The Adoption and Fostering Podcast

Conversations - Dr Maude Champagne - Recovery when your child leaves home

Hello and welcome to conversations from the AandF podcast. 

In this episode to Dr Maude Champagne , social worker, psychotherapist and NVR practitioner who works in adoption and foster care. Specifically she works with parents who are experiencing violence and aggression and I asked her on to talk about parents experience of recovery once children, who are challenging, leave the home. 

There are links to her work below:

Recovery When Your Child who is aggressive no Longer Lives at Home

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

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Episode 223 - Social media bans and self care for men of a certain age.

Hello and welcome to this episode of from the AandF podcast. 

This episode is unofficially sponsored by Sainsbury's Supermarket. 

In this episode we unpack the pros and cons of social media bans and the specific challenges that many parents and carers of children with complex early lives and SEN face. 

We also get somewhat distracted by some self care and purchasing choices. We would welcome the findings of your Nectar app purchases. 

Below is the link to the FASD Ireland conference. A limited number of Early Bird tickets are now available - secure your place today: www.fasdireland.ie/conference

If you're an adoptive parent and are wanting to join the 'Walking with Families' online FB group you can join here 

or 

if you want to sign up to the weekly online support meetings for adopters caring for children with challenging behaviour you can do so here

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

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Conversations - Suzanne Scott - T.I.P

Hello and welcome to conversations from the AandF podcast. 

 

In this episode I speak with Suzanne Scott, she is the founder of Trauma informed parenting based in Scotland. Suzanne supports parents and professionals to move from fear and control to a trauma informed approach to strengthen relationships with children and affect change in them. She shares her own experience of parenting children with complex needs as well as being a foster carer and not the work she does across the UK.

Here are some links to Suzanne's work.

FB

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1ZmGwbMA28/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Website

https://www.traumainformedparenting.uk/

Eventbrite

https://www.eventbrite.com/o/25265000625

 

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

 

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Episode 222 - New Year New Hosts - Paula and Tris

Hello and welcome the AandF podcast, it the New Year so our better halves,Paula and Tris, join us to catch up on the year and join the banter.  

We unpack the year and catch up with them and after a slow start we discuss the challenges and new experience of parenting adult children with the subsequent surprising rewards. At no point is there any marital strife! 

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

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Better Me Better Us Episode 32 - Own It

In this episode we explore the responsibility adults and professionals carry to own their behaviours, words, and actions, especially when working with children. From everyday interactions to moments of conflict and repair, we unpack why accountability is not about perfection, but integrity.

We discuss how children learn more from what we model than what we say, why owning mistakes builds trust and emotional safety, and how this is especially vital in fostering and adoption, where many children have experienced broken promises and unmet accountability. 

As always you can connect with us through the following -

Instagram- BMBUltd

Facebook – Better Me Better Us

Email – info@bettermebetterus.co.uk

Converations - Nick, Tiegan and the Adoption Satisfaction Survey

Hello and welcome to the AandF podcast. 

In this  episode I speak to adult adoptee Tiegen Boyens and social worker/researcher Nick Burke. They are undertaking research examining the adoptee quality of life for those between 16 and 25. Tiegan and Nick unpack the reason behind the research and how the topics and questions were identified though focus group with a range of adoptees. 

You can access the survey here

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

 

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Adoption Disruption - Adoptive parent & SW Amy

Hello and welcome to the A&F Podcast. In this episode we're continuing to look at parenting from a distance and adoption disruption. It's a hugely sensitive matter with the impact on children adults and professionals often being catastrophic.

Here, I speak to Amy an adoptive parent and social worker and she describes the events that led to crisis and the response of the system.

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

 

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Episode of the Year - 206 FASD with Anna Webster

This episode resinated with so many of our listeners. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder remains under discussed with a growing understanding of the prevalence and impact that many children are living with. 

In this episode of the A&F podcast we speak to adoptive parent and Neurodiversity Coaching Psychologist Anna Webster. She shares her experience of parenting a child with a diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and the development of the Neurowise Programme on Therapeutic Caregiving for FASD. 

It is a genuinely fascinating chat and we both drew lots of new information and thinking about the role of parents and the specific challenges parents and carers of children with FASD face. 

Anna is on X here

and Linkedin here

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

 

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Christmas Podcast with Fiona Wells from Patch

Hello and welcome to the AandF podcast Christmas special. 

In this episode we streamed live to Facebook and chat with Fiona Wells from Patch.

We unpack all that's been happening with the raised awareness of the levels of adversity all members of adoptive households are having. There is a crisis in the adoption community and Fiona has spearheaded the news and bringing of many families together. 

Oh, and it's Christmas we share our top tips! It's a little raucous but that's how we roll. 

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

 

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Conversations - Helio, Adult International Adoptee

Hello and welcome to conversations from the AandF podcast. 

In this episode I speak with Helio an adult adoptee, he shares his experience of being adopted from Brazil to an Italian family. There’s so much more to his story and as an adult he went onto what was a complex journey to reconnect with his biological mother. His resilience and the murky circumstances of his adoption are remarkable and it’s well worth a listen. 

You can follow Helio on instagram here. 

As always if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

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