Episode 255: Processing Your Emotions After a Placement Disruption (w/ Kamrie Smith)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
When you decide to become a foster parent, you are asked a wide range of questions about what kind of placements you are willing to accept. What ages will you take? What ages won’t you take? Are there any special needs you will or won’t be able to accommodate? What about sibling groups?
Even when your agency is doing their best to reach out to you about children that fit your criteria, the reality is that sometimes all of the information about a child is simply not known. They may not know the specific behaviors a child presents, every piece of their history, or additional challenges that you may face. There are times where, despite everyone’s best intentions, a placement needs to be disrupted, which can be a decision filled with guilt, shame, and deep heartache.
My guest today has firsthand experience navigating a placement disruption and all the emotions that come along with it. Kamrie Smith is a mom to three biological children and a current foster mom to one. In total, she and her husband have fostered 21 children over the years. She is a founding committee member of Foster Montana, an organization that provides support to children entering foster care and the families who say “yes” to them.
In this episode, you’ll hear why it can be challenging to navigate a placement that feels like it isn’t going well, how to navigate the emotional aftermath of a disruption, how to make peace with the difficult decision of accepting or denying a potential placement, and more.
Find resources mentioned and more in the show notes for this episode: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/kamrie-smith-255/
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| 0:00.0 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:04.0 | This is The Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:08.6 | So there was a reason that she wasn't meant to be in our home long term. |
| 0:12.9 | And sometimes our kind of guilt-filled no is somebody else's wonderful blessing that they have been waiting for. |
| 0:23.4 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:25.2 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people |
| 0:29.8 | of foster care. |
| 0:31.2 | With every episode, our goal is to help you better understand the foster care community. |
| 0:35.8 | We want to bring you hope and encouragement |
| 0:38.2 | in your journey and help you support the agency workers, foster parents, vulnerable adults, |
| 0:44.0 | and children in foster care right where you live. If you want to learn more about TFI, |
| 0:49.6 | catch up on past episodes, read engaging articles or partner with us on mission with a gift of any amount, |
| 0:57.0 | head over to the forgotteninitiative.org. We are in this together. Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:05.8 | This. Camry Smith has been married to her rancher husband Brandon for eight years. |
| 1:21.2 | She is mom to three biological children and a current foster mom to a precious six-month-old girl, |
| 1:27.1 | which is the 21st child to come through |
| 1:29.6 | their door through foster care. She has been a first responder for 10 years and in leadership |
| 1:35.1 | of an ambulance service, and she is also a founding committee member of Foster Montana, an |
| 1:41.2 | organization that provides support to children entering foster care and to the families |
| 1:46.0 | who say yes to them. Camry, thank you so much for being on today. Thank you so much for having me, |
| 1:51.6 | Jamie. I'm excited to talk to you today. Yeah, me too. Well, I want to talk today about something that |
| 1:57.5 | actually can cause some people a lot of apprehension. It's a little bit of a |
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