Foster Care, Adoption, and Beyond: Untold Stories
FAB untold stories integrates story telling, research, and expert interviews to shed light on the complexity of foster care, adoption, youth homelessness, and related social work and urban topics, with the ultimate goal of raising awareness and building a more compassionate world. The host, Dr. Zayda Sorrell Medina, is a professor, social scientist, and author. Her research includes the study of the foster, adopt, homeless youth community, and she is also a former foster and homeless youth and foster-adopt parent.
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Foster Care, Adoption, and Beyond: Untold Stories
Episode 7 | Embracing My Unconventional Family
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This episode reveals the beauty and hiccups of having an unconventional family. I reflect upon my own unconventional family living with my Puerto Rican Jewish mom and Chinese siblings as a high school teenager. I conclude with tips and words of encouragement on how we can better understand our unconventional family from a strengths based approach.
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Dr. Zayda Sorrell Medina is a professor, social scientist, former foster and homeless youth, foster adoptive parent, author, and advocate.
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A new episode is released monthly on the 11th with special releases sprinkled throughout the year.
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