foster care

Season 2 Episode 7 : Lifehacks for Foster Parents

Nichole and Jack share the lifehacks for foster parents that listeners sent in to help us all get more organized.

Season 2 Episode 6 : A Trauma Informed Courtroom in Foster Care – Meet Judge Lynn Tepper – Part 3/3

March 22, 2022 30:48

Cat, Jack, & Nichole continue their chat with Sr Retired Judge Lynn Tepper about her experiences in the courtroom and her evolution to creating a trauma informed courtroom. If you have not yet listened to part 1 and 2, we recommend you listen to those episodes before this episode.

Season 2 Episode 5 : A Trauma Informed Courtroom in Foster Care – Meet Judge Lynn Tepper – Part 2/3

March 15, 2022 46:41

Cat, Jack, & Nichole continue their chat with Sr Retired Judge Lynn Tepper about her experiences in the courtroom and her evolution to creating a trauma informed courtroom. If you have not yet listened to part 1, we recommend you listen to that episodes before this episode.

Season 2 Episode 4 : A Trauma Informed Courtroom in Foster Care – Meet Judge Tepper

March 8, 2022 50:53

Cat, Jack, & Nichole chat with Sr Retired Judge Lynn Tepper about her experiences in the courtroom and her evolution to creating a trauma informed courtroom. Stay tuned to next week for part 2

Season 2 Episode 3 : Black Single Foster Mom of Teens

March 1, 2022 49:05

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.

Season 2 Episode 2 : Foster The Teens in Foster Care

February 22, 2022 45:07

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

Season 2 Episode 1 : Meet The Hosts… Again

February 15, 2022 32:00

Now that we have dragged a couple special hosts into our equation and are starting a new season – we are excited to spend some time letting you get to know all of us a little better.

Season 1 Episode 36 : Understanding Judges in Foster Care – Meet Luke

February 8, 2022 35:43

Jack & Cat sit with Judge Luke to get a better understanding of the role of a judge in dependency and foster care.

Season 1 Episode 35 : Breathwork in Foster Care

February 1, 2022 47:42

Jack and Brenna (from episode 33) talk about how breathwork and yoga can help build resiliency to heal and withstand trauma.

Season 1 Episode 34 : Jack’s Former Foster Youth – Meet Smooshie

November 30, 2021 16:55

Jack & Mac chat with Mac’s daughter and Jack’s former foster daughter about what being in foster care was like for her.

Season 1 Episode 33 : The Targeted Child in Foster Care – Meet Brenna

November 23, 2021 1:02:52

Cat, Jack, and Nichole sit with Brenna to discuss her history as the targeted abused child in her biological home, going through the dependency system in New Jersey, and what it looked like to travel the path of abuse report to signed surrender paperwork. We were recently chosen as one of the Top 20 Foster…

Season 1 Episode 32 : A Merry Foster Family Christmas

November 9, 2021 29:48

Jack (fostermom) & Nichole (fostermom & gal) chat about ways to make Christmas easier on children who are in foster care and away from their families. Here are some ideas: Ask them and their family about any traditions they have and see what you can implement in your home so they don’t miss it, and…

Season 1 Episode 31 : DCF Cancels CBC

November 8, 2021 58:56

Nichole (fostermom & gal) & Jack (fostermom) sit and chat about local events concerning the state DCF cancelling the contract of the local CBC and the sheriff’s department opening a criminal investigation into the CBC. The community is anxiously awaiting information about what will happen in the next 60 days while we wait for DCF…

Season 1 Episode 30 : The Generational Cycle of Foster Care – Meet Ellie

November 2, 2021 1:00:12

Cat (Therapist) & Jack (Fostermom) talk to Ellie (a former foster youth) who has recently reunified with her son who was removed from her care and placed in foster care. Ellie had to overcome so many obstacles, including addiction, domestic violence, raising a son with special needs (autism), and learning how to advocate for herself….

Season 1 Episode 29 : Against All Odds in Foster Care – Meet Madeleine

October 26, 2021 42:56

Mac (biomom) & Jack (fostermom) sit with Madeleine (former foster youth) and discuss her experience in the foster care system. Madeleine lived in group homes and bounced around until a therapeutic group home allowed her to move in with a relative. After a failed permanent guardianship situation, she still beat the odds and graduated high…

Season 1 Episode 28 : From Foster Care to Masters Level Social Worker – Meet Marissa

October 19, 2021 1:00:56

Jack & Nichole sit with former foster youth and current social worker, Marissa to talk about her experience as a child in the system. Marissa was removed from her relative caregiver when she was 13 years old, sent to another relative, and then reunified with her primary caregiver, only for the problems to recur. Marissa…

Season 1 Episode 27 : Pathway to Permanency in Foster Care

October 12, 2021 1:08:27

Jack & Guest Host Nichole join Marissa (former foster youth and masters social worker) to walk the path of foster care from the viewpoint of a foster child. Experience of a Child in Foster Care Child experiences a trauma of abuse or neglect Police show up and child is questioned if possible Life goes on…