Dr. Zayda Sorrell-Medina is a social scientist and educator. She is also a first generation college student with experiences of foster care, youth homelessness, and adoption. She combines her academic and life experiences to shed light on a range of urban and social work topics on the Voice Podcast.
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Episode 7 | Embracing my unconventional family
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This episode reveals the beauty and hiccups of having an unconventional family. I reflect upon my own unconventional family living with my Puerto Rican Jewish mom and Chinese siblings as a high school teenager. I conclude with tips and words of encouragement on how we can better understand our unconventional family from a strengths based approach.…
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Episode 6 | Staying Positive: Smell the sopa de calabaza and corn tortilla
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This episode invites listeners to foster gratitude and positive energy despite prevailing life challenges. As a former homeless youth, I tried to see the glass half full, which kept me going towards my master plan of going to college despite my adversity. This episode draws from tender moments during my homeless adventures to illustrate this point.…
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Episode 5 | Raising and supporting teenagers
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Are you a parent of a teenager? In this episode, I draw upon my experiences as a runaway teenager and social work educator to share tips on how parents can better support their teenager. Especially when the teenager is not your biological child, it is ever more critical to take a trauma-informed approach.…
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Episode 4 | Black hair, gender, and pride
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Drawing upon an experience from as a homeless youth, this episode interrogates black hair and gender norms. I share how listeners may foster pride over conformity and shame.Autor: zayda sorrell-medina
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Episode 2 | White diamond: How foster and adoptive parents can honor their child’s parents
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This episode invites you to think of ways to honor, acknowledge, and recognize your child's family of origin. This is especially relevant if you are a foster or adoptive parent, legal guardian, social worker, educator, or family friend. In this episode, I share how I visited my biological mother who I hadn't visited in forever. Before we departed, …
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Episode 3 | Becoming a homeless youth in the United States
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There are millions of homeless youth in the United States, which represents a critical social problem to be addressed by social workers, scientists, policy makers, nonprofits, and other professionals. In this episode, I share my story on how I became a homeless youth in the U.S. and share strategies on how you can support this population.…
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Episode 1 | From adversity to resilience
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This episode invites you to reframe your adversity story. As a product of the 1980s crack epidemic in the United States, I was separated from my birth mother and went into foster care. This story shares how I now understand my story decades later. I conclude with an empowering message that challenges us to reconceive how we perceive our adversity s…
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