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
Eric Mills - Oklahoma pastor, adoptive dad, Orphan Sunday Coordinator and President of Faces With Names. Faces With Names exists to serve as a catalyst ministry to engage and equip churches to create the culture of orphan care through foster care, adoption & global orphan care.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Brittany DeVries - Panama City, Panama orphan advocate, film producer and foster mom. In 2012, Brittany produced short documentary Dear Panama, with Voice for the Voiceless and Grassroots News. Dear Panama, was instrumental in lobbying for and passing new legislation (Law 46) related to foster care and adoption in Panama. Residents of Panama since 2008, Brittany and her husband became the first foster family in the nationwide pilot program. In addition to their two foster children, they have two biological children.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Mary Slager - adoptive and foster care mom and Co-founder of Justice for Orphans. Mary ands her husband Stan have adopted 7 children through foster care and internationally from Ukraine. They have 10 grandchildren!
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Carla Dobrovits - Chicago adoptive mother - 6 biological children and 4 adopted from Ukraine. Sits on the Board of Reece's Rainbow. The mission of Reece’s Rainbow is to advocate and find families for orphans with Down syndrome and other special needs by raising funds for adoption grants and promoting awareness through an online community, media communications, and other events.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Dr. Sharon Ford - Program Director of the Adoption and Orphan Care Outreach for Focus on the Family.
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Mike Berry - author, blogger, speaker, adoptive father and former foster parent. Author of the Blog, "Confessions of an Adoptive Parent".
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Marcia Andersen - New York foster & adoptive mom. Trained in Empowered to Connect and Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI®).
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Monday Dec 04, 2017
Salliann Ran – New Jersey foster & adoptive mom and Empowered To Connect parent trainer. 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
Joel Marcaida – foster/adoptive dad, defender & voice of the fatherless in the Philippines