Episode 159: Raising Awareness: People Need to See It Before They Can Be It (w/ Jessica Hurlbut)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
It’s National Adoption Month! In honor of that, the podcast will be weekly this month to provide more opportunities for you to share episodes with friends who might not know as much about foster care or adoption in order to increase awareness. Let’s spread the word!
Once you become aware of the need within the foster care community, it’s hard to focus on anything else, right? For Jessica Hurlbut, that is exactly what happened when she adopted a sibling group from foster care in 2015. Once she became aware of the needs in the foster care community, she knew she needed to display to others how they can help. In fact, she founded a run that led to the amount of foster homes in her county doubling! In today’s episode, Jessica shares her journey of advocacy, how to push past the fluff and be real, what it’s been like to be a mother to five children, and much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:03.7 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | And the thing that I'm so overwhelmed by, like, in our county and in our community, in our church community, is this thought that people can't be it until they see it. |
| 0:31.1 | Hey there. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast. I'm your host, Jamie Cabe, and I am so very excited to have you with me here today. November is National Adoption Month, so we're |
| 0:36.9 | going to do things a little bit differently |
| 0:38.6 | here on the podcast. |
| 0:40.2 | We'll be bringing you an episode each and every week this month to help raise awareness |
| 0:45.3 | surrounding adoption and bring attention to the need for loving adoptive families for |
| 0:51.4 | children waiting in the foster care system. Did you know that of the 400,000 |
| 0:57.2 | children in foster care, about 25% of them are waiting to be adopted? Each and every one of these |
| 1:04.4 | children and all the different individuals in their lives matter, and they have stories to tell. I would love for you to join me this month |
| 1:12.2 | and consider partnering with TFI to impact the lives of these children and families. Team 310 is a group |
| 1:19.4 | of partners that give to TFI to help us continue on mission together. We can make a big difference |
| 1:26.0 | in the foster care community and your gift of $10, $25, or $50 |
| 1:29.9 | makes a huge impact. You can learn more and join today at the forgotteninitiative.org |
| 1:36.4 | slash team 310. That's the forgotten initiative.org slash team 310. Thank you again for joining me, and let's go now to today's episode for |
| 1:48.4 | National Adoption Month. |
| 1:54.8 | Well, I am so happy to have you on the show, Jessica. I would love to start us out by giving some context to our listeners. |
| 2:04.0 | So what I know about you is that you're a writer, a pastor, a runner, which is incredibly |
| 2:09.2 | impressive, passionate advocate, wife, and mom. But I would love to hear from you, like, |
| 2:15.4 | will you give us a little context? What hats do you |
| 2:19.3 | wear? What lights you up and gives you energy? Like tell us some things about you. Maybe not |
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