Fostering the Future Podcast
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A show about all things child welfare, dependency, adoption and foster care. Your hosts, Jack & Cat are veterans in the world of child welfare and excited to spend a little time each week chatting about how we can all do something to help kids in care.
Fostering the Future Podcast
19h ago
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. We chat about the consequences of child abuse pediatricians doubling down even in the face of diagnoses explaining injuries – and the consequence of that is the destruction of a family – versus the slap on the wrist they may get if they admitted ..read more
Fostering the Future Podcast
4d ago
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how the agency who trained her to coparent had great concerns when she tried to coparent, and also how the agency would take Taki’s breastmilk and dispose of it without giving it to her child or informing her that they would not ..read more
Fostering the Future Podcast
4d ago
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how a therapist supervising Matt Hernandez visits exclaimed that he is a perfect parent and she has no concerns for him. She also found it odd that noone told her any issues to watch for with Matt, despite him being indicted by ..read more
Fostering the Future Podcast
4d ago
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how the agency would force Matt to lie about why Taki was not present at visits to the girls, and how the agency lied in court about vetting relatives and fictive kin for placement ..read more
Fostering the Future Podcast
6d ago
Jack & Christy chat with Jennifer. A fostermom in Georgia who is helping the Hernandez family and many other families going through similar stories of medical abuse of power. Matt & Taki Hernandez noticed a swollen leg on their infant and brought her to the dr who referred her to CHOA and within two hours ..read more
Fostering the Future Podcast
1w ago
we continue our conversation with dr Wallace in this bonus episode where we discuss social media – TW: Child Trafficking ..read more
Fostering the Future Podcast
1w ago
we continue our conversation with dr Wallace in this bonus episode where we discuss some behavior solutions from Dr Amen ..read more
Fostering the Future Podcast
1w ago
we continue our conversation with dr Wallace in this bonus episode where we discuss the default mode network ..read more
Fostering the Future Podcast
1w ago
we continue our conversation with dr Wallace in this bonus episode where we discuss rewards based parenting ..read more
Fostering the Future Podcast
1w ago
Jack chats with Dr Wallace about how trauma affects the brain by floods of chemicals that when too often, severe, or persisting can change the way the brain functions by digging deep neural pathways, changing the size and quality of brain structures and the amount of chemicals that flood the various networks. These injuries to ..read more