Meeting you right where you are on your foster care journey, this is The Forgotten Podcast.

Be open with the people around you who are already in your community about what you're thinking.

I think it's really tempting to figure it out on your own and then announce to people that you've been thinking about this for two

years. But I would really say, I think part of the value of having friends and community and family,

whether that's your church family or neighbors or whatever, is that they can come around

and help you think through that process even from the beginning.

Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast. Whether you are part of the

foster care community, passionate about serving or simply interested in learning more,

we are here for you. Today we're going to talk about what it's like to be a single foster parent with my guest

Hallie Graves. Hallie wears many hats in her life. Lawyer, speaker, writer, advocate, and

single foster mom to name a few. She is passionate about encouraging people to live fully in

light of the grace and freedom of Jesus and be all that he purposed them to be.

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now to my interview with Hallie well Hallie it is really good to have you on the show today. Foster parenting presents challenges and joys. And as a single foster parent, you have certainly faced those, but you also face unique challenges that a married foster parent does not. And I really want to get into that. But before we do,

will you just walk us through your journey to become a foster parent? Yeah. So I have actually

been in the foster care world for about 18 years now. Yeah. So I first encountered foster care

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