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Season 4 Episode 5
Foster Care Families
Caroline wraps up her story as a foster mom by relating how God continues to meet her family’s needs both physically and spiritually. She also explains how pastors, elders and churches can improve their sensitivity about serving well in the area of trauma.
Visit your county’s department of social services website for foster parent info.
Course: [H] Institute’s Theology of Story One
Books:
- The Other Half of Church by
- Try Softer by Aundi Kolber
- Foster the Family by Jamie Finn
- Reframing Foster Care by Jason Johnson.
- Something Scary Happened Picture Book by Darby Strickland
- When Children Experience Trauma: Help for Parents and Caregivers by Darby Strickland
- Trauma: Caring for Survivors by Darby Strickland
Meet Jill Butler
Alongside Families alongsidefamilies.org. If you don’t live in NC upstreamcollab.org
If you are a foster parent looking for a support group in your area please visit Foster the Family support groups.
Season 4 Episode 4
Foster Care Families
Expert Contributor, Jonathan Holmes interacts on this Season's topic of Foster Care Family. Jonathan himself is adopted and has a very interesting story. Contributing as both a counselor and adoptee it is fascinating to hear his perspective and wisdom.
Visit your county’s dept. of social services website for foster parent info.
Click here to learn more about Jonathan Holmes of Fieldstone Counseling.
Jonathan is the author and contributor to a number of books:
Jonathan
- teaches in the MAC program at Westminster Theological Seminary,
- and he serves as a visiting faculty member for CCEF.
If you are a foster parent looking for a support group in your area please visit Foster the Family support groups.
Alongside Families alongsidefamilies.org. If you don’t live in NC upstreamcollab.org
Season 4 Episode 3
Foster Care Families
Caroline continues her story as she describes the second-hand trauma she experienced as a foster mom of traumatized children. She and Dr. Ann Maree Goudzwaard discuss how the church can better minister to foster families.
Visit your county’s dept. of social services website for foster parent info.
Foster care books:
- Reframing Foster Care by Jason Johnson.
- Foster the Family by Jamie Finn
Resources about connecting with traumatized children:
- The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siege MD,
- When Children Experience Trauma by Dark Strickland.
Foster parent support group: Foster the Family.
Alongside Families alongsidefamilies.org. If you don’t live in NC upstreamcollab.org
Link to Help[H]er’s own: H Institute
Bible study: Second Mother: A Bible Study Experience for Foster and Adoptive Moms
Season 4 Episode 2
Foster Care Families
“How can the church come alongside and care for the very unique needs of both the parents and the biological children and the foster or adopted children in these families?”
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