Episode 140: Family Matters: Changing the Story for Teens in Foster Care
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
With 20,000 teens aging out of the foster care system each year and many of them unprepared to navigate adult life, this is a real crisis. The need for families who are passionate about teen foster children is great. In today’s episode, we are talking with Peter Amico. Peter and his wife are foster parents who are passionate about finding families that are willing to show up for teens in the foster care system. Peter and I talk about the unique challenges teens in foster care face, the most important thing you can do when caring for teens in foster care, an exhortation to the Church, and much more. I know you’ll find today’s episode challenging and filled with so much truth.
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey. |
| 0:05.0 | This is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | I know intellectually that I need to keep showing up and that how important that is. |
| 0:16.0 | I know it's important for my own life. |
| 0:19.0 | It's important for, it's important for anybody, but especially so much more so for kids who've gone through the trauma of being abandoned by their parents. |
| 0:32.2 | Hey, it's Jamie Kabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast. Whether you're part of the foster care community, |
| 0:39.2 | passionate about serving or simply interested in learning more, you have come to the right place. |
| 0:45.9 | Did you know that there are 112 teens in the U.S. foster care system? That was as of 2020. Each year, 20,000 of them age out of the system |
| 0:58.9 | and are expected to care for themselves, even though they have often not been taught the skills to do so |
| 1:04.5 | and they lack support systems. There is a great need for more people to step in and care for teens in foster care, |
| 1:12.6 | and that is the topic we're talking through today. |
| 1:16.1 | Joining me is Peter Amico. |
| 1:18.4 | On top of being a health economist, Peter and his wife Kendra are passionate about |
| 1:22.5 | supporting teenage children in the foster care system. |
| 1:25.9 | They are foster parents themselves and have six |
| 1:28.2 | children, two biological, three of whom were adopted out of foster care and a young adult that |
| 1:35.1 | came into their family at the age of 17. This is such a good conversation. But before we jump in, |
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| 1:58.1 | 310 comes from the passage in Malachi 310, where we are instructed by the Lord as he |
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