Episode 195: A Family Reunified (w/ Jackie Polk)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
What are the factors that cause a child to enter foster care? Addiction? Abuse? The reality is, it's rarely a single situation.
Today's episode contains many factors that are all too common in foster care. For Jackie Polk, it was a combination of domestic violence and addiction that led to her children being removed from her care.
Jackie gave birth to twin boys, and 16 months later, the Department of Child Services (DCS) stepped in to remove her children. Her story includes addiction recovery, domestic violence, and eventually foster care reunification.
Today, she is coming up on six years of being clean and sober, is married, and has a two-month-old son in addition to her twins. Jackie's hope is that you find hope through hearing her story and realize that regardless of your circumstances, your story can be rewritten.
I hope you enjoy my conversation with Jackie as much as I did!
(Don't forget that through the month of August, a generous donor has offered a matching grant up to $20,000! Double your impact today.)
Show Notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/jackie-polk-195/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, it's Jamie. And before we get into the show, I am coming to you to have a little |
| 0:05.6 | family meeting at my house when I want to get the kids around some big idea or make sure |
| 0:13.4 | we're all on the same page. We call a family meeting and that's what I'm doing today. I really |
| 0:18.9 | value you. You as our listeners, I have met so many of you. I've heard from |
| 0:25.0 | so many of you. And I'm telling you, I love it. I love getting to do this with you. And I want to |
| 0:31.2 | let you know of something really cool that's happening here. We have a really special matching grant opportunity. Now, this is the first |
| 0:40.3 | time we've had a matching grant of this size. I announced this a couple weeks ago, but we have a |
| 0:47.1 | $20,000 matching grant. We have a generous ministry partner who really wanted to encourage generosity in you. |
| 0:57.4 | And they wanted to celebrate with us this big milestone we recently announced of |
| 1:04.1 | surpassing one million downloads on the podcast. |
| 1:10.1 | And so when they originally told us this, they extended this |
| 1:13.6 | matching grant opportunity through July, but guess what? We're going to extend it through August |
| 1:18.2 | 31st. Because if you aren't aware, the Forgotten Initiative is supported through the generosity |
| 1:25.4 | of people like you. This podcast and everything else we do |
| 1:29.9 | truly would not exist without the donations of people. And I personally want to ask you to consider |
| 1:38.1 | giving to us today. Would you consider giving $10, $20 or even $50 to help us continue doing this work? If you know anything about $9,000, $20, or even $50 to help us continue doing this work? |
| 1:47.1 | If you know anything about nonprofits, you know that the summer months are a time when donations |
| 1:52.6 | are especially scarce in general, and we are no exception. |
| 1:57.8 | This is a time for us where we could sincerely use your help. I just want to invite you to be |
| 2:03.8 | part of this work. Our ultimate trust and our hope and our dependencies on Christ, he has never |
| 2:10.2 | failed us yet. We have no doubt that he will be faithful. But he uses people like you and me. He invites us to be part of this work. |
| 2:20.8 | And that's what I'm asking you to do. I'm asking you to be part of the work of the forgotten |
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