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
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.
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Caryn Christensen - PART 2 - Our guest is former foster youth, Caryn Christensen. Caryn returns for Part 2 of her story to share what she has learned through her healing journey from childhood trauma. She again candidly shares about the importance of knowing our identity and building trust.
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 2018
John & Traci Adamson - Virginia adoptive parents, the Adamson's have 6 biological children and 3 children with special needs adopted from Ukraine. Recently they hosted 3 more children from Ukraine and are in process to adopt them too. Join us for their inspirational story.
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Janelle Shelton - Regional Manager for CarePortal in Ohio. Janelle shares several CarePortal stories of impact as 7 churches in her county have utilized CarePortal over the past 3 years.