Conversations About Foster Care

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kids Wrapping up our thoughts for our first season, focusing on an oft overlooked part of the US Foster Care system - Transitions. It's been half a year since we sat down to record a new episode, but we have an excuse: COVID-19! Damn you COVID!!! We have two new kiddos in our care. Dragging them through home-schooling, trying to support their trauma and grief in ...

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kids In our first season, we focus on an oft overlooked part of the US Foster Care system - Transitions. So far we have spoken to FFY, fellow foster parents and explored different examples of how a transition from one home to another can negatively or positively impact a child in foster care. Now we indulge a little, turning the focus back to us, and how our own ...

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kids In our first season, we focus on an oft overlooked part of the US Foster Care system - Transitions. This episode is the most important episode of our first season. Because this episode is what a successful transition can look like. Join Kurt as he sits down with friend and fellow former foster parent, Jennifer, so she can tell the story of how her foster daughter...

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kids In our first season, we focus on an oft overlooked part of the US Foster Care system - Transitions. John & Brian adopted their daughter through foster care, but not before she underwent several transitions - which resulted in ongoing trauma. Join us for an interview in which John and Brian detail the massive changes their daughter had to process, and spe...

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kids In our first season, we focus on an oft overlooked part of the US Foster Care system - Transitions. This episode is one of the reasons we felt the need to make this podcast... How do you actually transition a child out of your home and into another? What do you pack? What do you say? How can you make this big change for a young person clear, loving and free o...