Parenting Thru Trauma - A Podcast Resource for Parents, Professionals and Policymakers

Twins Tiffany and Kimberly Brown, age 27, bounced from foster home to foster home as children until they found permanency (along with their younger brother) with Family Forward Advocacy CT co-founder, Cheryl Brown. Their journey began with a series of removals, numerous foster placements, and prolonged separation from several other siblings. Weekly supervised visits kept emotions raw and adoptive family attachment complicated. Their school-aged years were wrought with misguided state child-serving systems interference, intense psychological needs left unmet by the psychiatric community, and they struggled to fully achieve emotional grounding until young adulthood. In this podcast, you will meet these dynamic women as they talk about their attachment and emotional struggles to survive. Their educational and professional achievements, fueled by twin competition and a desire to not let their past define them, continue to lead both with connection and purpose to a hope-filled life. Spend an hour with Kimberly and Tiffiany and discover how regardless of your experience and feelings of lost hope now, hope can, in fact, be restored. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Trends in Child Welfare are an important topic as the removal of children, even infants, from the care of their biological parent(s) is traumatic on children. Statistic suggests that only 20% of the children in foster care today are there as a result of bona fide, evidence-based neglect, or abuse. This statistic also then suggests that 80% of children were removed and are in the custody of state child welfare agencies for other reasons. What are those reasons and how does federal funding influence state child welfare policies, practices, programs, and removal protocols? The Family First Prevention Services Act was signed into law in February of 2018. Its goal is to shift child welfare practices by shifting a portion of funding and outcome measures by reducing the number of kids coming into foster care by providing funding for prevention services, kinship placement, and earlier access to child mental health care. In the episode, we speak to attorney Connie Reguli about her family law defense practice in TN, her child welfare reform advocacy, and the trends she sees in the practice of child welfare. Find Connie Reguli at www.FamilyForwardFoundation.com For more on Family Forward Advocacy CT visit www.FamilyForwardAdvocacyCT.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A Parenting Thru Trauma Podcast introduction - Parents Parenting Thru Trauma know how hard and often dangerous it can be to support, contain, and keep traumatized kids safe. Helping them heal to eventually thrive isn't for the faint of heart. The heightened state of alert they live in every day can be complicated and riddled with chaos and crises. We can help. Listen to our introduction as we will launch on March 2nd, 2021 with information, tips, strategies, and more. You are not alone...anymore! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app