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
Thursday Apr 26, 2018
Thursday Apr 26, 2018
Chris Campbell - Join us for our conversation with Executive Director of 111Project, as we discuss how CarePortal has impacted foster care in Oklahoma. Listen in and learn how Care Portal benefits children and families in crisis, child welfare, and the Church.
Thursday Apr 12, 2018
Thursday Apr 12, 2018
Chris Carmichael - President of Royal Family Kids. RFK is a nonprofit partnering with local churches to give foster children a week of positive memories and royal treatment in a Christian camp environment. Tune in and hear how a week at camp can change the life of a foster child
Thursday Apr 12, 2018
Thursday Apr 12, 2018
Joe Gerber - Loving Shepherd Ministries - a nonprofit providing vulnerable children with a continuum of care from childhood to adulthood. Hear how they are changing lives in Haiti, Ethiopia and the U.S.
Friday Mar 30, 2018
Friday Mar 30, 2018
Nicki Story - foster and adoptive mom. Nicki is also the co-founder and Executive Director of Project Sparrow - a nonprofit that advocates for and supports foster care children in the state of Maine. Their mission is to see every waiting foster child in a forever family.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Rhonda Baker - Our guest today is a local, single, adoptive mom. Rhonda adopted her 3 year old son, Eli, from China 2 years ago and is in process to adopt a little girl with special needs also from China. Listen in and hear how her church has been a huge support system for Rhonda and her family.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Pastor Rick & Heather Hanna - We're so excited to have the Hanna's of Albany, NY as returning guests. The Hanna's are parents of 3 grown bio kids, 3 children adopted from Korea, and 1 precious little treasure adopted domestically. Join us to hear how they were inspired to adopt a medically fragile child through a crisis pregnancy resource center.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Victoria Charbonneau - cofounder of J127 Ranch in Kazakhstan. J127 Ranch is a nonprofit that works with orphans, single moms and children with special needs. Join us as she shares how a short term missions trip led to her living and serving full time in Kazakhstan.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Rena Vawter - An open-domestic-infant-transracial-adoptive mom, Rena and her husband, Chad, are parents to 5 children through adoption. Listen as she shares about the unique challenges her family faces and the lessons she had learned along the way.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Jasmine Basham - she came into foster care as an infant and was adopted by her foster parents at age 3. She has met some of her biological family and transparently shares the challenges and joys of growing up adopted.
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Thursday Mar 15, 2018
Gloria Cooper - founder & Executive Director of Heart 2 Heart - Hand in Hand International, a nonprofit bringing hearts and hands together to provide hope, stability, and opportunity to empower African communities.