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
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...
E30 | Supporting Foster Care, Adoption, Homeless Youth Inclusion in Policy and Practice
Here, I discuss how organizations, schools, and government can promote the inclusion of individuals of a foster care, adoption, homeless youth background through policy and practice. To learn more about my research or consultation and guest spe...
Episode 29 | Foster Care Resilience
Are you in foster care or a transitional foster age youth? In this episode, I share tips based on life experience to strengthen youth resilience while going through foster care and beyond.
Episode 28 | Seeing the Glass Half Full
Drawing from the framework of synchronicity and a strengths-based perspective, I reflect on how our woes may be points of beauty concomitantly creating lifelong friendships and family. Share this episode with someone you know who may bene...