Episode 234: Finding Forever Families for Every Child (w/ Kaycee Stanley)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Can you remember the child, family, or experience that inspired you to become a part of the foster care community? It’s likely you were inspired because you heard their story or got to see their action firsthand.
With an understanding of the power of story and a passion for children who are waiting for their forever families, Kaycee Stanley and her husband, Pete, launched The Reel Hope Project.
The Reel Hope Project tells the stories of children awaiting an adoptive family using videos as a recruitment resource for prospective adoptive families. Their goal is to see an end to youth waiting for families by mobilizing the church to take action.
In this episode, you’ll hear how God has used these videos to inspire action, how the Church can make a difference for children waiting for families, how they are supporting agency workers in giving children a voice, and so much more!
Show Notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/kaycee-stanley-234/
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:06.5 | So we started, I kind of thought, this will be a one-to-one matching process. The Johnson family sees Susie, |
| 0:11.7 | they fall in love with Susie, they adopt Susie, tie bow on it, clean, done. Obviously, |
| 0:16.5 | that's not how it works. So much of the time. And often the stories that we hear are like, |
| 0:21.6 | we saw Susie's video, we fell in love with Susie, God led us into the process through Susie. |
| 0:27.5 | But by the time we got through all the training and licensing and home study, Susie |
| 0:31.9 | already was matched with another family. But we knew that God was leaving us somewhere. And so |
| 0:36.5 | we stayed in the process, and we |
| 0:37.9 | ended up adopting a child. That's been so fun and so unexpected to kind of see how God would |
| 0:43.2 | work in all the complexity of the systems that we navigate to still be bringing kids on. |
| 0:47.9 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories |
| 0:53.1 | of the people of foster care. |
| 0:55.6 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. |
| 1:01.1 | We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency |
| 1:06.2 | workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. |
| 1:12.8 | If you want to learn more about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles, |
| 1:18.5 | or partner with us on mission with a gift of any amount, head over to the forgotteninitiative.org. |
| 1:26.5 | We are in this together. |
| 1:28.7 | Thank you for listening and engaging with us. |
| 1:31.5 | We love having you as part of our family. |
| 1:34.7 | Okay, it is time. |
| 1:36.8 | Let's do this. |
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