Episode 243: Uncovering Your Story as a Former Foster Child (w/ Dr. Mary Ann McMillan)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
This week, I have a powerful story to share with you from a former foster child, adoptee, and advocate for human rights.
I am honored to introduce you to my guest, Dr. Mary Ann McMillan. She is a passionate advocate for foster youth and adoptees, whose advocacy is deeply personal because it’s inspired by her own experience as an adoptee who spent many years in foster care. Mary Ann serves as a professor and administrator at Jessup University in California and has previously served as a missionary in Ukraine and the Czech Republic, leading trainings in nearly 30 countries.
In this episode, you’ll hear Mary Ann’s personal experience in the foster care system, the importance of understanding and processing your past, the important role therapy has played in her story, and much more.
Find resources mentioned and more in the show notes for this episode: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/mary-ann-mcmillan-243/
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:04.0 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | When I became a believer, I realized that I may not have the earthly family or father that I've always wanted, but I have a heavenly father that has just been by my side from the beginning, even before I knew him. |
| 0:20.6 | And that is what has sustained me. |
| 0:22.3 | And I'm always plugged in with a local church, |
| 0:25.0 | always plugged in with some type of Bible study or small group |
| 0:27.9 | where I have people really helping me grow in my faith. |
| 0:31.3 | I don't know where I would be today without being a believer. |
| 0:35.6 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:37.3 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people |
| 0:42.0 | of foster care. |
| 0:43.6 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. |
| 0:49.1 | We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster |
| 0:55.2 | parents, vulnerable adults, and children in foster care right where you live. |
| 1:00.9 | If you want to learn more about TFI, catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles, |
| 1:06.5 | or partner with us on mission with a gift of any amount, head over to the forgotten initiative.org. |
| 1:14.2 | We are in this together. Thank you for listening and engaging with us. We love having you as part of |
| 1:21.3 | our family. Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:26.1 | Thank you. It is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:38.2 | Today I have the honor of introducing you to Dr. Marianne McMillan. |
| 1:44.0 | So Mary Ann is a passionate advocate for foster youth and adoptees. Her advocacy is deeply personal because |
| 1:47.5 | it's inspired by her own experience as an adoptee who spent many years in foster care. |
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