Episode 171: The Challenges of Kinship Care & Becoming a Grand-Family (w/ Rachel Mahnke)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast, we are talking about a special kind of care in the foster care community called kinship care. Kinship care is when children are cared for by grandparents, extended family members, or unrelated adults with whom they have a close family-like relationship.
Caregivers providing kinship care often face unique challenges and abrupt changes to their life plans. In addition to dealing with the circumstances leading to the need for kinship care, their lives are overhauled with the unexpected introduction of the child now in their care.
Sharing her experience with us is Rachel Mahnke, a Certified Wellness Coach, Trauma Informed Parent, Life Coach, Therapeutic Art Facilitator, author, and adoptive parent of her biological grandchildren. When life took an unexpected turn, Rachel went from a soon-to-be empty nester to providing kinship care to her two little grandchildren.
This episode holds so much wisdom and honesty, and I am eager to share it with you!
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:03.6 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:06.3 | They don't need to know what to say. |
| 0:09.4 | They don't even need to know how. |
| 0:11.7 | We're not looking for you to fix us. |
| 0:14.7 | Just love us. |
| 0:15.9 | Because it is hard. |
| 0:17.9 | And just knowing that somebody cares, it really changes the world. |
| 0:23.6 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people |
| 0:31.6 | of foster care. |
| 0:32.6 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. We want to bring |
| 0:38.6 | you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster |
| 0:44.0 | parents, vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. If you want to |
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| 1:04.4 | together. Thank you for listening and engaging with us. We love having you as part of our family. |
| 1:14.9 | Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:26.1 | Well, Rachel, thank you so very much for joining me on the show today. I'm grateful and I'm excited to get to know you. Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:29.7 | Thank you, Jamie. Well, Rachel, thank you for joining me on the show today. You are a person who |
| 1:35.6 | wears a lot of hats and some of those hats are a writer, a speaker. You're a grandma, a grandma who is |
| 1:42.9 | actually raising her grandchildren. You've written a book |
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