The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

Hello and welcome to Episode 185 of the Adoption and Fostering Podcast. 

In this episode we interview  transnational/transracial Adoptee and Sexologist Anna Linde.

Anna's research, website and social media can be found below

Free Discovery call and my ”workbase” at Healing Exchange LLC:

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Hello and welcome to this episode of the Better Me Better Us Podcast with Vicki and Hayley.

As it’s National Stress Awareness Month we thought we’d talk about expectations both of ourselves and others and how it contributes to our stress levels.

We would love to hear your experiences and open up the conversation.

Conn...

Hello and welcome to  Conversations from the the A&F Network. 

In this episode I speak adult adoptee Courtney-Grace. She shares her experience of adoption and is frank in relation to the challenges she faced growing up and re entering the care system as a teenager. Courtney-Grace is honest and frank about the impact of her experiences and the challenges that she has navigated. 

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, foster...

In this episode we speak to Jenny Ginger in relation to her Phd looking at the issue of adopting when you've already got a biological child. 

It's a fascinating subject and we drew on Jenny's research and knowledge as well as a raft of interesting comments and questions that came from listeners though our FB page. You can read them here. 

We mentioned a new research project 'family routes' you can find more details of that here.

As...

In this webcast we discuss the latest updates in the world of fostering and chat about FosterWiki’s latest independent survey. We cover a lot of ground and reference comments from our FB page here. Please follow and like to recieve notifications and info about what we're discussing and upcoming episodes. 

You can participate here in the FosterWiki survey here. 

We’d love to hear from any other carers or adopters from far flung land...

This episode is an interview that Al did with Adopt 4 Life's Kathryn Connor and Murray Coulter looking at the support service that they provide for fathers experiencing challenging and violent and aggressive behaviour.  

You can check out their website 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...

Hello and welcome to this special edition of  the A&F Podcast. 

In this episode we’re sharing a keynote speech that I gave to the CoramBAAF post adoption support conference to mark the release of the their  best practice guide by Caroline Thomas and John Simmonds. I tried to ground the talk in the lived experience of families but there was certainly much more that could have been said. 

I hope you find it interesting and please...

Hello and welcome to episode 183 of the Adoption and Fostering Podcast. We had a plan but got slightly sidetracked by the good news of FASD Ireland's funding success. That led us down a rabbit hole in terms of how do we affect change, what are the levers we need to pull and what are the challenges. We unpick that then Al has some feedback from CoramBAAF's post adoption conference and we run through that. 

We also check in with Al a...

Episode 10 – Embracing mistakes for growth

In this months podcast we talk about mistakes-  What was our experience of mistakes growing up and how they were responded to? Does this impact how we respond now? Do you create safe spaces and relationships for conversations to happen?

We would love to hear your experiences and open up the conversation.

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Hello and welcome to this edition of conversations from the A&F network. 

In this episode I speak to foster carers Halima and Adam. They have chosen to be carers while raising a young family and describe their positive experiences as well as some of the challenges that they face as carers.  It’s a thoughtful conversation and demonstrates how effective support is essential for all foster carers. 

As always if you’ve experience o...

Hello and welcome to the 182nd episode of the A&F podcast. In this episode we chat to Phil Watson, amongst many other things, he works as a recruiter for Liverpool fostering as well as being a foster carer and adoptive parent. This is a somewhat chaotic but cracking chat with Phil sharing some of his personal experience as well as speaking to the challenges of recruiting as well as the nature of fostering itself. 

We would reco...

Hello and welcome to the A&F podcast. In this episode we unpick a few questions in relation to post adoption contact as well as think about how much scaffolding is too much and downsizing when your children get to 18. 

Here's a link for next Intro to NVR that we're holding on the 13th & 20th May. As it's online it's open to any persons from anywhere https://rb.gy/dx888x

Link for other workshops: www.fasdireland.ie/workshop...

Hello and welcome to this edition of conversations from the A&F network. 

In this episode I speak to Susan Vickers, she shares her story of growing up as a transracial adoptee in the 70s and 80s. Susan experienced ongoing racism and a challenging relationship with her adoptive parents. She then went on to reconnect with her biological parents with complex outcomes. Susan has written two book charting her experience ‘Love Susan:...

Hello to Better Me Better you Ep9 - As Children’s Mental Health Week falls within February, we thought we would discuss this year’s theme which is “My Voice Matters”. 

 

What do we already do to ensure we listen to the voice of the child and what could we do better?

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Hello and welcome to this edition of conversations from the A&F network. 

In this episode I speak to adult adoptee Stephen Rowley, he was adopted in the 1940s in the US and he shares some of his journey to rediscovering his birth family. Stephen in a Psychotherapist and he unpicked aspects of his internal journey and considers some philosophical questions in terms of identity. Stephen has a website here and you can find out mor...

Hello and welcome to this Wednesday Webcast from the A&F network. 

We chat to Researcher Matt Clark about his research into adoptive dads, we unpick why he's doing the research and some of the specific challenges that dads face and are perhaps hidden in the support world. 

You can read more about the research here or get in touch with Matt

 

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any ...

Hello and welcome to the Adoption and Fostering podcasting, this week we explore Therapeutic Parenting and Good Enough Parenting. Terms that we often throw around and presume that we understand but we ask what it actually is, is there a definition and are we all on the same page. 

We draw on the feedback we had from the excellent comments on our FB pages (you can read them here and here and consider if we are indeed therapeutic par...

Hello and welcome to this edition of conversations from the A&F network. 

In this episode I speak to Irina, she is a foster carer and an adoptive parent and lives in Australia. Irina shares her experience of becoming a foster carer then moving to Singapore where she also fostered then adopted her daughter with her husband. They now live back in Australia where they have continued to foster and have adopted a son. In this conver...

It's that time of the year and as per our new tradition we've invited our spouses on to dish the dirt, catch up and reflect on the latest comings and goings in our journey. We cover all kinds of stuff, children growing up, boundaries, new ways of being and moving house. 

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 podcas...