Trauma, grief, loss, and uncertainty can make what is meant to be a joy-filled season, a sometimes triggering and painful one. Our friends Dan and Hope from Hope & Healing Child and Family Counseling share insight into why this happens, what it can look like, and how to help ease and prepare for these moments.

People can choose to adopt to build their families. Others become foster parents and provide permanent homes for children who can’t reunify with their families.

Whatever the reasons foster-adoptive parents Ryan and Suzie-Marie McCorriston learned being a foster parent changes your perspective forever. Join them, along with foster-adoptive mom Amy Bates, as they share their adoption stories.

Foster parents are encouraged in our classes to interact with relatives of the children in their care. But how do you handle that relationship and why is it important? Hear from a kinship provider, who’s also been a foster parent and from a representative of Utah’s Kinship Coalition.

Guests: Kinship provider and former foster mom Jeanie Pettit and Bacall Hincks, Grandfamilies Program Director for Children’s Service Society of Utah