The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

This month, we’re exploring what it means to work with hope, recognising that hope is not the absence of difficulty. 

We talk about getting curious that things can change, noticing the little wins that are so easy to miss, and remembering that we have the power to influence, in our families, in our relationships and in the systems around us.

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In a slightly unusual episode Al heads off to Central London to the Breeze Film Festival to watch the Gala screening of the documentary Love, Chaos, Kin. 

The documentary follows an Indian immigrant mother as she helps her adopted twin daughters reconnect with their White birth mother and estranged Native American father, exposing raw class divides while transforming their understanding of identity and belonging.

As November is Adoption month in the US and indigenous heritage month it can be rented and streamed here

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

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Hello and welcome to the AandF podcast. 

This is a different kind of episode, as it’s a recording of peer support group sessions that I host with Walking with Families. We are a community of adoptive parents who are living with challenging behaviour and we had Neurodiversity Coaching Psychologist Anna Webster join us. She shares her experience and insight to parenting a child with a diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and and the complication of neurodiversity and the Neurowise Programme on Therapeutic Caregiving for FASD.

If you want to find out more about Walking with Families you can do that here or join the FB group here. 

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As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

We did 10 years and are still talking, in lots of senses.

In this episode we start with an attempt at role play as we unpack Adoption Week's two problems, a crisis in recruitment and a crisis in support. Scott wasn't too keen on that but we look at where we came from and how we got here. 

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Hello and welcome to conversations from the AandF podcast. 

This is a slightly different episode  I speak to Professor of Social Work Adam McCormick from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas. 

We chat about Social work, social workers, aspects of the foster care system and the nature of the system in the state. We also consider the motivations of social workers to join the profession and see how their life experiences impact on them and their work. We also chat about the challenges faced by LGBTQ young people in foster care and the systemic hostility they face. 

You can see more of Adam here. 

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com