Episode 262: Hope for Healing from Adverse Childhood Experiences (w/ Angela Paganelli)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can affect children from any background, but those in foster care are especially vulnerable. There are ten main types of ACEs that have been identified—ranging from abuse to neglect to household dysfunction. All of them have the potential to negatively impact future outcomes for a child.
Our latest guest, Angela Paganelli, is a former foster youth who experienced all ten ACEs. After the tragic loss of her mother at the age of 13, Angela spent her teenage years in foster care and institutional settings. These formative experiences shaped her passion for supporting children in care, leading her to start her own foster care ministry.
Together with her husband, Rick, Angela has raised three biological children, fostered over 20 children, and adopted four. As a TBRI practitioner, Angela leverages her experience to advocate for trauma-informed care in the foster care system.
In this episode, Angela shares explains what ACEs are and what their long-term impacts can look like, why it’s crucial to help children in the foster care system feel seen, the power “do-overs” can have in one’s healing process, and much more.
Find resources mentioned and more in the show notes for this episode: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/angela-paganelli-262/
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| 0:00.0 | sharing the stories of the foster care community this is the forgotten podcast when we look at our |
| 0:09.6 | foster kids our adopted kids and we start to say you have no idea how precious you are you have no |
| 0:14.7 | idea how loved you are especially in a time when they are feeling toxic shame when they are |
| 0:19.1 | feeling this like I messed up, I messed up again, |
| 0:21.2 | I messed up again. That is a game changer for these kids. And that is the one thing that I never |
| 0:25.9 | had. So I think that we have to be very, very mindful of the words that we say to, around, |
| 0:31.2 | and about our kids, because it all comes back full circle. |
| 0:35.0 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome to the Forgotten Podcast, where we are highlighting the stories of the people of foster |
| 0:42.3 | care. |
| 0:43.3 | We want to bring you hope and encouragement in your journey and help you support the foster |
| 0:48.3 | care community where you live. |
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| 1:12.6 | Okay, it's time. Let's do this. |
| 1:19.6 | Angela Paganelli is a former foster youth whose life's story exemplifies resilience and compassion. After the |
| 1:30.2 | tragic loss of her mother at the age of 13, Angela spent her teenage years in foster care and |
| 1:37.0 | institutional settings. These formative experiences shaped her passion for supporting children in care, |
| 1:45.5 | leading her to start her own foster care ministry. Together with her husband Rick, Angela has raised three biological children, |
| 1:52.0 | fostered over 20 children, and adopted four, including two with special needs. As a TBRI |
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