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
Sandra Flach – Executive Director of Justice For Orphans & Empowered To Connect Parent Trainer. Empowered To Connect (ETC) Parent Training is an interactive learning experience designed specifically for adoptive and foster parents. ETC Parent Training equips parents with a holistic understanding of their child’s needs and development while empowering them with the tools and strategies to effectively meet those needs, build trust, and help their child heal and grow. The training is taught from a Christian perspective and focuses on a wide range of topics and issues relevant to adoptive and foster parents, including helping parents understand the impact of their child’s history, what they themselves bring to the parent-child relationship, the fundamentals of attachment, the impact of fear, and the importance of meeting their child’s sensory processing, nutritional and other physiological needs.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Pam Parish - Foster and Adoptive mom, Founder and President of Connections Homes. Mother of seven girls and grandmother to four spunky grandchildren. Foster Care and Adoption Advocate. Author of the Ready or Not Devotional series for foster and adoptive families. Founder and President of Connections Homes, an Atlanta-based organization working with young adults who've aged out of foster care, are homeless or otherwise without family.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Karen Springs – Eastern Europe/Central Asia Project Manager for Orphans’s Promise in Ukraine. They partner with local outreaches around the world to provide holistic care to help orphaned and vulnerable children reach their highest potential.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Anton Putilin – adoptive dad, director of Light House ministry in Kyrgyzstan
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Pastor Fred & Ruth Alimet – International Orphan Care Uganda: Bless A Child Uganda. Bless A Child is a registered Community Based Organization in Obule, Uganda. The vision ofBless A Child is a transformed community where orphaned children know their identity in Christ, and have the ability to provide emotional, educational, and spiritual support for their families in the future because of the education, love, and guidance they received.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Chelsea Elizabeth – Program Director for Africa & Asia at A Family For Every Orphan. A Family for Every Orphan helps orphans find loving Christian families in their home countries.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Pastor George Abaidoo – Assemblies of God pastor & National Coordinator for Ghana Without Orphans. Ghana Without Orphans (GWO) is an offshoot of World Without Orphans, (WWO) born out of the understanding of God’s heart for orphans and His command in Scripture to take care of them.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Rebecca Vahle – Adoptive mom & Executive Director of Family To Family Support Network. Family to Family Support Network is a pro-education, non-profit organization that partners with hospital professionals and community organizations to better serve families throughout pregnancy and post-delivery.