Faith To Action's Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Scripture clearly calls us to care for the orphan, but beyond adoption and orphanages what might that look like in our everyday lives? Join us for a powerful conversation that explores how Christians today can best serve the orphan.
Featuring Kayla Craig (author), Dr. Lauren Pinkston (Kindred Exchange), Kristin Langrehr (111Project), and Stephanie Robinson (Faith to Action)
This podcast addresses the key elements of a successful adoption program, how to recruit adoptive families, post-adoption support, and some of the biggest challenges.
Featuring Kristi Gleason (Vice President of Refugee and Immigrant Family Services) [Date: June 24, 2022]
This podcast addresses the key elements of a successful foster care program, how to recruit foster families, and some of the biggest challenges.
Featuring Tara and Jorge Garcia (co-Founders, Identity Mission) [Date: May 25, 2022]
An interview with Kelley Bunkers, an international child protection and social welfare consultant, and a senior partner with Maestral International, about her experience with case management. Kelley shares with us about the key elements of child centered case management.
An interview with Peter Kamau, Founding Partner of Child in Family Focus – Kenya, about his experience growing up in an orphanage. Peter provides insight about why many careleavers struggle after leaving care; the best services to offer careleavers; and resources to help those supporting careleavers.
Dr. Delia Pop with Hope and Homes for Children provides helpful information for organizations transitioning children’s care away from residential care to care within families. She provides an overview of the key concepts and steps that are important to a successful transition process.
Randy Daniels with Buckner International reflects on Buckner’s transition to family care experience and lessons learned on an organizational and community-based level.
Rebecca Nhep with ACCI Relief explores important considerations for gatekeeping practices to secure appropriate family placements for children. She highlights practical examples of gatekeeping from faith-based organizations in Southeast Asia and Lesotho who promote positive family placements for children leaving residential care.
Florence Martin with the Better Care Network (BCN) breaks down the steps needed in effective gatekeeping to ensure appropriate family placements. She also highlights findings from BCN’s publication – Making Decisions for the Better Care of Children – which describes the critical role of gatekeeping in strengthening family-based care.
Emily DeLap with Family for Every Child shares excellent insights from the new Guidelines on Children’s Reintegration, and shares encouraging stories and concrete examples of reintegration from several regions of the world.
Emily DeLap with Family for Every Child provides a substantial overview of the cross-cutting principles for successful reintegration, and what needs to be in place for healthy reunification of children with their families.
Maggie Crewes with Retrak shares insights from Retrak’s experience engaging with older youth who are separated from their families to secure their healthy reunification. Maggie also provides guidelines for engaging youth in the process, essential follow-up services, and what it means to families when their children return home.
A Conversation with Bright Hope on Strategies for Strengthening Family Care discusses key strategies for expanding the capacity of families to care for orphans and vulnerable children through livelihood support. Introduced in Webinar 3 and Podcast 3, Bright Hope explains the importance of family-strengthening, and shares stories and examples of how livelihood support helps prevent the placement of children into orphanages.
A Conversation with HelpKids Centre on Strategies for Strengthening Family Care discusses key strategies for expanding the capacity of families to care for orphans and vulnerable children through daycare support, emotional and spiritual support and/or parental training that eases the burdens of caregivers. Introduced in Webinar 3 and Podcast 3, HelpKids Centre explains the importance of family-strengthening, and shares stories and examples of these strategies that help prevent the placement of children into orphanages.
This podcast presents key strategies for expanding the capacity of families to care for orphans and vulnerable children. Through conversations with HelpKids Centre and Bright Hope, this podcast introduces the importance of family-strengthening strategies including: livelihood support, daycare support, emotional and spiritual support and/or parental training that eases the burdens of caregivers. This podcast links with two different podcasts highlighting family-strengthening work of HelpKids Centre as well as Bright Hope.
This podcast looks at the range of alternative care for children who have been separated from parental care and emphasizes family care. Alternative care includes: kinship care, foster care, adoption, and formal residential care such as temporary rehabilitative care and small group homes. Large-scale institutional care is not recommended. This podcast explores the importance of transitioning children to family care through reunification or alternative family care whenever possible. Key resources used and discussed in this podcast draw from A Continuum of Care for Orphans and Vulnerable Children and Children, Orphanages, and Families: A Summary of Research to Help Guide Faith-Based Action.
This podcast presents introductory information from both the Faith to Action website and from the Summary of Research to Help Guide Faith-Based Action. This podcast highlights key orphan and vulnerable children statistics; reasons for placement in orphanages; findings on the importance of family and limitations of orphanages; and highlights Faith to Action resources for further information.