Starting listening to this as my interest grew in foster care. It was so eye opening and raw and helpful. Speaks truth and yet talks about hard things. Keep doing wonderful work!
I love this podcast!!! As a big foster sister( we have two little guys in our home currently) I love listening to the podcasts, it is very helpful and encouraging! I’m so glad she stays true to scripture( I was nervous about the episode about loving LGBTQ+ kids) it was true to what the Bible says❤️ I especially loved the episode with the two teens who had, had foster siblings (: I recommend this podcast a million times over! Thank you for all your great episodes! Please make more about the birth parent perspective if possible, those are my favorite -❤️foster care P.S also more episodes from the perspective of kids who have foster siblings like me❤️ Thank you for this great podcast!
I haven’t found any other podcast like this one! They have a great variety of guests that keep it very interesting to listen to. I love hearing the stories that people share. Awesome podcast and never boring!
Even if you are not a foster parent, this is a fantastic podcast! Personally, I am a foster parent and it is such an INSPIRATION. Honestly, when I’m having a hard day within the system, I listen to an episode in order to center myself and refocus. I definitely recommend!
This is the best podcast out there! Listening to the stories of former foster children is so eye opening and really helps spread awareness that leads to action in supporting this community. I’m so thankful for this podcast, as it has also provided encouragement and helpful information for our respite foster care journey.
This is a great podcast for those in the trenches of foster care AND for those interested in learning about how to support and love this often forgotten community in our world. You need to listen to this podcast!
I wish the overview of the podcast would specifically outline how much she talks about religion. That would be good to know before subscribing. I am not religious but I am a foster parent so I feel conflicted with this.
Wow! Shreya—you are so inspiring! I was captivated by your story and your overwhelming trust in God’s plan for your life. It was so cool to hear how your parents were looking into foster care but at the same time your mother kept getting nudges to adopt from India. God does things like that! I look forward to following your God-driven story in years to come. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for your work on this podcast. We have been fostering 3+ years and are in a really difficult season with our foster child. Is it possible to hear from veteran foster parents and how they made it through those tough seasons and lasted 10,20,30+ years as foster parents? Thanks again for your work on this podcast.
I’m not a foster parent yet, I don’t attend any kind of church, Christianity isn’t my jam, but I ADORE this podcast. Loving, insightful, compassionate, helpful and beautifully varied, I am so thankful I found this show.
We want to foster, we will foster, and now I feel like we have a few more tools in the toolbox to bring our family to a child that needs it, whether for ten minutes, ten days, months or years.
Please keep up the great work of bringing different perspectives to the show and explaining how kiddos might be feeling and how we can be loving supportive grownups in their lives.
Thank you💜💜
As a foster mom, I am thankful for Jamie’s humble heart and fierce love for the community of foster care. Her perspective has been life-giving to my husband and I. Thank you, TFI and keep up the amazing work.
I am not observantly religious, but as a mother and person who works with foster families, there is ALWAYS something profound to hear in Jamie’s interviews. I truly love this podcast.
I’ve listened on and off to a few episodes of this podcast, but more recently I’ve been listening all the time to past episodes;) just today I listened to the interview with the Gateway woods LARC worker and was so convicted when he talked about Christians who become comfortable right where they are, and that the Jesus we know calls us to action! This podcast is so worth listening too!!
I was hesitant to begin a podcast on foster care. I didn’t think it would help, was I wrong. I was hooked by the first episode. As a foster parent the topics are exactly what I need to hear. The people she interviews all do a great job telling their story. You won’t be disappointed by spending your time listening, your life will be touched and you will learn something!
This podcast was so helpful during my foster journey and is still helpful as I continue ministering in the foster care community. I love TFI and the podcast!
This podcast has been exactly what I needed in my foster journey and I have been amazed how often the subject is exactly what I needed for where I have been and the kids I have been with. Thank you for the heart and truth of it.
Such a supportive podcast. She does a great job sending an informative and caring message with each guest. That we’re all in this together, to help each other.
From the very first episode, I was hooked. I appreciate that this is a Christian based podcast; it’s definitely encouraging to see the church making moves to do as Jesus did, but more importantly, it’s wonderful to get such a wide range of opinions and insight from all different backgrounds. I love that they are hitting the topics that we have questions about that we didn’t realize we had questions about. This podcast is a great resource to use alongside your classes for, what I believe to be a well rounded look at foster care, adoption, reconciliation, and the Father’s love. Thanks for what you are doing.
Love the honesty of how difficult and overwhelming much of this life can be and yet the reality of our perspective in Christ. So encouraging. This has been the most encouraging and helpful podcast I have listened to since we adopted a 3 and 10 yr old sibling group from foster care.
I heard about this podcast about a year ago when we started our foster care process. I went all the way back to the very first episode and it wrecked me, I had to pull over while I was driving. It definitely has become one of the clear ways God has nudged me to continue on this journey!
You have been such a blessing to me and my community as we start a foster care ministry and as we continue to foster kids. I so appreciate all of the encouragement and wisdom
I often listen to foster and adoption podcast. But none of them bring me the encouragement I need to keep going the way this podcast does. There are plenty of resources out there on practical ways to help these kids, but not many that point us back to the Lord as our strength. Thank you for always bringing Biblical truth and encouragement to each podcast and reminding us that He is the true healer.
I’m in the adoption process and I love hearing all of these stories. I love hearing from the adults who grew up in the foster care process, their view point is invaluable. Thank you for all of your hard work and putting this resource together for us!
I know God led me to this podcast, but it sure felt like a coincidence when I was browsing and came across The Forgotten Initiative. I was simply looking for more encouragement and community as I do during any difficult life phase. Since subscribing, I have gladly shared episodes and recommended this podcast. Thank you especially Jami for putting your heart and soul into each and every episode.
As someone considering foster care I have found this podcast truly encouraging and uplifting while also being honest about the struggles that may arise.
I started listening to this podcast while I was going through the process to become a foster mom, I went back and listened to every show recorded! It has brought so much encouragement, wisdom and excitement to me on this journey! I’ve been a foster mom for one year now! I share this podcast with anyone who is interested in foster care!
Lord willing, getting ready to become a foster parent with my husband. While we wait for final approval, I have been so blessed by this podcast. I have heard new things and old things in a new, beautiful, God-glorifying way. Thank you for this podcast and for making Christ, glorifying him and serving others the center of it!
Finding this podcast has been a blessing as we start on our journey to becoming a foster family. Hearing the perspective of adults who were in care as kids, birth parents, and how to work with birth families have been great to hear.
“You are not alone,” are some of the most encouraging words I have received over the last 5 months of my husband and I serving as house parents for the NM Baptist Children’s Home. We serve as full time parents to 6-8 foster kids plus 2 of our bio kids! The practical tips and you share while always keeping it gospel centered encourage and challenge me in our daily ministry. If you have any connections to experienced house parents I would love to hear from their perspective! I would also love to hear about the practical ways people raise large 7+ kid families with trauma backgrounds. Thank you for all you do!
If something can be uplifting and grounding at the same time it’s this podcast. Through each episode you are uplifted and encouraged and at the same time brought to truth and foundation. Love it so much!
I love the mission of TFI in general and I really love this podcast — listening to the insights of the super guests on the show many of which are experts in the field, as well as folks sharing their hearts about foster care.
Love this podcast. I started listening a year ago as my family and I began our process of going through an information meeting to see if we were even interested in doing foster care to becoming licensed in April to getting our first official placement almost a month ago. I’ve been listening to this podcast this whole time while going through this process and it’s been so encouraging and informative. It’s given me insight on things from empathy to the birth mom ( we’ve started a journal) to starting a donation drive for our local county while I was waiting to be licensed. Can’t say enough about this podcast and the The Forgotten Initiative
I am a new listener and have gained so much insight and practical tips on Foster Care & Adoption. It has also helped to put language around situations/ experiences I’ve had.
The structure of the show is well Organized and all the questions I have Jamie always seems to asks the guest. Thank you for the time and effort that are put into each one. Your obedience to the Lord is blessings us BIG.
I am barely on episode 6 but this podcast is so powerful and real I was a foster child along with my 6 siblings and I have always had a heart for foster parenting. This has been a tremendous encouragmeng
Keep up the amazing work(:
...I can’t get past the silly religious stuff. Its impossible for me to simply brush off the immense blind spot required to ignore that their god allows children to be hurt so terribly that they end up in foster care in the first place.
I recently found this podcast and am so thankful for it. As an adoptive and foster mom, the insights I’ve gleaned are so helpful and real. The host is wonderful and the guests are amazing!
This is such an awesome resource for foster parents and others that are thinking about fostering. I love how much everyone leans on Jesus in the process because he is the only way.
This has been such a blessing as we start our journey of foster care. It is honest, eye opening, and incredibly helpful. I love the resources available in this podcast!
Such a beautiful podcast! Beautiful stories of hope and redemption through fostering, and also honestly wrestling with the difficulty and pain that can come with loving kids from hard places. I love this show, keep it up!
