney at the Adoption & Surrogacy Law Center in Richmond, VA, with 34 years of experience in adoption law. She is the co-author of the last five editions of the VA CLE Adoption Procedures and Forms.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Adoption scams can fall into four general categories:
- those against adoptive parents by expectant or supposedly pregnant women,
- those by brokers or facilitators who are not licensed or may not be legal,
- those by adoption agencies and attorneys agains adoptive parents.
- those done by adoptive against expectant/birth parents.
- What are the typical adoption scams perpetrated by expectant women against prospective adoptive parents or adoption agencies or attorneys?
- How much can adoptive parents pay an expectant mother for living expenses, clothes, transportation, food, etc.?
- What are some ways to prevent being scammed. Red flags for an adoption scam?
- Insist on Video calls and then move to in-person meetings.
- Ask for HiPPA release to see medical records
- Don’t provide cash directly to the expectant parent.
- Work with an experienced adoption agency or adoption attorney.
- What should adoptive families know and ask about unidentified birth fathers?
- What are ways adoptive parents can prevent becoming a victim of an adoption scam or adoption fraud?
- What are warning signs that an expectant woman does not plan to go through with the adoption? Note that this is not necessarily or even commonly the same thing as an adoption scam.
- Watch for the placing parents wanting to name the child.
- Wanting to take the baby home for a few days.
- Terms used by the expectant parent—your baby vs. my family.
- If placing their 3rd or 4th child more often not to place a full sibling and the couple is still to
- Secrecy Not telling her mom
- Grandmom doesn’t agree with placement
- How soon they fill out the forms that we send.
- Slow walk the Hippa forms.
- Not following through with their attorney
- More fall through with adoptive parents
- Not getting good adoption options counseling in person that asks the hard questions. This type of counseling really help her think through.
- Overly or under-emotional about the adoption plan.
- While not necessarily a scam, how common is it for expectant mothers to not be fully open about prenatal exposure to drugs or alcohol?
- Acts by brokers or facilitators who are not acting legally?
- Acts by adoption agencies and attorneys against adoptive parents.
- Adoption scams/fraud against expectant parents or birth parents? (open adoption, fertility treatment, back out of the arrangement)
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
Next Episode
The Holidays with Adopted, Foster, or Kinship Kids Who've Been Exposed to Trauma
October 25, 2023
•35m
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Does it feel like your child is sabotaging the holidays? Are there more tantrums, sullenness, and anxiety during the holiday season? We explore why and what to do about it with Rebecca Robotham, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker at Beehive Counseling & Wellness in Connecticut. She is also an adoptee and former foster child.
In this episode, we cover:
- There are many sources of trauma for children, and many adopted and foster children have experienced trauma before they come to our homes. We’re talking neglect, prenatal exposure, abuse, domestic violence, and the actual act of being removed from your parents.
- How can trauma impact children? Both physically and emotionally?
- What is it about the holidays that makes it hard for kids with trauma? (change in routine, lots of people, bringing up memories, over-stimulation, change in diet, distracted parents, build-up of anticipation, let down after the fact...)
- What type of behaviors might you see? (more tantrums, dysregulation, “sabotaging” the holidays, sibling bickering, depression, sullenness, anxiety, ...)
- How can families do the holidays differently to help kids who have experienced trauma?
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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