Protecting our Kids from Sexual Exploitation
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
05/18/22
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Foster youth or children who have been in the foster care system make up over 80% of children being sexually exploited. What can you do to prevent this from happening to your child? We talk with Audrey Morrissey, Co-Executive Director of My Life My Choice, a survivor-led nonprofit fighting sexual exploitation of youth.
In this episode, we cover:
- What are some of the different forms that sexual exploitation can take?
- What is included in sexual trafficking?
- Internet exploitation.
- How does grooming take place.
- Are foster children disproportionately represented in the sexually exploited population?
- Are children who have experienced trauma over represented?
- Seeking love and connection.
- Sexual exploit of boys?
- What can parents do to protect their children from sexual exploitation?
- What resources are available to parents and young people?
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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Raising a Blended Family
May 11, 2022
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Representative Marjorie Margolies had a busy career as a journalist, author, Congressional Representative, professor, and founder of Women’s Campaign International all while raising 11 kids by adoption, birth, sponsorship, and marriage. She is the author of a new memoir And How Are the Children.
In this episode, we cover:
- How did each of your children join your family?
- How did you “blend” children that came to you in different ways, with different backgrounds, and different ages?
- What were the biggest challenges?
- Did some of your children struggled? How much do you think the way they came to your family impacted their struggles?
- What did you learn along the way?
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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Effectiveness of Online Parent Support Groups
May 25, 2022
•52m
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What is the future for parent support groups and are online support groups here to stay? How can we make them better? We talk with Dr. Jay Miller, Dean and Dorothy Miller Research Professor at the College of Social Work, University of Kentucky. He is a former foster youth and is now a prolific researcher in what works to support foster, adoptive, and kinship families.
In this episode, we cover:
- The Virtual Interaction Pilot Program at the University of Kentucky
- How to create a sense of community and relationship building with online parent support groups?
- How many is too many participants in online groups?
- What platform is best? Zoom? Microsoft Teams? Google Meet?
- What day of week and time of day is best for participation?
- Are there differences between urban vs. rural support groups?
- How to increase engagement in meetings?
- Do hybrid parent support groups work?
- What is the future for foster, adoptive, and kinship parent support groups?
- Do you see a difference in support groups for kinship 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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