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
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.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Beth Guckenberger – Co. Executive Director of Back-2-Back Ministries, author, and adoptive mom. Back2Back Ministries is an international Christian non-profit organization dedicated to being a voice for orphans. We exist to love and care for orphaned and vulnerable children, by meeting their spiritual, physical, educational, emotional and social needs that they might overcome their life circumstances and break free from the cycle of generational poverty.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sharon Dennehy – Mother of 12, 9 adopted internationally and from foster care
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Maria Lester – US Rep for Orphan Voice. Orphan Voice is a Christian, orphan-relief outreach, supporting orphans, children with special needs and children at risk for trafficking and sexual abuse in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Major outreaches include orphan care, special needs therapy, deaf education, sex trafficking rescue and prevention, family preservation, and medical outreach.
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017
Sunday Dec 03, 2017