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
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Pastor Jay Francis – Legendary local pastor, adoptive dad & advocate for the vulnerable, I AM International.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Mary Hoyt – adoptive mom, foster parent respite provider and advocate for children at risk.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Ronnie Mosley – Humanitarian Photographer. As a humanitarian photographer he travels the world using images and words to tell the stories of people that are making a difference in the 147,000,000 person global orphan crisis. People who are the hands and feet of Jesus to the least of these.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Elizabeth Occhipinti – adoptive & foster mom, President of Miriam’s Heart and a TBRI Practitioner. The mission of Miriam's Heart is to radically support families who take action on behalf of adopted and foster children.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Ruslan Miliuta – Ukraine Without Orphans. Members have been at work strategizing how to bring different church denominations and organizations together with a unified strategy and vision for taking on the orphan issues in Ukraine. The team from Orphan's Promise in Kiev has had a privilege to play a strategic role and lend its resources for the formation of the Alliance, Ukraine without Orphans.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Wil Crooks – VP of Strategic Partnerships with A Child’s Hope Chest. Children’s HopeChest equips vulnerable children, their families, and communities to empower them to become more self-sustaining and escape the cycle of poverty. They believe, and experience has shown, that holistic transformation in the world’s poorest communities occurs when one community partners with another. A holistic approach to transformation addresses all aspects— the physical, emotional, social, educational, economic, and spiritual — of the children and everyone within a community. Through this proven model, we connect Christian communities in the U.S. and Canada with overseas communities that have orphaned and vulnerable children. HopeChest currently has partnerships in Russia, Swaziland, Ethiopia, Uganda, Guatemala, Moldova, and India.