Many agency workers who serve the foster care community choose this path out of a passion for helping others. But transitioning into this challenging career can often be a very overwhelming experience. Even when workers are doing their best, they can start to feel like they’re not doing enough and that they don’t have a support system to fall back on in their times of need.
Brian Gazdziak is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker as well as a foster and adoptive dad. He has spent years providing specialized mental health therapy to help people, such as those in the foster care community, cope with life challenges. As someone who has experienced foster care from the perspective of both an agency worker and a foster parent, Brian has unique insights and empathy surrounding the topic of these complex relationships.
In this episode, Brian shares what it’s like to work with children and families in a hands-on capacity, how churches can provide much-needed support to foster care workers, how to build a better relationship with case workers, and so much more.
Show Notes: https://theforgotteninitiative.org/brian-gazdziak-226/
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Episode 234: Finding Forever Families for Every Child (w/ Kaycee Stanley)
Episode 233: You Don't Have to Foster to Care (w/ Maddie Box)
Episode 232: Advocating for Children in Foster Care as CASAs (w/ Travis & Stephanie Johnson)
Episode 231: Lessons from a 30-Year Career in Social Work (w/ Carmen Nance)
Episode 230: From Foster Care to Motherhood: A Redemption Story (w/ Tash Haynes)
Episode 229: How a Foster Mom and Birth Mom Became Family (w/ Jillana Goble & Jennifer Bracken)
Episode 228 - Family Discipleship: A Guide to Guiding Your Kids (w/ Sarah Cowan Johnson)
Episode 227: Picking Up the Pieces of a Misplaced Childhood (w/ Joan Ulsher)
Episode 225: Becoming an Emotional Safety Net For Your Child (w/ Michelle Nietert)
Episode 224: From Adoptee to Adoptive Mom (w/ Cami Haussler)
Episode 223: When Motherhood Involves Unexpected Challenges (w/ Katie Faris)
Episode 222: Learning How to Give and Receive Care (w/ Randall Nichols)
Episode 221: A Complicated Journey of Foster Care & Motherhood (w/ Lisa Qualls)
Episode 220: Finding Treasures in the Darkness (w/ Katherine Wolf)
Episode 219: The Pain of Entering Foster Care (w/ DREION)
Episode 218: Deeper Than Sunday (w/ Desiree Jacobs)
Episode 217: We Need Dads (w/ Joey Eells)
Episode 216: Beyond Our Control (w/ Michael & Lauren McAfee)
Episode 215: Giving God Your “Yes” (w/ Jenn Hand)
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