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 kidsWrapping 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 the mi...

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kidsIn 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 extend...

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kidsIn 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 trans...

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kidsIn 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 speak fra...

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kidsIn 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 of trauma...

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kidsIn our first season, we focus on an oft overlooked part of the US Foster Care system - Transitions. Today we talk to a fellow foster parent - Liz -who has been a foster parent for several children. She's had some very traumatic experiences, but has always fought for the best interests of the kids in her care. She is now an advocate for better transition practices in t...

Married couple, Marika & Kurt chat about the many perspectives in foster care and the ways we can all do better by our kidsIn our first season, we focus on an oft overlooked part of the US Foster Care system - Transitions. We start our first interview today with the most important person in Foster Care - the kids. Jean is a FFY (former foster youth - she's an adult now) who went into the system at age 9. We talk with her about her experience and how it has affected her life. We ...

Welcome to 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 In our first season, we focus on an oft overlooked part of the US Foster Care system - Transitions. Transitions for kids between homes in the foster care system. Or, it could be from a foster family back to birth family, or from a foster family to a permanent adoptive family - and all the options in between.Join our ver...