Episode 187: Making an Impact that Goes Beyond a Child (w/ Sarah Hamaker)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is proof that awareness leads to action, and that a passion for supporting the foster care community can span generations. Once you become aware of the needs, have seen them firsthand, or have seen your own family foster, it is hard not to answer the call to take on a supporting role within the foster care community.
Sarah Hamaker first saw foster care in action from her own parents. They started fostering when she was a teenager and had a total of more than 40 children in their home over 30 years. This is initially what inspired her to be a foster parent herself. In addition to being a second-generation foster parent, Sarah is a therapeutic foster parent, speaker, award-winning author, podcaster, biblical parenting coach, and certified Leadership Parenting Coach™. She is passionate about helping parents develop strong relationships with their children.
In this episode, Sarah is sharing about how your impact goes beyond the children that are in your home, what you should do if you feel a pull towards foster care, why crying when a child in foster care leaves your home can be a gift to them, and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. This is The Forgotten podcast. If you feel a tug toward fostering, follow it. You know, it doesn't mean that you have to do it forever. It doesn't mean you have to say yes to every kid. But don't do it because you're scared. |
| 0:26.5 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:31.4 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster care. |
| 0:32.9 | 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 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 theforgotteninitiative.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. |
| 1:26.7 | Well, Sarah, I am so happy to have you on the show today. You are a second generation foster parent. |
| 1:31.2 | And what I mean by that is you, you grew up in a home where your parents fostered. In fact, they, you were only 12 when they first welcomed in children. |
| 1:38.8 | And in your home, you had over 40 kids through your home. And I can't wait to hear more about this in a little bit. |
| 1:45.4 | You're also a wife, mom of four teens. You're a therapeutic foster mom. And you wear a number of |
| 1:51.8 | other hats, speaker, author, coach. It is clear to me just by getting to know you a little bit |
| 1:57.8 | through my research that you have a heart to pour into people. |
| 2:01.5 | Yes. |
| 2:01.9 | So I would just love to hear, first of all, like you are 12 years old, which is a very challenging |
| 2:07.4 | age anyways, right? What was it like to have your parents say, we're going to become |
| 2:14.1 | foster parents? Yeah. Just to add to that, I was the youngest of four, |
| 2:19.9 | but my older siblings were 11, 13, and 15 years older than me. Older than you. |
| 2:26.5 | Yes. Oh, wow. Surprise. They say it's a wonderful surprise and I believe them. |
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