Episode 55: A New School Year -- Advocating for Our Kids from Trauma Backgrounds
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Catie Lumpkin and her husband Jamie began fostering about nine years ago. At the time, they had three young sons (age 4, 2 and 1) and had been considering adoption. They had the opportunity to love on a mother in crisis for a period of time and soon after, Jamie mentioned the option of becoming foster parents. Catie said no at first, but her heart was changed as they became more involved in seeking to improve those in need in their city. They have fostered more than 80 children since then, and recently adopted two of those children and welcomed their fourth biological son to the family. Catie shares tips and suggestions for making the transition to the school year go as smoothly as possible for children who have experienced trauma.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Forgotten podcast, bringing voice to the foster care community. |
| 0:12.2 | Soon after I had to re-enter all that with humility and just own, you know what, I don't know how to do this. |
| 0:18.3 | Will you help me? What does it look like to come alongside you as the teacher? |
| 0:21.6 | And what we saw was as we enter with humility and we're quick to repent and just kind of talk about those things, |
| 0:28.6 | you know, the teachers responded with humility, okay, I don't know how to do this either. Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:51.2 | Hello and welcome to the forgotten podcast. |
| 0:56.3 | Today we are talking to my good friend and team member, Katie Lumpkin. Katie serves in Alabama as one of our TFI advocates, and she |
| 1:03.7 | and her husband Jamie have six forever kids and have fostered over 80 children, 80 children, ranging in ages from zero to 18, |
| 1:14.5 | and she is a trained empowered to connect instructor. |
| 1:17.6 | So she brings with her a wealth of real life experience and wisdom. |
| 1:23.1 | Well, now that summer is about to wrap up, and maybe it already has for a few of you, |
| 1:27.3 | this conversation |
| 1:28.2 | is quite timely. We will talk about helping our kids navigate school, supporting and building |
| 1:34.2 | relationships with their teachers, and how to give ourselves grace in the process. I really loved |
| 1:41.0 | my conversation with Katie. And I want you to note that Katie is going to share some resources that I know you're going to want to check out. |
| 1:47.9 | So you jot them down during the conversation or you can just head over to our show notes at the forgotten initiative.org slash S5E5 for Season 5, Episode 5. |
| 1:59.7 | All right. |
| 2:00.3 | Let's go now to my interview with Katie Lumpkin. |
| 2:09.0 | Well, summer is just about to end, and kids are going to be heading back to school. |
| 2:15.1 | And we know that kids who've experienced trauma have behaviors and |
| 2:19.4 | reactions related to that trauma that are not always supported well in schools. And so I am really |
| 2:26.7 | excited to have you on Katie because I want to talk school. I want to talk how we can support |
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