Episode 142: Navigating Transition & Alternative Outcomes in Foster Care
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Foster care is hard, and it can often feel confusing. It can be even more confusing when you’re rooting for reunification, and alternative outcomes you weren’t prepared for are pursued.
Dorothy Mendoza and her husband, Chris, began fostering because they wanted to see children reunified with their biological parents. In their first 3 years as foster parents, they fostered 9 children, and only one of those cases ended in reunification, while the others ended in an alternative outcome (not reunification or adoption by the foster parents). This was a surprise to them that brought its own challenging emotions and difficult choices. In today’s episode, Dorothy and I talk about what some alternative outcomes are, how to navigate hard transitions and goodbyes in foster care, why we should run towards brokenness, and much more. I hope this episode is an encouragement to you!
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| 0:00.0 | Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:09.8 | Fear is not from God, so it doesn't get to win, you know, and I think that that has, in a funny way, kind of empowered us that we are on God's team and the other team loses, you know, we can march |
| 0:22.9 | forward knowing that fear doesn't get to win. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello and welcome back to the Forgotten podcast. I'm your host, Jamie Cave, and I am so |
| 0:34.5 | excited to have you here with me today. Whether you've been part of the foster |
| 0:38.8 | care community for a while or are just trying to learn more, we are here for you. We have a great |
| 0:45.8 | episode to share with you today, but before we jump into that, I want to let you know that this |
| 0:50.1 | month applications are open to become a TFI advocate. |
| 0:59.9 | This only happens a couple of times a year, so it will be a while before they open again. |
| 1:09.5 | Here at TFI, we are passionate about helping people everywhere, support the foster care community, and experience Jesus together. |
| 1:13.7 | We primarily do this by helping people just like you launch and lead thriving foster care ministries |
| 1:17.7 | right where they live. |
| 1:20.5 | This is who our advocates are. |
| 1:22.7 | They are leaders who are connecting the church |
| 1:25.7 | to the foster care community in their area. |
| 1:28.3 | We have seen God consistently do incredible things in communities all across the country, |
| 1:36.3 | and if stepping out to support the foster care community in your area peaks your interest, |
| 1:41.3 | we would love for you to apply. |
| 1:45.3 | Applying does not lock you into anything, but it does allow us to have a great conversation |
| 1:50.9 | together and talk openly about whether this is the right next step for you. |
| 1:55.8 | We want to be sure that we are a fit for each other. |
| 1:58.8 | You can get all the details and apply at tfiadvocate.org. |
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