Episode 196: From Foster Youth to PhD (w/ Dr. Danisha Keating)

The Forgotten Podcast

The Forgotten Initiative

Christian, Kids & Family, Fostercare, Family, Adoption

4.9 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

This is your fault. If you want to stay out of foster care, you’d better behave. If you don’t change your attitude, then they’ll separate you from your siblings.

Can you imagine hearing these messages growing up? This is often the message that is conveyed to children from hard places or who are at risk of entering foster care. They grow up carrying around this guilt and believing they are why their families fell apart. But what they don’t always come to realize is that it was never their fault.

I am grateful to have Dr. Danisha Keating with me on the podcast as she shares her journey of growing up in an abusive and neglectful household where she cared for her siblings. Danisha is a former foster youth and was a guardian to five of her siblings as an adult. She loves to encourage foster care advocates and foster youth to go after their dreams and goals. While Danisha’s journey has not been an easy one, it has helped her find her life’s work.

Thank you for joining me for this conversation with Danisha!

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Show Notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/danisha-keating-196/

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0:00.0	Sharing the stories of the foster care community. This is The Forgotten podcast. All of it happened, and I blamed myself forever. And it wasn't until I was like 19 or 20 that someone looked at me and they said, Denisea, this was not your fault. And you've been carrying that forever.
0:30.1	Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster care. With every episode, our goal is to help you better
0:35.5	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 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.
1:28.3	Today I am grateful to have Dr. Danisha Keating with me on the podcast, and I want to tell you a little bit about her.
1:34.9	Denisea is a former foster youth and was a guardian of five, five of her siblings.
1:41.4	She loves to encourage both foster youth to really go after their dreams and goals. And she also wants to encourage and loves encouraging foster care advocates
1:45.5	to provide support to the foster youth in their life. Her journey has not been an easy one.
1:52.8	And yet it has been part of her finding really her life's work. So let's dig in.
1:59.0	Deniseha, as you think about your childhood, and thank you for being on.
2:03.6	Let's start there.
2:04.6	Thank you for coming on.
2:06.6	Thank you for having me.
2:07.6	Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this conversation.
2:10.6	I want to kind of dive into your childhood because it seems like there are specific ages that marked kind of moments, big moments in your life.
2:20.1	And the first one that you have shared with us prior was 13 when CPS became involved in your life.
2:28.6	However, I would love it if we could back up just a little bit earlier.
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