A Fostered Life Podcast

Aug 10 2021 27 ep. 43 mins 45
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Congratulations to A Fostered Life Podcast on being named among FEEDSPOT'S TOP 10 FOSTER CARE PODCASTS YOU MUST FOLLOW in 2020! Host Christy Tennant Krispin explores the various facets of foster care through the voices of people who participate in the system.

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Ep 25: Natalie Vecchione on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD)

Aug 10 2021 61 mins  
Christy Tennant Krispin interviews Natalie Vecchione, co-founder of FASD Hope, about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders.

Ep 24: Dr. Samantha Coleman and Sandria Washington Take Us "Black to the Beginning"

Jul 15 2020 49 mins  
Special Thanks to my Patrons for supporting A Fostered Life! Episode 24 In the non-adoptive world, where people only know of adoption but have not actually lived as part of an adoption story, there is often a romanticization of adoption. Adoption is often sentimentalized and treated as a “happily ever after” story. But anyone living inside of an adoption story knows that adopti

Ep 23: Whitney King - Supporting Families in Crisis Before They Become Families in Crisis

Jul 01 2020 43 mins  
Special Thanks to my Patrons for supporting A Fostered Life! Episode 23 When people think about foster care, we usually imagine children removed from situations where they are being severely abused or neglected by their natural parents. We hear stories in the news about examples of horrific abuse or neglect, and we celebrate that these children have been rescued and placed in a lov

Ep 22: Jason Johnson on the Unique Role of the Foster Father

Jun 20 2020 55 mins  
Special Thanks to my Patrons for supporting A Fostered Life! Episode 22 It’s June, the month when many families celebrate Father’s Day, and in today’s episode, we’re focusing specifically on the role of foster fathers. My guest Jason Johnson is a writer and speaker who encourages families and equips churches in their foster care and adoption journeys. Jason currently serves

Ep 21: Marvin Charles on Reuniting Fathers With Their Children

Jun 19 2020 72 mins  
Special Thanks to my Patrons for supporting A Fostered Life! Episode 21 It’s June, which means that Father’s Day is upon us. For many children in foster care, Father’s Day is a loaded holiday. Some have never met their fathers, if their fathers have even been identified. Others have fathers who are completely “out of the picture,” meaning they are no longer involved or en

Ep 20: Rena Konomis of Project Search and Reunion

May 11 2020 50 mins  
Special Thanks to my Patrons for supporting A Fostered Life! Episode 20 Anyone who is involved with the world of adoption knows that adoption has lifelong implications for everyone involved: birth parents, adoptive parents, and, of course, the people who are adopted from one family into another. Until very recently, adoption was almost always shrouded in secrecy. The link between t

Ep 19 Virtual Visits in Quarantine

Apr 20 2020 37 mins  
Special Thanks to my Patrons for supporting A Fostered Life! Episode 19 You don’t need me to tell you that we are living in unbelievable times. The world is, in many ways, at a stand-still while people are strongly encouraged and even mandated in some places to stay home in order to flatten the curve of the spread of COVID-19. While this time of social distancing is affecting eve

Ep 18 Foster Care for Refugees

Apr 11 2020 48 mins  
Like this podcast? Please rate it on iTunes and become a $1+ patron on Patreon! Click here to learn more. Special Thanks to my Patron for supporting A Fostered Life! Episode 18 When most people think of foster parenting, we think children who are experiencing neglect or abuse being removed from their parents and placed with someone else—either a foster parent or a relative caregi

Ep 17: From Cuddler to CASA

Feb 26 2020 39 mins  
Like this podcast? Please rate it on iTunes and become a $1+ patron on Patreon! Click here to learn more. Special Thanks to my newest Patron, Maureen, for supporting A Fostered Life! Episode 17 I have lost count of the number of times someone has told me that they really want to be involved in foster care, and they really care about foster youth, but they are not in a season of lif

A Listener’s Feedback on Episode 10

Feb 24 2020 9 mins  
A listener shared some really important feedback on my interview with Kevin, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. I thought what she shared was really important and wanted to pass it on. Recorded live at Chicago O’Hare Airport.