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Fostering the Future Podcast

Fostering the Future Podcast

A show about all things child welfare, dependency, adoption and foster care. Your hosts, Jack & Cat are veterans in the world of child welfare and excited to spend a little time each week chatting about how we can all do something to help kids in care.

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Season 4 Episode 19 : EMDR for Behaviors in Foster Care

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2024/07/03

Miranda Hager from Hope Restored Counseling joins Jack to discuss EMDR Therapy and how it can be an incredible solution for behaviors caused by trauma, especially for kids in foster care and those that work in child welfare. When we last spoke with Miranda, she was working for the local CAC (child advocacy center) as...

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Season 4 Episode 15 : Crisis in Georgia – The...

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2024/06/18

Diana and Corey Sullivan met in 6th grade and started dating in 8th grade. Married by 21, they immediately started trying to have children. When it didn’t work out they turned to fertility doctors and ended up conceiving their first child the first time they tried IVF. In hopes of providing their daughter with a...

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Season 4 Episode 12 : ABA for Behaviors in Foster Care

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2024/06/04

Samantha Haskins, a BCBA in Tampa Bay, Florida, chats with Jack about the use of ABA services for behaviors. While ABA is only covered by insurance for children with specific developmental disabilities, it can be effective for children with trauma as well. Sam explains the science of ABA, the process of ABA services, how it...

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The Hernandez Story – Coparenting & Breastfeeding

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2024/04/25

A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how the agency who trained her to coparent had great concerns when she tried to coparent, and also how the agency would take Taki’s breastmilk and dispose of it without giving it to her child or informing her that they would not...

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The Hernandez Story – Input from A Supervising Therapist

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2024/04/24

A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how a therapist supervising Matt Hernandez visits exclaimed that he is a perfect parent and she has no concerns for him. She also found it odd that noone told her any issues to watch for with Matt, despite him being indicted by...

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The Hernandez Story – The Lies

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2024/04/23

A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how the agency would force Matt to lie about why Taki was not present at visits to the girls, and how the agency lied in court about vetting relatives and fictive kin for placement.

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Season 4 Episode 4 : Crisis in Georgia – The...

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2024/04/22

Jack & Christy chat with Jennifer. A fostermom in Georgia who is helping the Hernandez family and many other families going through similar stories of medical abuse of power. Matt & Taki Hernandez noticed a swollen leg on their infant and brought her to the dr who referred her to CHOA and within two hours...

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Season 4 Episode 2 : Trauma Behaviors in Foster Care

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2024/04/10

Jack chats with Kathy & Shayna about the types of behaviors that we seen in foster care due to the trauma the children have experiences. This is the first episode of a series about behaviors where we will investigate the root of the behaviors, how they may come out, and how to help them.

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Season 3 Episode 24 : Maya Kowalski’s Story of...

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2023/11/17

Jack & Lynn chat about the Maya Kowalski case, as documented in Take Care of Maya and the recent televised trial.

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Season 3 Episode 6 : Adoption

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2023/04/25

Jack, Nichole, & special guest Coryn discuss the various avenues of adoption, including: international adoption; domestic private adoption, foster care waiting child adoption, or adoption of a foster child who was unable to be reunified.

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Happy Easter

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2023/04/14

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Season 3 Episode 2 : Brittany Dawn Update in Foster Care

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2023/03/21

Jack & Cat are back for more Brittany Dawn snarking in episode 2. Join us in a short update on the trial and latest placement news for Brittany Dawn

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Season 3 Episode 1 : Brittany Dawn or Brittany Done?...

Fostering the Future Podcast ·

2023/03/12

Jack & Cat discuss the Brittany Dawn scandals and their suitability to be foster parents. From police brutality of a black man, to scamming people suffering from eating disorders, and of course the lack of true accountability – it is a worrying question.

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Season 2 Episode 12 : Sisco’s Adoption after 70+...

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2022/05/24

Nichole & Jack chat with nichole’s teen son Sisco about his time in foster care group homes after 4+ years and 70+ foster homes.

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Season 2 Episode 11 : Lucas and Looking on the Bright...

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2022/04/26

TW: Child Abuse in foster careJack & Nichole & Jack Jr, chat with Nichole’s son Lucas who discusses being abused in foster care, and shares his sweet optimism and resilience.

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Season 2 Episode 10 : Grow Into You for Aged Out Kids...

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2022/04/19

Jack & Nichole chat with Erin NeSmith from Grow Into You Foundation for aged out kids in foster care.

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Season 2 Episode 9 Outtake

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2022/04/13

We mentioned a Starbucks Christmas drink in episode 9 and later looked up what it was called (Juniper Latte), we were cracking up reading this article about it. While it didn’t make the cut for the episode – we figured we would share the description of this Starbucks Juniper Latte in a bonus episode.

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Season 2 Episode 9 : Turning the Tables with Teens in...

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2022/04/12

Jack & Nichole sit with Papo and chat with him about his experience growing up in the foster care system in Philadelphia and how he turned the table by helping teens in foster care by working in a group home and connecting with the kids through his own foster experiences.

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Season 2 Episode 3 : Black Single Foster Mom of Teens

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2022/03/01

Jack chats with Ryan, a black single foster mom who can be found on instagram as @black_single_foster_mom about becoming a foster parent during a pandemic, race dynamics, and fostering teens as a single mom.

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Season 2 Episode 2 : Foster The Teens in Foster Care

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2022/02/22

Jack chats with Brittany, the single fostermom behind the social account “foster the teens”.

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