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 05, 2018
Monday Nov 05, 2018
Monday Nov 05, 2018
Monday Nov 05, 2018
Jean Singleton - Our guest today is local realtor and volunteer ambassador for JFO & CarePortal. Jean will share why she is so passionate about launching CarePortal in the Capital Region and how it will impact the foster care system here in NY.
Monday Nov 05, 2018
Monday Nov 05, 2018
Kathleen Guire - an adoptive mom, author, speaker & teacher. We will be discussing her book 25 Days of Thriving Through Christmas - An Advent Devotional for Adoptive & Foster Parents.
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Cady Driver - Adoptive mom and professional artist. Cady and her husband are parents to 3 bio teens and 1 precious little guy with Down Syndrome, Lian, whom they adopted from China. Hear how Lian is the joy of their lives and how Cady uses her artistic gifts to help raise funds for adoptions.
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Thursday Oct 18, 2018
Tara Anderson - is a MD adoptive mom. Tara and her husband are parents to 3 homegrown kids and 4 "Latvian Loves" - a sibling group they adopted from Latvia. Tune in and hear how 1 Orphan Sunday event changed their lives.
Friday Sep 28, 2018
Friday Sep 28, 2018
Kim de Blecourt - An adoptive mom and author. Kim recently released her book, I Call You Mine - Embracing God's Gift of Adoption. We discuss this 6 week Bible Study created for foster and adoptive parents.
Friday Sep 28, 2018
Friday Sep 28, 2018
Sandra Flach - Regional Manager of CarePortal NY explains the Why, Who, How & You of CarePortal as JFO prepares to launch CarePortal in the Capital Region this month.
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Colleen Vogel - Director of Recruitment & Retention of Foster Care for Northern Rivers Family of Services. Northern Rivers covers 19 NY counties and is the parent company to Parsons and Northeast Parent and Child. If you are interested in becoming a foster parent this episode is for you!
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
Sarah Sebast - A local, single foster & adoptive mom shares her story of why she became a foster parent and what led to her adoption of 5 children.
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Saturday Sep 15, 2018
Andy Cook - adoptive dad and CEO of Promise 686 - a family advocacy ministry on a mission to mobilize and serve churches and families to meet the needs of orphans and foster children.