Let's Talk: A Foster Adopt Minnesota Podcast
Latest Episodes
Let’s Talk – Interview with a Foster Mom: Back-To-School Shopping Experience
Description: We chat with Lisa, a foster & adoptive mom, about her and her children’s experience with the Back-to-School Shopping Event last year! Learn more about this event: https://mnadopt.networkforgood.
Let’s Talk – The Reel Hope Project
Description: Kaycee Stanley joins us! Kaycee is an adoptive mom and founder & director of The Reel Hope Project. Reel Hope makes videos of kids in foster care in MN who…
Let’s Talk – MN ADOPT’s Fostering Network Program
Description: We chat with Kim Young: our Foster Care & Kinship Specialist. In honor of National Foster Care Month, we wanted to have Kim on to tell us more about…
Let’s Talk – Sensory Interventions to assist children in achieving greater regulation
Amie Summers, LGSW, SEP will introduce Sensory Motor Arousal and Regulation Treatment, a technique that teaches caregivers how to use sensory interventions to help children regulate, create stronger attachment bonding and heal trauma.
Let’s Talk – Finding Compassion and Space for children and caregivers during COVID-19
In this podcast, we welcome Mariah Rooney to talk about how caregivers can find compassion and spaciousness for themselves and the children in their care. MN ADOPT Website: www.mnadopt.org…
Let’s Talk – Helping Foster Parents Address COVID-19 with Their Children
In this podcast, we talk to Marc Markell, who teaches at St. Cloud University and at Worsham College of Mortuary Science. Marc is certified in Death and Grief Studies from…
Let’s Talk – Coping with Covid: A Conversation with Brenda Benning
In this podcast episode HELP Specialist Andrea talks with adoptive parent and therapist Brenda Benning on the common experiences families are having with the unique challenges of the Covid 19 pandemic. In this conversation Andrea and Brenda explore top...
Let’s Talk – HELP Program: An Overview
Learn more about MN ADOPT’s HELP program. Also, find resources available to you regarding COVID-19. Contact the HELP team: Phone: 612-746-5137 Email: HELP-program@mnadopt.org Website: https://www.mnadopt.org/help-prog/ MN ADOPT Website: www.
Let’s Talk – FAQ’s Part 2- Adoption in Minnesota
Let’s Talk Episode 2, FAQ’s Part 2- Interview with WendyLee Raun, MN ADOPT Education Coordinator Topics include: Question 1: Can a single person adopt? (1:05) Question 2: Can a same sex couple adopt? (1:59) Question 3: Do I need to own a house?…
Let’s Talk – FAQ’s Part 1 – Adoption in Minnesota
Let’s Talk Episode 1, FAQ’s 1- Interview with WendyLee Raun, MN ADOPT Education Coordinator Topics include: Question 1: What is the difference between adoption and foster care? (1:14) Question 2: How does private adoption differ from adoption from fost...