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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care
English - June 19, 2024 06:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Health & Fitness adoption adopting a baby adoptive parenting foster care foster parent trauma-informed parenting international adoption parenting infant adoption fostering Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Join this inspiring discussion with two former foster youths who talk about their time in foster care and how that experience shaped them. Lanitta was a pregnant and parenting teen growing up in the North Carolina foster care system. In May of 2022, she joined the 2% population of former foster youth that graduate from post-secondary education with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and finance. Mayia Warren was in foster care and later adopted by her grandmother. She has multiple invisible disabilities, albinism, and is visually impaired. In the spring of 2021, Mayia graduated with a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology. She is an advocate in multiple fields such as: disability, foster care, children and families, and wellness. She is also an independent recording artist, poet, author and philanthropist.
In this episode, we cover:
Snippet of Mayia’s new album: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t9j1coN76ZarHnTDkDClXYuPZm2ya-t3/view?usp=drivesdk
Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
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