Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care
Creating a Family
4.7from 379 ratings
- 794
- Episodes
- 116
- Transcribed
- 379
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
- 38K
- YouTube views
About Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care
Are you thinking about adopting or fostering a child? Confused about all the options and wondering where to begin? Or are you an adoptive or foster parent or kinship caregiver trying to be the best parent possible to this precious child? This is the podcast for you! Every week, we interview leading experts for an hour, discussing the topics you care about in deciding whether to adopt/foster or how to be a better parent. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org (http://www.creatingafamily.org/). We are the national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content: weekly podcasts, weekly articles, and resource pages on all aspects of family building at our website, CreatingaFamily.org. We also have an active presence on many social media platforms. Please like or follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram and X (formerly Twitter).
- Publisher
- Creating a Family
- Category
- business · kids & family · kids & family
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 27 Mar 2013
- Latest episode
- 10 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
116 of 794 episodes have a transcript.
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Inside a recent episode
What Do I Look For In A Trauma-Informed Parenting Model?
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, 100%. You're nailing it. I think I was so fortunate to go to a graduate program for my counseling degree that was really focused on building self-awareness. The more self-awareness you have, the more you know about yourself, your own reactions, your own history, the connections between the past and the present and all of those things, the better parent you will be. The more trauma responsive you can be because all the things that you just said are about self-awareness. Knowing yourself better will help you be a better, more present, caring, compassionate parent or caregiver. Yeah. And that's the key word for me. […]
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- Chris McKenna
- Adrian Potter
- Beth Tyson
- CJ Scarlet
- Debbie Price
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- YouTube views
- 37,830
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 301 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 78 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100
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- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 97
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