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 Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Aaron Clayton – Texas Pastor & adoptive dad and ETC Parent Trainer – PART 1. Empowered To Connect (ETC) Parent Training is an interactive learning experience designed specifically for adoptive and foster parents.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monica Gerber – Texas adoptive mom with 2 internationally adopted kids & 2 domestic adopted kids.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Ellen Jackson & Megan Hershey – Last Bell Ministries. Loving and restoring orphanage graduates toward life and community is the mission of Last Bell Ministries. Their vision is to see the end of the generational orphanage cycle in Zhytomyr, Ukraine.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monica Woodhouse – Exectutive Director of Give A Child A Family. The vision of Give a Child a Family is to see children in secure families. Their mission is to protect children by placing their best interest at the centre of all GCF programs. They provide communities and organizations with skills and competencies to ensure a nurturing and safe environment for children. They promote temporary safe care for orphaned and vulnerable children with a focus on family based care as an alternative to long term institutionalization and they pursue a commitment to be a quality service provider, capacity builder and mentor, innovator and agent of change.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Christina De Santis – Director of Communications & Strategy at Co-Mission and World Without Orphans. World Without Orphans (WWO) is a global Christian movement that promotes family-based care and assists national grassroots initiatives. CoMission helped to launch and contributes to the leadership of WWO, which joins the efforts of a wide array of organizations, churches, and individuals who are working together through informal partnership.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Peggy King – Volunteer Director of Program Excellence for Orphanetwork of Nicaragua. Through innovation and creativity, they are breaking the cycle of poverty for orphaned, abandoned, abused and vulnerable children in Nicaragua.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Elizabeth Styffe – adoptive mom and Director of the Orphan Care Initiative at Saddleback Church, CA
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Jamie C -New Jersey foster & adoptive mom and blogger at Foster The Family Blog; One mom's light-hearted musings and heavier broodings on foster care, gospel-centered parenting, and mission-focused family.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017