Kinship Caregivers & The Hidden Foster Care System
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
09/15/21
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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:
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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.
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The Traumatic Impact of Racism
September 8, 2021
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The trauma of racism impacts our children's physical and emotional health. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Roger Harrison, a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University and a pediatric psychologist in the Division of Behavioral Health at Nemours/Alfred I DuPont Hospital for Children; Dr. Lonna Gordon, the Division Chief of Adolescent Medicine at Nemours Children’s Hospital in Florida. She is board certified in pediatrics, adolescent medicine and obesity medicine; and Cindy Bo, Senior Vice President, Delaware Valley Strategy and Business Development and Interim DRIVE Enterprise Leader.
In this episode, we cover:
We talk a lot about the impact of trauma on children and often we do so in the context of neglect, loss, abuse, removal from biological family, and prenatal exposure. Today we are going to expand the concept of trauma to include the impacts of racism.
- What is racism and what are the different forms it can take?
- Examples of the different types of racism.
- Does racism impact the physical health of minorities?
- Racism hurting the emotional health of minorities.
- In other forms of trauma we can see that the impact on the child varies depending on many factors, such as who was responsible for inflicting the trauma and that persons relationship to the child, the child’s age, and the child’s basic temperament. Is the same true for the traumatic impacts of racism?
- Internalized racism
- Cumulative impact of different types of trauma.
- Are children of color being raised by white parents more vulnerable to the traumatic impacts of racism?
- Does the trauma of racism differ depending on the race or ethnicity of the child or person? Model minority?
- Are non-minority children also impacted negatively by racism?
- How can we help children of color cope with racism and not be unduly impacted by the trauma?
- Suggested books and activities.
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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September 22, 2021
•53m
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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:
- 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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