Foster Care, Adoption, and Beyond: Untold Stories
FAB untold stories integrates story telling, research, and expert interviews to shed light on the complexity of foster care, adoption, youth homelessness, and related social work and urban topics, with the ultimate goal of raising awareness and building a more compassionate world. The host, Dr. Zayda Sorrell Medina, is a professor, social scientist, and author. Her research includes the study of the foster, adopt, homeless youth community, and she is also a former foster and homeless youth and foster-adopt parent.
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Foster Care, Adoption, and Beyond: Untold Stories
Latest Episodes
E35 | Trauma and Adoption: An interview with Jessie Elliot
Jessie Elliot is the author of the memoir, a Hummingbird Lion. In this episode, she recounts her story that includes being internationally adopted from Korea, racism as Black and Korean woman, sexual and developmental trauma, and serendip...
E34 | Interview with Jeffrey Lambert at Ventura Housing
This episode highlights the impact of Ventura Housing Organization located in Ventura, CA and sheds light on the FYI Program, a rental assistance voucher for former foster youth.Donate or Get Involved with Ventura Housing ...
E33 | Race, Ethnicity, and Adoption
Thomas Brooks, author of A wealth of family: An adopted son's international quest for heritage, reunion, and enrichment shares his perspective on the intersectionality between race, ethnicity, and adoption.Link to A Wealth of Fa...
E32 | Should I Tell My Child That They Are Adopted?
Should you tell your adopted child that they are adopted? Thomas Brooks, author of A wealth of family: An adopted son's international quest for heritage, reunion, and enrichment shares his prospective. Link to A ...
E31 | An Adoption Story: The Story of Thomas Brooks
This episodes shares the adoption story of adoptee Thomas Brooks.Thomas Brooks is the Managing Director of Alpha Multimedia, a marketing and public relations firm that helps organizations increase brand recognition, generate more qualifi...