Racial Disparities in Reproductive Medicine
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
06/01/22
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In this episode, we talk with Dr. Tia Jackson-Bey about Racial Disparities in Reproductive Medicine. Dr. Jackson-Bey is a Reproductive Endocrinologist with RMA of NY. She speaks frequently on reproductive justice and increasing access to fertility care and she is a member of the Americian Society for Reproductive Medicine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Taskforce.
In this episode, we cover:
- What biological reproductive health conditions that can impact their fertility are Black women more prone to.
- Tubal or uterine abnormalities
- PCOS
- Fibroids
- Racial Disparities in Infertility Treatment
- African American women are more likely than white women to experience infertility and wait longer to seek care.
- Women of color are less likely to access fertility treatment.
- Racial Disparities in Other Reproductive Health Issues
- Contraceptive use
- Pap tests
- Mammograms
- Maternal mortality
- Preterm birth
- Low birth weight
- Uptake of human papillomavirus vaccination
- What are some of the social and structural challenges that contribute to these racial and ethnic disparities?
- What can infertility nurses do to reduce racial disparities in reproductive health care?
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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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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Legal and Medical Risk in Infant Adoption
June 8, 2022
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Are you considering adopting a baby? On today's show we talk about the legal and medical risk factors you need to consider. We talk with Amy Wallas Fox about the legal risk factors in infant adoption. Ms. Fox is an attorney partner of Claiborne Fox Bradley Goldman, a North Carolina and Georgia law firm and a fellow in the American Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys. We talk with Dr. Lisa Prock, MD, MPH, about the medical risk factors in infant adoption. Dr. Prock is the Director of the Developmental Medicine Center and Associate Chief in the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
In this episode, we cover:
- How can a hopeful adoptive parent find a baby to adopt in the US?
- What is the difference between an adoption agency, adoption attorney, adoption facilitator, and adoption consultant?
- What is meant by an adoption-friendly state? Is there a state that is better than others to try to find an expectant mom who may want to place her child for adoption?
- What are the different time periods that expectant parents or birth parents have to change their mind?
- Adoption is covered by state law.
- Is it possible for a birth family to get the child back after an adoption is complete?
- What are some of the legal issues with birth fathers—both identified and unidentified?
- How does the Indian Child Welfare Act impact legal risk in adoption?
- What are some red flags that an expectant mom may not go through with the adoption plan and decide to parent?
- What are the most dangerous drugs or substances that an expectant woman can use during pregnancy as far as impact on the fetus and baby?
- What is the impact of alcohol on a fetus and baby, both short term and long term?
- What is the impact of opiates (prescription and non-prescription) on a fetus and baby, both short term and long term?
- What is the impact of methadone or suboxone on a fetus and baby, both short term and long term?
- What is the impact of heroin on baby, both short term and long term?
- What is the impact of methamphetamines on a baby, both short term and long term?
- Long term impact of prenatal exposure to cocaine or crack?
- If the birth mother stopped using drugs and stopped drinking when she found out she was pregnant, will the baby be spared the worst of the impact?
- What are the risks to the baby if the mother has Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C, HIV, syphillis?
- Is ADHD inheritable? Is there a gene for ADHD?
- Do certain mental illnesses have a genetic connection? What is the likelihood that the child will have depression, anxiety, bi-polar, schizophrenia, or other mental illnesses if the birth parents had the illness?
- Should adoptive parents worry if the expectant mom has not had prenatal care?
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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