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Season 3 Episode 8 : Behavior Hacks in Foster Care
Cat & Jack chat about some hacks for handling behaviors that may be caused by the trauma kids in foster care experience, and also children with neurodiversity.
Read MoreSeason 3 Episode 7 : Strong Early Connections in Foster Care
Cat & Jack chat with Andria Peek, a Technical Assistance Specialist with Safe Babies, a program of ZERO TO THREE about strong early connections in foster care and how the Safe Babies approach can optimize them.
Read MoreSeason 3 Episode 4 : Exploitation of Kids In Foster Care
Cat & Jack get down on the nitty gritty of where the line is when it comes to foster children on social media and especially when monetization comes into the scenario.
Read MoreSeason 3 Episode 1 : Brittany Dawn or Brittany Done? in Foster Care
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.
Read MoreSeason 2 Episode 13 : Instant Family Movie Review In Foster Care
Jack & Nichole chat about one of their favorite fostercare and adoption movies – instant family.
Read MoreSeason 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.
Read MoreSeason 2 Episode 3 : Black Single Foster Mom of Teens
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.
Read MoreSeason 2 Episode 2 : Foster The Teens in Foster Care
Jack chats with Brittany, the single fostermom behind the social account “foster the teens”.
Read MoreSeason 1 Episode 34 : Jack’s Former Foster Youth – Meet Smooshie
Jack & Mac chat with Mac’s daughter and Jack’s former foster daughter about what being in foster care was like for her.
Read MoreSeason 1 Episode 33 : The Targeted Child in Foster Care – Meet Brenna
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…
Read MoreSeason 1 Episode 32 : A Merry Foster Family Christmas
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…
Read MoreSeason 1 Episode 19 : Tips for New Foster Parents by Brendale
We received a DM this week from one of our favorite listeners who is about to be licensed, asking for tips on how to better prepare for her first placement. So we asked Brendale (a local foster mom) to help us give her some tips and things that she wish she knew from the jump….
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