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The first Podcast dedicated to Kinship Care ran by Kinship Carers Liverpool. Please have a listen and share to all other Kinship groups. For more information please go to our website athttps://kinshipcarersliverpool.co.uk/Follow us on Facebook (Kinship Care Liverpool) Twitter (KinshipLpool) and Instagram (Kinshipcareliverpool) Enjoy and remember You Are Not Alone.
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Are you thinking about adopting or fostering a child? Confused about all the options and wondering where to begin? Or are you an adoptive or foster parent or kinship caregiver trying to be the best parent possible to this precious child? This is the podcast for you! Every week, we interview leading experts for an hour, discussing the topics you care about in deciding whether to adopt/foster or how to be a better parent. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are the national ...
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The Here to Help Podcast

Laura - Foster Parent Partner

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Practical support and tips for foster parents, kinship providers, and child welfare professionals, as told by those with lived experiences, nonprofits, and professionals on the ground, helping kids and families impacted by foster care.
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Though we were meant to walk side by side in deep relationships with church family, the disconnect we feel can be crippling. We’re four church sisters that share our discussions so that you’re encouraged to deepen relationships through meaningful conversation in your local church.
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Worldbuilding Blueprints

Marie M. Mullany from Just In Time Worlds

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Worldbuilding Blueprints is brought to you by Just In Time Worlds! This podcast aims to guide you through step by step world building. Each season of the podcast will close out with a book that collects the information of the podcast as well as a series of worksheets in one easy to digest and use resource.
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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 ...
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Bonus Babies

Jayne Amelia Larson

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The BONUS BABIES podcast is the only one of its kind that features the compelling true-life hard-hitting stories of those with a lived foster care experience and the people who care for them––all via the unique 360* lens of a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer. Through raw first-hand accounts, BONUS BABIES reveals the daunting complexity of the foster care world while documenting the challenges, failures and successes of the system as well as the people and the agencies involv ...
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This is one of the pioneering podcasts on intercountry adoptees. Started in 2016, Adapted Podcast has interviewed more than 130 Korean intercountry adoptees on their lived experiences. The podcast started as a Fulbright research project in Korea and has been now downloaded more than 100,000 times around the world.
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Hi I'm Cassie Burton and I haved lived with anxiety my whole life. The slow burn, constant hyper-vigilant kind of anxiety, always on high alert, high energy, moving a hundred miles an hour to stay in front of whatever my mind thought was chasing me. Turns out nothing is chasing me and my anxiety stems from childhood trauma. Did you know, anxiety, over time, can create some pretty serious health issues? And that's why I'm on a mission is to explore and share ways to manage, soothe and underst ...
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FASD Family Life podcast is where we get REAL about raising children and youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Host and FASD Educator, Robbie Seale, synergizes her 20 years lived experience, in-depth knowledge of FASD and the best research to educate, encourage, equip parents and caregivers raising children and youth with FASD. Robbie's passion is to help families thrive, because she knows the struggle is real and so is success. Weekly episodes of FASD Family Life discuss the challenge ...
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Java folklore or in Indonesia is called a dongeng, is a story that comes from Indonesian society which is told by word of mouth since ancient times until today. These stories generally have local wisdom values ​​that are closely related to the occurrence of things such as events, incidents, and so on. This local wisdom is usually reflected in the arts, livelihoods, language, kinship, technology and natural knowledge. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/javafolklore/ ...
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Young heroes bound in love and kinship are forced on a quest to discover the truth behind the magic of dragons and seek those that stole it, before their world itself is destroyed by the growing power of the Dark Army.. Raised by former knights in hiding, they have grown up taking on different skills, each one unique and valuable to each other. Not only use of magic or mastery of a sword they are also tied to a great destiny. A destiny foretold in lost tomes they have yet to discover, but th ...
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Sacred and Profane

Pam Rocker and Roberto Che Espinoza

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Sacred and Profane: Bending the Binaries of Faith , is a podcast bringing queer and faith perspectives to the ordinary and extraordinary topics that are threaded through our lives. Pam Rocker and Roberto Che Espinoza spend a lot of time in the public square talking about faith, religion, LGBTQ+ stuff, and queer possibility, fused together with comedy. Pam and Roberto are kindred spirits and Texans who are immersed in activist and spiritual movements. Sacred and Profane puts the elements of s ...
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In this video/podcast Director of Kinship Carers Victoria, Anne McLeish, and lawyer Fleur Ward talk about the complex and vexed issue of family reunification for carer families. They speak in detail about the reunification provisions in the Children, Youth and Families Act (Vic) and how the current one-size-fits-all foundation of these provisions c…
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Send us a Text Message. To quote The Rock “ Finally!!!” After 14 long years of Conservatives being charge I talk about Labour sweeping into power and all the hope that there is that this will mean change will happen. It is also great that Lib Dem MP Munira Wilson who is such an advocate of Kisnhip Care won her seat too. Lots of positives for things…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: We are planning to adopt our third child. We have reason to believe that my husband’s parents will oppose this idea. Do you have any advice on how to approach them? Resources: Transitioning Your Child to Your Home Winning Over Reluctant Extended Family to Your Adoption Plans Sibling Rel…
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Send us a Text Message. Join Marie in discussing how to create a cultural framework, ideology and norms. My website: World Building | Marie Mullany Writing My Amazon Profile: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marie-Mullany/author/B099QJMV6C Join the YouTube Channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvBH0EkwuHsQ9ryHHQNi2Q/join Support the Show.…
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Benedict and Kharne tread into the frozen northern Shattered Lands where twilight magic that blends the chaos of the shattered fey rules the land. Haunted by visions they plow through the wind and snow to find the Ulfric the brother of the Sage who helped Benedict escape, with a final gift to save the people of Wolfling. BENEDICT - Brian Dowling KH…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Join us for this discussion with Dr. Gretchen Sisson, the author of Relinquished, the Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood. In this episode, we cover: Book focuses on private adoptions between 2000-2020. Not on parents where parental rights were terminated by the state an…
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"Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” “No one, sir,” she said. “Then neither do I condemn you,” Jesus declared. “Go now and leave your life of sin.” -John 8:10-11 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis through adopt…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Prior to Russia invading Ukraine, it was possible to adopt from Ukraine. In fact, depending on the year, it was one of the top 10 placing countries to the US. However, the government of Ukraine has said that intercountry adoption will not fully resume while martial law is in place. However, the g…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Join this interview with Dr. JaeRan Kim, an adoption researcher who also blogs at Harlow's Monkey. In this episode, we cover: Research: Intercountry adoptees with adoption disruption and displacement histories – Adoptee perspectives Korean adoptees as parents Adoptees who adopt Transracially adop…
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"Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me." Psalm 27:10 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care. On this episode, host Sandra Flach, talks with Marina Carrier. Marina lived through early trauma as…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Summer break is just around the corner for families of school-aged children – whether you are ready or not. You may already be planning your annual vacation, buying pool passes, and buying tickets online for local venues to enjoy together as a family. However, you may also dread your child’s hour…
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Korean adoptee Delight Roberts, 52, talks about marrying into a Korean-American family and the challenges and benefits that provided her. Some were surprising – like table eating etiquette – but all of Roberts’ experiences from childhood bullying to having future in-laws who didn’t approve of her because she is adopted, have strengthened Roberts’ r…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Join this inspiring discussion with two former foster youths who talk about their time in foster care and how that experience shaped them. Lanitta was a pregnant and parenting teen growing up in the North Carolina foster care system. In May of 2022, she joined the 2% population of former foster y…
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"You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you." -Isaiah 26:3 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care. Throughout the month of June, we’re focusing on dads! This week we’re talking w…
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In this podcast, director of Grandparents Victoria and Kinship Carers Victoria Ann McLeish speaks with Trevor Cobbold, national convener of Save our Schools. Before retiring, Trevor was an economist with the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission and its predecessors for over 30 years. Trevor talks us through the economic and structural in…
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Send us a Text Message. Kinship Carers Liverpool will be part of Pride in Liverpool on 27th July 2024 and so this is just to let you know about this very important event and what we will be doing. For more information ask in the Wednesday Coffee Morning, through WhatsApp or any other way. For more information on Pride Liverpool go here. https://pri…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. A Lifebook is the story of how your child came to be yours and the story of his life before he came to you. Adoption is only one aspect of your child, and at some point, his life merges into your life. However, he had a life before he came to your family, and his Lifebook tells this part of his s…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you considering adopting internationally. If so, you really should listen to this interview with the great Dr. Dana Johnson, MD, PhD. He is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Dr. Johnson founded the International Adoption Cl…
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"For you know how, like a father with his children, we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into His own kingdom and glory." -1 Thessalonians 2:11-12 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis throu…
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Send us a Text Message. Join Marie in discussing how magic and technology affect the daily lives of your characters. Link to the tech calculator: Tech Calculator | Marie Mullany My website: World Building | Marie Mullany Writing My Amazon Profile: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marie-Mullany/author/B099QJMV6C Join the YouTube Channel! https://www.yo…
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Send us a Text Message. In case you hadn’t noticed there is a general election coming up on 4th of JULY and so this is a chance for all Kinship Carers and any Kinship Kids who have just turned 18 to vote and make real change. Politics and parties aside I urge everyone to take the time to go and vote and make your voice heard. If you have not regist…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: We’re 5 years in trying to conceive and I’m TIRED. I have an opportunity to adopt an unborn baby girl. My question is, does it get any easier dealing with the infertility, the failure, the empty feeling? Does your heart stop breaking every month when you know you’re not pregnant? I’m so…
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Wyatt Tuell, 45, is a Korean-American adoptee who was raised outside Omaha, Nebraska with a Korean immigrant adoptive mother and a white American adoptive father who was much older than his mother. Growing up in the 80s, Wyatt often felt different from his white school peers around him and was sometimes teased for being Korean. At home, his family …
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Join us to talk with Cam Lee Small about his new book, The Adoptee's Journey: From Loss and Trauma to Healing and Empowerment. In this episode, we talk about: You wrote this book for Christian adoptees. Why that specific audience? Adoptees have been objectified, scrutinized, and infantized. Can y…
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"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." -Galatians 2:20 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foste…
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Vix, Vash and Zorin enter the enchanted world of Viridian, a land saturated in the chaotic wonder of the Fey. Seeking allies they find they arent the only ones seeking help. Thanks to our patrons, supporters and cast for keeping the story going! Patrons: Derek Kunz, Ryan Donnelly, JD Rose, Return2Sender, Brian Dowling, Corey Pfautsch, Daniel Nichol…
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Send us a Text Message. “You don’t know what you don't know” seems to be very prevalent for Kinship Carers. How often have you overheard someone talking to think “Hey I didn’t know that” or more importantly “Why didn’t anyone tell me that?” This episode looks at knowledge and learning and how we can’t know everything, but if we embrace all our tool…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: Hello! I’ve been listening to the podcast for a little while now as I consider my desire to adopt. I’ve had many models around me who adopted their children, and although the process is difficult, I have a desire to provide a home to children in need. It seems like now adoptions are dec…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you want to help your adopted or foster child work through the big issues they may face in life? Join our discussion of the seven core issues with Allison Davis Maxon, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She is the co-author of Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency, The Seven Core…
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"Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." 1 Corinthians 13:7 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you to care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care. On this week’s episode host Sandra Flach talks with Todd an…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you in infertility treatment but possibly considering adoption? Dawn outlines what couples may be considering, which indicates they are ready to consider adoption. Resources: Parenting After Infertility Types of Adoption Affording Adoption This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. …
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Send us a Text Message. How difficult is it to manage your time? Do you give yourself any time or do you think you should always be on the go? Do you ever feel guilty about doing something for you? STOP This episode looks at managing your time, taking time out for yourself and being selfish. Everyone deserves time for themselves so maybe we just ne…
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Kit Myers, 42, is a transracial Hong Kong adoptee and assistant professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Merced. In this interview, we talk about Myers' search for his birth mother and feelings he's had of having a 'ghostly' or ambiguous kinship with someone he doesn't know. We also talk about his upcoming imp…
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Send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Join us to talk with Dr. Kimberly McKee about her book, Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood. In this episode, we cover: This book explores how Asian women and girls, specifically Asian adoptees in the US, negotiate the sensationalism and fictional po…
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