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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
11/22/25
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Question: Do you have trainings for children transitioning from foster care to adoption?
Resources:
- Transitioning a Child to Your Home
- Welcoming an Older Child to Your Family
- Helping Your Child Transition Smoothly from Foster Care to Adoption
- Using Lifebooks to Explain Complex Issues in Adoption to Kids
- Books about being adopted from foster 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.
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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Taking Care of Yourself When Parenting Harder to Parent Kids
November 19, 2025
•37m
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Do you sometimes feel that self-care is an impossible goal when you are parenting kids who have experienced trauma? There isn’t enough time in the day to do it all, much less take care of yourself. Or is there? Join us to talk about how to find time to take care of yourself. We will talk with Angelica Jones, MSW, Program Director of Intercountry Services and the Intensive Service Foster Care Recruiter and Trainer at Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services.
In this episode, we discuss:
- “Selfcare” or “take care of yourself” are overused but still vitally important terms for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents.
- Why do all parents but especially parents of kids who’ve experienced trauma need to practice self-care?
- What is secondary trauma?
- Why are kids who’ve experience neglect, abuse and other childhood traumas harder to parent?
- Challenging Behaviors
- Learning disabilities
- The busyness of foster and adoptive parenting.
- So many appointments (therapy, OT, tutoring, doctors, IEP meetings, social workers, birth family visits, etc.)
- Helping with education-homework struggles.
- Dealing with the emotional fallout from early life trauma.
- What are some of the barriers to taking care of ourselves as adoptive, foster or kinship parents?
- The importance of respite care and the barriers to parents using it.
- Practical ideas for providing self-care.
- Think small when thinking self-care.
- Ask for help and accept it when offered. If someone offers to help, say “yes” and suggest something specific.
- Parent Support groups
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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A Conversation with Emily Cole from Bananas Foster
November 26, 2025
•32m
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Join us for a fun and inspiring conversation with Emily Cole, co-founder and co-owner of Banana Ball, the new sports phenomenon sweeping the country. We're talking with her about Bananas Foster, their non-profit that celebrates foster families all around the nation.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Please tell us the story of how Bananas Foster got started.
- What was happening in your life that made you say, “We need to do something for foster families”?
- What was the biggest challenge in getting things off the ground?
- For listeners who might not know you yet, what’s the mission of Bananas Foster?
- What are some of the biggest everyday needs you hear about from foster, kinship, or adoptive families?
- How do you see Bananas Foster stepping into those areas of need?
- What’s your big dream for Bananas Foster — say, five or ten years from now?
- You talk about celebrating and supporting foster families — can you share what that looks like at a typical Banana Ball game day?
- What kinds of local partnerships do you have in the cities you visit — with churches, agencies, schools, or other groups?
- Looking ahead, do you have a plan or goal for building on those partnerships or expanding the care you offer with them?
- The celebrations you host are such a bright spot! What do families tell you after those events — how do they feel when they leave?
- Is there a particular story, celebration, or family that has really stuck with you?
- How do you hope those celebrations will grow or change over the next few years?
- What’s one thing you’ve learned from the families you serve that’s changed you personally?
- For our listeners, how can people get involved or support what Bananas Foster is doing?
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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