Host Sandra Flach is a mom of 8 children, 5 through adoption—one kinship and 4 international. Her youngest 2 are teens diagnosed with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). With over 30 years of parenting experience and 20 plus years as an adoptive and kinship parent, she’s made mountains of mistakes and learned loads of lessons. She understands the difficult road of parenting children with trauma histories—and she is still in the trenches! The Adoption & Foster Care Journey is a podcast to encourage, educate, and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care, and kinship care. We aim to support adoptive and foster families by sharing encouraging real-life stories and equipping them with modern-day research and parenting techniques.
Episodes
Monday Nov 08, 2021
Monday Nov 08, 2021
"Whenever you are able, do good to people who need help." Proverb 3:27
November is National Adoption Awareness Month. To celebrate, all of our November episodes are adoption focused.
This week we will be talking about the forgotten adoption option—adopting through the foster care system with adoptive mom, Marcy Bursac. Marcy and her husband adopted two children through foster care. She is also the author of The Forgotten Adoption Option—A Self Reflection and How-to-Guide for Pursuing Foster Care Adoption.
Listen in as host Sandra Flach talks with Marcy Bursac about how to navigate adopting through the foster care system.
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Monday Nov 01, 2021
Monday Nov 01, 2021
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families… Psalm 68:5-6
November is National Adoption Awareness Month. To celebrate, all of our November episodes will be adoption focused.
To kick off adoption month, we are also celebrating the 20th observance of Orphan & Stand Sunday. Orphan Sunday is an initiative of Christian Alliance For Orphans (CAFO). It is a day for the Church to stand in the gap for orphans, kids in foster care, and vulnerable children. To date, Orphan Sunday has been observed in 120 nations around the world.
Join host, Sandra Flach, along with adoptive mom and International Director for Orphan Sunday, Jodi Jackson Tucker, as they share their favorite stories and most memorable miracles from the past 20 years.
This year Orphan Sunday will be observed on November 7, 2021. To learn more visit OrphanSunday.org.
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Monday Oct 25, 2021
Monday Oct 25, 2021
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families… Psalm 68:5-6
This week our Orphans No More podcast takes us across the pond. Host Sandra Flach talks with adult adoptee, Simon Benn—host of the Thriving Adoptees podcast.
Listen in as Simon shares how he navigates the ups and downs of life as an adoptee and why every child needs to know they are precious.
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Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
Tuesday Oct 19, 2021
And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for al the Lord’s people. Ephesians 6:18
This week on our Orphans No More podcast, host Sandra Flach interviews a very special guest—her son, Slava. Listen in as Slava, a teen with an FASD, shares about homeschooling and his new puppy.
Sandra closes the episode praying for adoptive, foster and kinship care families, especially those parenting children with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
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Monday Oct 11, 2021
Monday Oct 11, 2021
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Galatians 4:4-5
When Ed Stolle and his wife decided to step out in faith and adopt a little girl, they had no idea the wait would last five years. What sustained them through that time? And what was it like to finally bring home their baby girl? Find out on episode 294 of our Orphans No More podcast.
Listen in as host Sandra Flach talks with Ed about adoption and what he learned from saying yes to God.
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Monday Oct 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28
Tracey Glenn is a child of God, adoptive mom, author, and co-founder of Caring Connections for Special Needs LLC. She has a heart for God, kids, and all God’s creatures.
Listen in as Sandra Flach, host of our Orphans No More podcast, chats with Tracey about her adoption journey and her soon to be released book, Gathering the Wayward Heart.
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Monday Sep 27, 2021
Monday Sep 27, 2021
Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.” Mark 12:41-44
In honor of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month, FASD is spotlighted on all of our September episodes. This last show in the series features host and adoptive mom Sandra Flach sharing from her family’s experience and closes in prayer for your family.
Listen in as Sandra shares about homeschooling and other sacrifices adoptive and foster families make—especially those caring for children prenatally exposed to alcohol.
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Monday Sep 20, 2021
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-9
In honor of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month we continue our month-long spotlight on FASD with adoptive mom and FASD advocate, Jenn Wisdahl.
Jenn became an adoptive mom while living in Canada where her family received lots of support services. But after moving to Washington State, she discovered a lack of FASD awareness and supports. This experience set her on a path to become a fierce parent advocate. Today, Jenn is the driver behind the FASD Respect Act.
Join us for our Orphans No More Podcast as host, Sandra Flach, talks with Jenn Wisdahl about the symptoms of FASD, parenting strategies, and the FASD Respect Act.
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FASD Respect Act FaceBook Group
Monday Sep 13, 2021
Monday Sep 13, 2021
"Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." -Philippians 3:13-14
In honor of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month we continue our month-long spotlight on FASD with adoptive mom and marriage and family therapist, Chris Troutt.
As is a mom of 12 children—6 through adoption, Chris came face to face with childhood trauma and the impacts of FASD. Her family experienced isolation and struggled from a lack of support. That experience led Chris to establish The Papillion Center—a faith-based nonprofit therapeutic center utilizing different techniques to bring about hope and healing to children and families in hard places.
Tune in as host, Sandra Flach, talks with Chris Troutt about the challenges families in hard places face and how they can find hope and healing.
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Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
In honor of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Month we continue our month-long spotlight on FASD with foster and adoptive mom, Shannon Iacobacci. Shannon is an FASD educator, certified facilitator, disability advocate, family coach, and board chair of FASCETS.
As a parent of four children diagnosed with an FASD, Shannon shares the challenges her family faced and the lack of training and supports they received from the foster care system. Listen in as Shannon describes the life-changing training she received through FASCETS and how it not only helped her family but equipped her to help other families also.
Tune in as host, Sandra Flach, talks with Shannon about understanding neurodiversity and parenting children with brain-based disabilities—such as FASD.
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Shannon Iacobacci - on Facebook
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