Each episode will feature a conversation between host Rebecca Harvin and foster/adoptive caregivers or members of the community who support foster care and adoption.
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Host Sandra Flach is a mom of 8 children, 5 through adoption—one kinship and 4 international. Her youngest 2 are teens diagnosed with a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). With over 30 years of parenting experience and 20 plus years as an adoptive and kinship parent, she’s made mountains of mistakes and learned loads of lessons. She understands the difficult road of parenting children with trauma histories—and she is still in the trenches! The Adoption & Foster Care Journey is a podcast ...
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Are you thinking about adopting or fostering a child? Confused about all the options and wondering where to begin? Or are you an adoptive or foster parent or kinship caregiver trying to be the best parent possible to this precious child? This is the podcast for you! Every week, we interview leading experts for an hour, discussing the topics you care about in deciding whether to adopt/foster or how to be a better parent. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are the national ...
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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 a ...
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Navigating Child Welfare | CPS, Foster Care, Family Court, Adoption, Mandated Reporter
Shanelle Dupree
Are you struggling to keep good child welfare staff and volunteers? Are they drowning in alphabet soup, unclear timelines, fuzzy roles, and “who does what” confusion? Does attending court hearings cause anxiety in staff and families? You are not by yourself. When people talk about the foster care system they often describe it as broken, confusing, and frustrating. It’s why I’m so excited to introduce a podcast that will help staff and volunteers see the big picture of child welfare, lessen a ...
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These podcasts are all about foster care and everything within them.
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Foster care, adoption, sports and entertainment news and interviews.
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Called to Love: An Adoption Podcast for Christian Parents - Christian Adoption, Trauma and Healing, Foster Care, Parenting Adopted Children
Somer Colbert and Christian Parenting
Whether you seek to add to your family through foster care, private domestic adoption or you are called to travel internationally, every adoption story is uniquely beautiful. Yet, each shares a common language of calling, loss, and hardship. As Christian parents we have a deep desire to love and shepherd our children well, but it can be challenging to navigate loss, trauma and how to best love and guide our adopted children. One thing is for sure, adoption is more than a process, it is an in ...
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From Families' Anchor, join us as we navigate through the Child Welfare system. Hear stories from parents, Parent Navigators, service providers, attorneys, judges, the Department, family & friends, foster parents, and more. Come be part of the positive conversation and change of Child Welfare to a family well-being system.
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Welcome to the Journey House/ Beyond Foster Care podcast!. here we will be discussing future events as well as current ones. We will have special guests on every other episode. #Educate #Advocate #Empower give us a follow!
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The Foster Care system has earned a bad rap. This is our journey trying to find our place in the system Cover art photo provided by Efe Kurnaz on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@efekurnaz
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We are a group of Independent Fostering Agencies; Time For Children, Fostering Options, Foster Care Solutions and Futures For Children, We were built by those who know fostering best and are here to talk about all things 'foster care'; from the moments that test us to the ones that truly amaze us. Take a seat, pop the kettle on and join us for a quick chat.
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Let It Be Us: A Foster Care and Adoption Podcast was launched in 2022 by the Illinois nonprofit organization Let It Be Us. Foster Care professionals and parents speak on issues important to the journey of foster care and adoption. If you live in the State of Illinois and want to become a foster parent or learn about waiting children, go to www.letitbeus.org
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Foster care is truly an unparalleled experience. This is our journey as a foster and adoptive family that has seen and experienced a lot! We want to share our joy and heartbreak with the world to inspire others to join in our mission of providing strength to the weakest among us. We are sharing our personal experiences as a foster and adoptive family and the stories that other brave souls are willing to generously share with us. Our goal is to help potential foster families take that next st ...
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Hope for Weary Adoptive and Foster Parents
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39:50Welcome to the Called to Love Podcast! In this episode, my special guest is the founder of The Mission Driven Mom and creator of the MDM Academy: Audrey Rindlisbacher. Audrey’s world was turned upside down when she, at the time a mother to four kids herself, decided to foster her cousin’s four children, ages ranging from twelve years old to newborn…
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Soul Care for Weary Foster and Adoptive Caregivers: Support and Restoration
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57:14In this episode of 'Behind the Curtain: Honest Conversations about Foster Care and Adoption,' we explore essential soul care for foster and adoptive caregivers experiencing burnout. We share honest stories of exhaustion, striving, and the simple spiritual practices that help restore strength, encourage rest, and sustain leadership from a full cup. …
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Episode 509 - Advent—Peace at Home with Sandra Flach
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40:00“Jesus said, I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” -John 16:33 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care. On th…
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Help! My Foster Child Is Being Bullied! - Weekend Wisdom
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12:33Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: Help for a youth dealing with being bullied because they are in foster care? Resources: 5 Steps to Effectively Advocate for a Child Who is Being Bullied Are Transracial Adoptees More Likely to Be Bullied? Helping Our Kids Cope with Bullies at School StopBullying.gov Suppor…
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Episode 18: Triggered in Foster Care: Moving From Confused to Connected
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9:35Shanelle has been listening deeply to parents, caregivers, youth, caseworkers, judges, and faith/community partners. The stories are hard: reports not read, workers demeaned, youth uninformed, and children disoriented by sudden moves. This episode names those triggers and charts a path toward being more connected so people aren’t navigating foster …
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Episode 25 | Como Apoyar a los Padres de Adopción y de Cuidado de Crianza
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12:57Send us a text Como puedo apoyar a mis clientes, estudiantes, o amigos que son padres adoptivos o de cuidado de crianza? Escuche este episodio para aprender más. Support the show Dr. Zayda Sorrell Medina Dr. Zayda Sorrell Medina is a professor, social scientist, former foster and homeless youth, foster adoptive parent, author, and advocate. Speakin…
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Healing Your History to Help Your Kids Heal Theirs with Dr. Robyn Koslowitz, Ph.D.
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58:01Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you feel like raising a child with a history of trauma has stirred up your own traumatic past? If you wonder how to parent from a position of healing, listen to this conversation with Dr. Robyn Koslowitz. She is a psychologist, trauma expert, and author of the new book, Post-Trau…
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Fostering Medically Fragile Children
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35:44Welcome to the Called to Love Podcast! In this episode, Jill Marier joins me on the podcast to discuss the need for fostering medically fragile children. Jill has a rather unique family, and in her words she says “we get stares.” They have a large household full of children that are adopted, biological, and fostering, many of them are medically fra…
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Foster Care Stories: The Role of the Guardian Ad Litem and How it Impacts Children in Foster Care
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1:02:04Two friends pull back the curtain on what a Guardian ad Litem does, why the role matters, and how one steady volunteer can change a child’s case. Andrea shares training, time commitment, school advocacy wins, and the power of speaking for the child alone. • what a guardian ad litem or CASA is and does • training, background checks, and virtual cour…
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Episode 508 - Advent—A Mountain of Hope with Sandra Flach
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30:30"Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and throwninto the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." -Mark 11:22-23 Welcome to The Adoption & Fo…
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Am I Right in Not Letting My Grandchild's Mom Visit? - Weekend Wisdom
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18:28Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: I have been fostering our grandchild since March. It is now almost September. Both biological parents had drug addiction. Bio mom was on a trial home visit, but used this as the reason our grandchild is with us. After the trial home visit ended, bio mom was still getting s…
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Faith + Foster Care Child welfare can feel complicated and confusing—but families should never be asked to navigate it alone. In this episode of Navigating Child Welfare, I share how faith, prevention, and community supports surround families before, during, and after system involvement. We talk about opening our eyes (2 Kings 6) to the help alread…
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A Conversation with Emily Cole from Bananas Foster
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32:31Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Join us for a fun and inspiring conversation with Emily Cole, co-founder and co-owner of Banana Ball, the new sports phenomenon sweeping the country. We're talking with her about Bananas Foster, their non-profit that celebrates foster families all around the nation. In this episode,…
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Welcome to the Called to Love Podcast! In this episode, I am helping you better understand embryo adoption. IVF treatments have risen in popularity as desperate families seek to get pregnant, but the process comes at a great cost— and not just financially, but also emotionally, mentally, and even spiritually as families navigate what to do with exc…
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Episode 507 - Gratitude and Grief with Sandra Flach
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48:39"Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus." -1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster care and kinship care. On this Thanksgiving week episod…
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Tips for Transitioning a Child from Foster Care to Adoption - Weekend Wisdom
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19:29Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: Do you have trainings for children transitioning from foster care to adoption? Resources: Transitioning a Child to Your Home Welcoming an Older Child to Your Family Helping Your Child Transition Smoothly from Foster Care to Adoption Using Lifebooks to Explain Complex Issue…
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Episode 16: Barriers to Connection...and How We Remove Them
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8:09Host Shanelle Dupree makes the case that no one can (or should) do this work alone. Drawing on courtroom moments and frontline advocacy, she surfaces the barriers to connecting well, like not understanding the multiple systems families must navigate and offers practical ways to help parents, youth, staff, and volunteers participate fully. Shanelle …
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Taking Care of Yourself When Parenting Harder to Parent Kids
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37:52Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you sometimes feel that self-care is an impossible goal when you are parenting kids who have experienced trauma? There isn’t enough time in the day to do it all, much less take care of yourself. Or is there? Join us to talk about how to find time to take care of yourself. We will…
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Encouragement for the Waiting Adoptive Parent
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31:49Welcome to the Called to Love Podcast! In this episode, I am joined by a joyful and light-filled author, speaker, and mom: Alice Matagora. Alice shares her story about a painful waiting process, depending on God’s promises. Inspired by this waiting journey, as a new mom Alice wrote the book, “You Are My Miracle”. All children are a miracle from God…
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Episode 506 - Observing National Adoption Month with Justin Myers
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59:10"But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light." -1 Peter 2:9 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through ad…
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Open Adoption and Healthy Boundaries - Weekend Wisdom
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13:07Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: We adopted our son at birth, and he is about to turn one already. I deeply care about his birth parents and have tried very hard to maintain a relationship with them. Even during many months of no contact, I think about them every day. Our only post-placement visit with th…
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BRB: We Hit Pause Before Season 3 starts on December 2nd
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3:43Big news first: we’re taking a short breather so we can come back strong on December 2 with Season Three of Behind the Curtain. While we pause, we’re pointing you to two powerful replays and a brand-new support that can change the daily rhythm for foster and adoptive families. We start with a listener favorite: a candid look at foster care through …
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Episode 15: Child Welfare's a New Language
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7:14Episode summary In this episode of Navigating Child Welfare, host Shanelle Dupree makes the case for a third “C” that changes outcomes: connected. Through a story about attending a presentation in Spanish, Shanelle shares how knowing the language can help make you feel connected. Shanelle shows how child welfare jargon and acronyms quietly exclude …
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Navigating the Holidays With a Trauma-Sensitive Approach
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58:49Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Why do our kids melt down, act out, or regress during the holiday season? Listen to our conversation with Dr. David Adams to learn what is going on and what you can do about it to make this holiday season more enjoyable for you all. He is an adoptive and foster dad, a licensed psych…
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A Gospel Centered Look at Foster Care and Adoption
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47:15Welcome to the Called to Love Podcast! In this episode, I am joined by the amazing and inspiring Jamie Finn. Jamie is an author and busy mom to both biological and adopted children, and their family has been fostering for years. She is also the founder and president of Foster the Family, a national nonprofit that serves vulnerable children and the …
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Episode 505 - Understanding Autonomic Nervous System Dysfunction with Dr. Jerrod Brown
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43:46"Do you not know that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; You were bought at a price. Therefore, honor God with your bodies." -Corinthians 6:19-20 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in c…
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My Child's Birth Parent Contacted My Child - Weekend Wisdom
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16:51Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: My adoptive child was contacted by the birth mother, never contacted us, it has caused chaos in our family. The parents that adopt kids are never considered after raising a child for over 20 years to give them back. Resources: Adoptive Mom Feels Left Out at Son’s Reunion w…
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Sleep Issues with Adopted, Foster, or Relative Children
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1:03:15Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How do you handle sleep struggles when raising a child who has been impacted by trauma, prenatal substance exposure, or other challenges? Listen to our conversation with Dr. Chris Winter, a sleep researcher and neurologist who has practiced sleep medicine and neurology since 2004. H…
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Episode 504 - Educating Children and Teens with Trauma & FASD with Shannon Iacobacci
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1:13:41"And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise." -Deuteronomy 6:6-7 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you…
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Welcome to the Called to Love Podcast! In this episode, I am joined by Leah Brandon Akannam and Brian Murphy from the Gift of Adoption Fund. One of the biggest things stopping people from pursuing adoption is the cost. Resources like the Gift of Adoption Fund are here to bridge the gap and take down this barrier to a child finding their home. We di…
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Episode 14: From Confusion to Connection: Three C's of Child Welfare
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5:38Episode 14 Description: Child welfare is often confusing and complicated…so how do we get to connected? In this episode, Shanelle Dupree names the Three C’s, unpacks a heavy multi-system case, names a issue that can keeps us stuck, and shares a first look at Syncing Child Welfare (SYNC), a new way to simplify systems and connect communities. 🎧 List…
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Supporting a Child Who is a People Pleaser - Weekend Wisdom
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15:45Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: How should I deal with an adoptive child with a people-pleasing personality? I want to prevent the anxiety that comes with that, but I'm not sure how. Resources: 6 Tips for Creating Attachment How to Cultivate Resilience in Your Kids 7 Character Traits Your Kids Need to Th…
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Practical Financial Strategies for Foster & Kinship Families
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51:22Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How do you manage daily expenses and budgeting when you are a foster or kinship caregiving family? We speak with Nicole Valenzuela, a foster parent and founder of Fostering Finances, to learn about simplified budgeting practices and healthy mindsets for managing money. In this episo…
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Welcome to the Called to Love Podcast! In this episode, I am joined by the founder of Finally Home: Kristin Orphan. Finally Home exists to walk alongside foster, adoptive, and kinship families with faith-rooted resources that bring hope, healing, and strength. They are a national non-profit that provide tools, courses, resources and community to fa…
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Episode 503 - Supporting Everyone in the Adoption and Foster Care Constellation with Jeanette Yoffe
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1:14:34For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow. So let it grow. For when your endurance is fully developed, you will be strong in character and ready for anything." -James 1:3-4 Welcome to The Adoption & Foster Care Journey—a podcast to encourage, educate and equip you as you care for children in crisis through adoption, foster …
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Should We Expand Our Special Needs Checklist to Include HIV? - Weekend Wisdom
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12:32Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Question: My husband and I are considering whether we will open our special needs consideration to include children who are HIV+. We have already been approved to adopt from India, and as our home study update approaches, we are taking a good, hard look at the Special Needs list aga…
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Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. What strategies can parents and caregivers implement in their homes to help reduce the risk that their children may be sexually abused? Learn practical parenting tools from this conversation with Dr. Eliana Gil, the founder of the Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education. She…
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