Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
Are you thinking about adopting or fostering a child? Confused about all the options and wondering where to begin? Or are you an adoptive or foster parent or kinship caregiver trying to be the best parent possible to this precious child? This is the podcast for you! Every week, we interview leading experts for an hour, discussing the topics you care about in deciding whether to adopt/foster or how to be a better parent. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are the national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content: weekly podcasts, weekly articles, and resource pages on all aspects of family building at our website, CreatingaFamily.org. We also have an active presence on many social media platforms. Please like or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 746
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2025
Setting Up Effective Kinship Navigator Programs
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Do you serve kinship families and are wondering how to best to meet their needs? We talk about kinship navigator programs with Stepha…
A Conversation with Dr. Bruce Perry About Trauma
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Join us as Dr. Bruce Perry answers your questions about how trauma impacts adoptive, foster, and kinship kids and families. Dr. Bruce…
2021 Adoption Tax Credit
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Are you planning on claiming the Adoption Tax Credit this year? We talk with Becky Wilmoth, an Enrolled Agent and Adoption Tax Credit…
What Are Your Chances of Getting Pregnant With Unexplained Infertility
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If you have unexplained infertility, what are your chances of ultimately having a baby—either through infertility treatment or natura…
The Connected Parent
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The next step in understanding attachment and Trust-Based Relational Intervention is the new book, The Connected Parent, by Dr. Karyn…
How Does Adoption Affect the Siblings Already in a Family?
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Does adoption positively or negatively affect children already in the family and what can parents do to lessen the negative impacts. …
LGBTQ+ Parenting (Part 2): Adoption
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We talk about LGBTQ+ adoption with Dr. Abbie Goldberg, a Professor of Psychology and Director of Women’s & Gender Studies at Clark Un…
LGBTQ+ Parenting (Part 1): Surrogacy
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What's it like for a gay couple to create their family through egg donation and surrogacy. We talk with Armando Correa, People Magazi…
Child Hosting Programs: Getting Prepared to be a Host Family
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Have you ever thought of hosting a child for the summer or over the winter holidays? Check out this show where we interview Kathy Hol…
Home Based Therapy
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Have you ever thought that it would be a lot more effective if the therapist could really see your child in action? That's the gist o…
How to Avoid Triggering and Being Triggered by Our Kids
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Do your child's reactions seem bigger than they should be to everyday events? Are your reactions sometimes a bit too big? What causes…
How Trauma Impacts a Child’s Development
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Trauma can impact almost every single aspect of a child's development. But there are things parents can do to buffer that impact. We …
Decisions To Be Made at Egg Retrieval
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We talk with Corey Burke, an embryologist and Tissue Bank Director at Cryos International-USA and Dr. Mark Trolice, Reproductive Endo…
Parental Leave: What you Need to Know Before You Adopt or Foster
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Are adoptive parents eligible for parental leave? What about foster parents or kinship parents? We talk with Dr. Amy Beacom and Sue C…
A Guide to Raising Your Grandchild
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We talk about raising your grandkids with Christine Adamec, coauthor with Dr. Andrew Adesman, of The Grandfamily Guidebook. She and h…
Talking With Your Adopted or Foster Child About the Hard Parts of Their Story
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Talking with your adopted or foster child about the hard parts of their story can feel like a daunting task. Should you tell your chi…
Primary Ovarian Insufficiency
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Primary Ovarian Insufficiency is a difficult and little understood diagnosis for infertility with ramifications for your general heal…
How to Afford Adoption
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What are some tried and true ways to afford adoption? In this episode, we talk with Julie Gumm, author of You Can Adopt Without Debt…
Family Building Challenges for Military Families: Adoption, IVF & Fostering
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We talk about the challenges of adopting, fostering, IVF, or third-party reproduction while being in the military. We talk with the c…
Kinship Caregivers & The Hidden Foster Care System
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Kinship caregivers (primarily grandparents raising their grandchildren) are often functioning as a shadow foster care system. We talk…