Episode 172: Supporting Aging-Out Youth (w/ Nick Sgarlata)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
We love bringing you stories from the foster care community as a way to encourage and equip you in your foster care journey. I’m excited to be able to share my conversation with not only a foster parent and adoptive parent, but the Executive Director of a non-profit whose mission is to help aging-out youth.
My guest is Nick Sgarlata. Nick and his wife, Carrie, started fostering in 2015. Today, he works closely with aging-out youth through Bridge to Brighter in Wisconsin. Nick has three biological children, two adoptive children, has fostered 15 children, and they just renewed their foster care license.
My hope is that you will benefit from hearing about the unique work that Nick does with aging out youth and connect with his experience as a foster parent. He has a generous heart, and I’m eager to share this episode 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. |
| 0:06.6 | Success for each youth is going to look different. |
| 0:09.6 | For one, it might be having and maintaining work. |
| 0:13.0 | For another, they have high goals, hopes, dreams, aspirations. |
| 0:16.7 | Whatever we can do to support them and get them to that point, that's our goal. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:26.7 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of |
| 0:31.9 | foster care. |
| 0:32.8 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. We want to bring you |
| 0:38.8 | hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster parents, |
| 0:44.8 | vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. If you want to learn more |
| 0:50.6 | about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles, or partner with us |
| 0:56.2 | on mission with a gift of any amount, head over to the forgotten initiative.org. We are in this |
| 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. |
| 1:25.9 | Well, Nick, I am, I'm really happy to have you on the show today. We met through a mutual friend, |
| 1:29.3 | and as we talked, and I heard some of your story and your passion I just I knew right away I wanted to have you on the podcast and I wanted our listeners |
| 1:34.4 | to hear from you and so just thank you for accepting my invitation and coming on today. |
| 1:40.3 | Well thank you. I'm excited to be here. Yeah, this is going to be. Of course, we're not going to cover every aspect of your story, right? |
| 1:46.6 | We have 30 minutes-ish. But I do want to zero in on your heart and your experiences with youth in foster care who are aging out of foster care specifically. |
| 1:56.6 | But before we really dive in, I want to give our listeners some context to who you are. |
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