Episode 199: A Unified Call to Foster (w/ Anna Koon)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever felt guilty that you couldn't do more? Wished you could simply help more children in foster care? Or perhaps you've felt like you've failed when you reach your limits?
You are not alone.
Anna Koon started her journey alongside the foster care community as a case worker and an adoption specialist. But she quickly wanted to do more, and was dipping into her personal finances to buy items to meet the needs of children in foster care. Anna and her husband couldn’t stand the thought of children sleeping at the DCS office when a foster family couldn’t be found, so they shifted roles to become foster parents specifically for respite and emergency placements.
Anna shares her unique journey with us from being a case worker to becoming a foster parent and insights along the way about supporting the foster care community. I was encouraged by our conversation and I hope you are as well!
Show Notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/anna-koon-199/
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:03.6 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:06.2 | God can use messy people for his glory. |
| 0:09.1 | And our messy motivations and our messy situations and our weird history, he can use it |
| 0:14.4 | for his glory and the goodness of children that we're serving or the caseworkers that |
| 0:18.5 | were interacting with and the parents that we're interacting with, too. |
| 0:25.0 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the |
| 0:30.1 | 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 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. |
| 1:25.5 | Well, I am very delighted to have Anna Kuhn on the podcast today. I'm going to tell you very briefly about her, but then I'm going to really give the mic to her to share |
| 1:29.8 | her story. You are married to Brendan. You've been married for five years, five plus years. |
| 1:35.4 | Well, when is your anniversary? In September, so almost five. |
| 1:39.3 | Oh, fantastic. Love it. You're living in Tennessee. And you have worn a variety of hats really in this |
| 1:47.6 | foster care space. You've been a caseworker, an adoption specialist, and even a foster parent. |
| 1:53.4 | Right. And so we're going to really talk about your journey into this whole world of foster care |
| 1:58.9 | and some of the things that you've learned. And that's really |
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