Fostering the Future Podcast

When Hayley and Gary are accused of child abuse – when they bring their 3 month to the hospital for help with an unexplained injury – their life takes a tragic turn. The result is Gary becoming a prisoner and Hayley fighting for her son and her husband and deciding to go to law school...

When Hayley and Gary are accused of child abuse – when they bring their 3 month to the hospital for help with an unexplained injury – their life takes a tragic turn. The result is Gary becoming a prisoner and Hayley fighting for her son and her husband and deciding to go to law school...

Megan and her husband, from Washington, experienced medical kidnapping when their son’s RSV turned into a nightmare. One trip to the ER when he was struggling with a cold and suddenly he was being intubated, which went awry, and then coded in a helicopter en route to a children’s hospital and had to have CPR...

Miranda Hager from Hope Restored Counseling joins Jack to discuss EMDR Therapy and how it can be an incredible solution for behaviors caused by trauma, especially for kids in foster care and those that work in child welfare. When we last spoke with Miranda, she was working for the local CAC (child advocacy center) as...

Carrie and Brady Timms are the parents of 2 year old Jameson. He started experiencing some concerning symptoms in his first months of life that had his parents bringing him to the doctor and the hospital trying to figure out. He would have discolorations appear on his body and then disappear. Sometimes within minutes they...

Diana and Corey Sullivan met in 6th grade and started dating in 8th grade. Married by 21, they immediately started trying to have children. When it didn’t work out they turned to fertility doctors and ended up conceiving their first child the first time they tried IVF. In hopes of providing their daughter with a...

Diana and Corey Sullivan met in 6th grade and started dating in 8th grade. Married by 21, they immediately started trying to have children. When it didn’t work out they turned to fertility doctors and ended up conceiving their first child the first time they tried IVF. In hopes of providing their daughter with a...

Diana and Corey Sullivan met in 6th grade and started dating in 8th grade. Married by 21, they immediately started trying to have children. When it didn’t work out they turned to fertility doctors and ended up conceiving their first child the first time they tried IVF. In hopes of providing their daughter with a...

We have an update for you regarding the Hernandez Family. An unexpected turn of events at a court hearing which was just supposed to age a review this week – resulted in the girls moving to family members (pending the resolution of the criminal charges) and Georgia DFCS closing the case against the Matt and...

Jack & Cat got a chance to chat with Richi from Tiktok about his post on the trending tok “Why do white people adopt black children?” We learned about his adoption from Haiti, along with his older biological brother (who may soon be younger). We chatted about his experience as a black man with white...

Samantha Haskins, a BCBA in Tampa Bay, Florida, chats with Jack about the use of ABA services for behaviors. While ABA is only covered by insurance for children with specific developmental disabilities, it can be effective for children with trauma as well. Sam explains the science of ABA, the process of ABA services, how it...

Jack & Christy chat with Tasha and her attorney, Valentina Villalobos, A mom in South Florida who has another story of medical abuse of power. Tasha and her husband had their 8 year old son and newborn twins removed after a child abuse pediatrician declared a diagnosis of abuse, despite the children having numerous medical...

Jack & Christy chat with Tasha and her attorney, Valentina Villalobos, A mom in South Florida who has another story of medical abuse of power. Tasha and her husband had their 8 year old son and newborn twins removed after a child abuse pediatrician declared a diagnosis of abuse, despite the children having numerous medical...

Jack & Christy chat with Tasha and her attorney, Valentina Villalobos, A mom in South Florida who has another story of medical abuse of power. Tasha and her husband had their 8 year old son and newborn twins removed after a child abuse pediatrician declared a diagnosis of abuse, despite the children having numerous medical...

Zielia Crespo, co-owner of Sensory Works in Dade City, Florida, join Jack & Nichole for a conversation about how occupational therapy can help improve behaviors. OT (occupational therapy) can seem like magic when your kids appear to just be playing with a therapist and within months you can see drastic improvements in their behavior. Whether...

Leigh Ann Drew from Family Initiatives join Jack & Cat for a conversation about how TBRI can help improve behaviors. TBRI (Trust Based Relational Intervention) was developed by the Kathryn Purvis Institute Of Child Development to be a trust based and trauma informed modality to support children who have experienced trauma. TBRI is based on...

Jack & Christy chat with Shelby, A mom in Georgia who has similar story of medical abuse of power. Shelby is one of dozens of moms in Georgia who had her child removed after a child abuse pediatrician declared a diagnosis of abuse, despite the child having diseases explaining the injuries. The Whiting Family (Shelby...

Jack & Christy continue their chat with Jennifer, A fostermom in Georgia who is helping the Hernandez family and many other families going through similar stories of medical abuse of power. Matt & Taki Hernandez noticed a swollen leg on their infant and brought her to the dr who referred her to CHOA and within...

A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. We chat about the consequences of child abuse pediatricians doubling down even in the face of diagnoses explaining injuries – and the consequence of that is the destruction of a family – versus the slap on the wrist they may get if they admitted...

A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how the agency who trained her to coparent had great concerns when she tried to coparent, and also how the agency would take Taki’s breastmilk and dispose of it without giving it to her child or informing her that they would not...