The vision of Adoption Learning Partners (ALP) is to make a positive measurable impact on adoption outcomes and offer meaningful, timely, web-based educational adoption resources for professionals, parents, adopted individuals, and the families that love them.
Aging Out Institute: Preparing Foster Youth for Adulting
In this episode, Lynn Tonini interviews Dr. John DeGarmo, Founder of both the Foster Care Institute and Never Too Late in Monticello, GA. John and Lynn talk about Never Too Late, the residential program he started for young men aging out of foster care; the services he offers organizations, agencies and foster parents; some challenges faced by foster parents; and ideas to improve the foster care system.
Foster Care and Adoption Conference 2020 podcasts and on-line information:
Moving operations online has given Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition (AFFC) an opportunity to make more connections and support even more New York families. By removing barriers and allowing all to access the Conference on their own time and in the safety of their homes. In addition, we are recording all ongoing presentations and workshops so that on demand video access will be available.
North American Council on Adoptable Children
We Must Do Better for Children: Race and Equity in Foster Care and Adoption (PLACE the NACAC logo on the ad please)
On February 23, 2021, NACAC is pleased to present a virtual one-day conference on key race and equity issues in the US and Canada. Professionals, parents, young people who experienced foster care or adoption, and other advocates are encouraged to attend to learn how they can make changes that result in better outcomes for children and families of color.
Attendees can participate live or listen to a recorded version of workshops, or a combination of the two. Recordings will be available through April 30, 2021.
The Adoptee Next Door
Angela Tucker is an adopted who is committed to advancing the conversation, not just having one. She is an adoptee and gifted speaker and education. As a black woman adopted from foster care to a white family, and growing up in a city that was dong demographically 1% Black, she understands the power of life’s most difficult moments. We welcome to you listen to some of her powerful podcasts on adoption
Adoption Discovery Podcasts
ADAPTED PODCAST explores the experiences of Korean adoptees, from post-reunion stories, living in Korea as adults, identity and belonging and more. Since the 1950s, an estimated 200,000 Korean children were sent overseas for adoption to about a dozen countries. Now, 70 years since intercountry adoption began, adult adoptees have reclaimed the narrative and established themselves as the experts on their own experience. Every story is personal and different. The common thread of transracial and intercountry adoption links us.
Welcome to the “Wait, I’m adopted?” Podcasts. They explore some of the commonly asked questions, stigmas, biggest fears and other unexpected parts of adoption through the lens of an internationally adopted child.
Creating a Family is the national adoption & foster care education and support nonprofit. Their mission is to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Their vision is that every adopted and foster child has a family who understands their unique gifts and challenges and is equipped to help them thrive.
Listen to adoptee, Haley Radke who found her biological parents and younger siblings, but has been “riding the reunion rollercoaster” for almost a decade with joy, and sometimes sorrow. She has a deep desire to connect with other adopted people and to hear and share their stories.
Their mission is to help support the foster care community through awareness, encouragement and advocacy.
On-line parenting lessons from the Berry Family entitled “Thrive as a Parent and Transform your Family” that includes Support and Mentoring, Coaching, Mentoring, Books and Resources.
The podcast is intended to help the attendee explore either own feelings about their adoption, accept their desire to try to understand their personal history and decide whether a search for a reunification with their biological relatives is right for them.
Regulated and Relational
Join Julie Beem & Ginger Healy as we explore the trauma-informed, attachment-focused concepts of Regulation (self-regulation/co-regulation) and Relationship (building connection) and how we can help children build resilience and emotional health through the ways in which we parent, teach and care for children. This podcast is produced by the Attachment & Trauma Network, or ATN, a leading national non-profit supporting children impacted by trauma through their families, schools and communities.
Born in June Raised in April: What Adoption Can Teach the World
April DinWoodie: Born in June Raised in April: What Adoption Can Teach the World
Listen to these poignant podcasts with an adult adoptee and her special guests.
Adoption: The Long View Podcast
Using Positive Adoption Language: “Giving Up A Baby and Other Commonly Used Negative Adoption Expressions” plus more podcasts
HealthySteps: Promoting Healthy Development for NJ’s Babies
Infancy and early childhood are increasingly recognized as the most critical developmental period, influencing lifelong health and well-being for everyone. Preventive infant mental health services can provide parents and young children with support to promote social and emotional development and prevent and treat mental health issues before they become more serious. However, the availability of preventive mental health services for infants, toddlers, and their families in New Jersey is limited.
Register to receive an overview of this evidence-based model aiding in the mental well-being of babies, and learn more about the efforts being made to bring the HealthySteps program to families throughout the state.
Side by Side
Side by Side is a large scale documentary and oral history project, telling the story of 65+ years of inter-country adoption out of South Korea and 100 individuals, born in Korea, 1944–1995. Filmmakers, Glenn Morey and Julie Morey, take an international journey through the personal memories and experiences of abandonment, relinquishment, orphanages, aging out, and intercountry adoption — 100 individual stories, filmed in 7 countries, 6 languages, 16 cities.
Raising Transracial Adoptees With Isaac Etter – Transracial Adoptee, Speaker & Activist
Isaac shares his powerful story and how parents can prepare their kids for a world that will treat them differently. He talks with great insight and clarity about doing our own work, providing positive racial mirrors, cultural events and more in this enlightening and empowering episode.