Episode 183: Supporting Your Biological Children While Fostering (w/ Daniela Coats)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Since May is National Foster Care Awareness Month, I will be bringing you stories every week from the various perspectives of the foster care community—agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children.
Will I be able to protect my biological children?
Do I need to keep the natural birth order of my biological children intact in order to foster successfully?
I’ve heard that children are resilient, so do I need to worry about my biological children?
I’ve heard questions like these from many in the foster care community, and I remember asking some of them myself when we first started the process of becoming foster parents.
Just as much as a new placement brings up challenging emotions for children in foster care, the same is true for our biological children. However, there isn’t as big of a focus on supporting biological children as they navigate the transition of welcoming new children into your home and dealing with the grief when they have to say goodbye to someone they may consider their sibling.
To help us understand more about how to support our biological children as we foster is Daniela Coats. Daniela is not only a Licensed Master Social Worker, but she is also a biological child of parents who fostered and eventually adopted. So she knows firsthand the difficult emotions that many biological children face alone. Daniela and her husband live in Texas with their six children, four by adoption and two by birth.
Listen in!
(Remember: Applications are now open for YOU to become a TFI Advocate, bridging the gap between foster care agencies and churches right in your local community. This only happens twice a year! Learn more and apply here.)
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Samaritan Ministries, a community of Christians who care for one another spiritually and financially when a medical need arises. |
| 0:08.7 | It's biblical, affordable health care sharing. Learn more at samaritan ministries.org slash the Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:17.3 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community, this is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:22.5 | If families are healthy because bio kids are healthy and parents are healthy, then kids in care will be better cared for because the family will be healthy. |
| 0:32.0 | So it really does stand to benefit everyone if we're caring for the whole family. |
| 0:41.3 | Hello. does stand to benefit everyone if we're caring for the whole family. Hello and welcome back to the Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | I'm your host, Jamie Cave, and I am very excited to have you with me here today. |
| 0:50.3 | May is National Foster Care Month, so every week this month, we will be highlighting stories from |
| 0:56.7 | each perspective of the foster care community. That's agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable |
| 1:03.0 | adults, and children. Every member of the foster care community matters, and everyone has a story |
| 1:10.3 | to tell. |
| 1:11.6 | Here at TFI, we equip churches across the country to make the foster care community known. |
| 1:18.6 | One of the main ways we do this is by helping you launch and lead a thriving foster care ministry right where you live. |
| 1:26.6 | These ministries connect churches and agencies |
| 1:29.6 | so that the church can help meet physical, relational, and spiritual needs in the foster care |
| 1:35.5 | community. And the foster care community can give perspective and opportunities to serve to the church. |
| 1:49.7 | We need each other. And I would love for you to join us on this mission. |
| 1:56.1 | Right now, during the month of May, applications to become a TFI advocate are open. |
| 2:02.4 | Now, this only happens twice a year, and there are only a few spots available. |
| 2:10.3 | So if you want to encourage your local foster care agencies and help churches become more aware of foster care, then you should apply. |
| 2:16.0 | It's completely free, and we are here to help you every step of the way. |
| 2:19.9 | Now, until June 1st, you can learn more and apply at tfiadvocate.org. We can't wait to meet you. If you enjoy this podcast, please be sure to leave a |
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