Episode 33: Foster Care Basics: Everything from How To Be a Foster Parent to Staying Organized

The Forgotten Podcast

The Forgotten Initiative

Christian, Family, Adoption, Kids & Family, Fostercare

4.9 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Aurie Good is a pastor’s wife and homeschooling mother of five children, two biological, one adopted from foster care and two in the process of adopting from foster care. She has developed great strategies to help you keep your sanity while parenting and maintaining the mountain of paperwork required while fostering. She and her husband, Ken, have fostered 11 children during their nine years of foster parenting in New Jersey. All of the children who have come into their home have been medically fragile, requiring even more paperwork and organization. Aurie shares not only great tips, but she’s included a link to a PDF of “The Binder”—an organizational tool she’s developed. Don’t miss it!

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community.
0:20.4	If you're thinking about foster care or you're a brand new foster parent, I get the fear,
0:24.9	I get the uncertainty, I get the wondering if you made the right decision, I get the midnight
0:30.7	call and you're not sure what you're going to do, I get the sleepless nights and you just feel
0:35.5	like you're not going to make it. And I just want to remind you that you just said yes. And that's what's important. So when that call came through about that child, you said yes. And all you need to remember is you're just going to say yes every morning. And it's not a big thing. You don't have to look 10 years down the road. Just concentrate one day at a time. And every morning you're going to wake up and you're going to say yes, I'm going to get up and I'm going to take care of this child and I'm going to love on this child today. And even those days when that child is just so hard to love, God is just going to give you that grace and he's going to sustain you and you're going to make it through the day and the next morning you're going to get up and you're going to say yes again.
1:20.9	Hey, it's Jamie Cabe.
1:22.6	Welcome back to The Forgotten Podcast.
1:25.0	You can find out more about today's episode by visiting the forgotten
1:28.7	initiative.org slash S3E8. That's for season three, episode eight. Well, if you are someone who is
1:38.7	brand new to foster care or you are thinking about stepping out and doing this thing called foster care,
1:46.6	this show is for you. We're going to talk to our guest, Ory Good, about things like,
1:53.1	where do you even start when you are interested in foster care? What are some questions you
1:57.6	should ask when you receive the call and how much information will you receive
2:02.6	about the child they are asking you to foster and many many more types of questions like that
2:09.5	ory good is going to bring you a wealth of information she is a homeschooling mom she has five kids
2:17.2	nine years old and under two of her kids are biological.
2:22.0	One, they have adopted from foster care, and two of them they are fostering currently.
2:28.4	Ori is a huge advocate for foster care and adoption.
2:32.5	She also has several resources where you can go and download them
2:35.6	directly off her website at Our Goodfamily.org. You can find the link to her site from our show
2:43.7	notes page as well. Now, Ori will mention that her kids that they fostered and the one that they've
2:50.1	adopted are medically fragile.
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