Episode 233: You Don't Have to Foster to Care (w/ Maddie Box)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
You will often hear us say, “You don’t have to foster to care.” One of the most important aspects of foster parenting (without burning out) is having a supportive community of people around you.
I have the honor today of talking with someone in this critical support role. Maddie Box is 26 years old and works as a pediatric speech-language pathologist, and she has organically found herself in the role of a support person to multiple foster parents.
In this episode, you’ll hear how this role is far more critical than many people realize, some of the simple ways foster parents need support, the most practical way to offer help, and so much more.
Show Notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/maddie-box-233/
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:04.0 | This is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | And it's those small things, you know, dropping off a meal, offering to do a load of laundry, |
| 0:11.2 | playing with the kids for an hour to let the parent go take a shower, like little sticky notes |
| 0:17.6 | and being like putting them, you know, when you're over at their house, putting it in the bathroom or something. I hear you, I see you. Let's dig deeper. I think that |
| 0:25.4 | can be helpful. Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast where we are highlighting |
| 0:31.9 | the stories of the people of foster care. With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care |
| 0:39.5 | community. We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the |
| 0:45.3 | agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you |
| 0:51.3 | live. If you want to learn more about TFI, |
| 0:54.6 | catch up on past episodes, |
| 0:56.4 | read engaging articles, |
| 0:58.0 | or partner with us on mission |
| 0:59.7 | with a gift of any amount, |
| 1:02.2 | head over to theforgotteninitiative.org. |
| 1:05.9 | We are in this together. |
| 1:08.2 | Thank you for listening and engaging with us. |
| 1:13.1 | We love having you as part of our family. Okay, it is time. Let's do this. Well, today we are going to talk to someone who holds a |
| 1:22.7 | critical role in the life of a foster parent. Someone who is not paid to serve is not necessarily an expert in the |
| 1:30.7 | field and who sometimes might wonder, is my contribution even that helpful? And yet it is incredibly |
| 1:37.8 | critical. And this is the role of a supporter of someone who is a foster parent. And today we're |
| 1:43.8 | going to talk to Maddie Box. |
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