Jenell M. Jones is the author of “Shattered,” a book that shares her experience as an adoptive mother. Jenell is currently operating multiple early learning centers, which specialize in providing high quality learning experiences to children who experience trauma in low-income areas, while also raising 7 children! When she brought home Mercy she found out that her expectations about adoption were shattered.
Her passion is helping foster parents and adoptive parents ask the right questions on this journey. In this episode we get very real about the day-to-day challenges of raising children with mental and physical trauma. She gives advice to parents (and soon to be parents) on what they need to hear most about the foster care system. What questions do you ask social workers? What do you need to be prepared for when bringing home an older child? What do you need to know about trauma and loss?
This episode helps us understand how important it is that children find healing and what resources Jenell had to use to hopefully lead her daughter to find truth and peace in her story.
Adoption from Nigeria [S4E4]
I Call You Mine [S4E3]
What NOT TO SAY to Adoptive Parents (And How To Get It Right) [S4E2]
ADOPTION NOW Update [S4E1]
Open Adoption from the Adoptee's Perspective [S3E17]
A Birth Mother's Journey Through Open Adoption [S3E16]
Self Care for Adoptive Parents - Part 2 [S3E15]
Self Care for Adoptive Parents - Part 1 [S3E14]
Adopting From Haiti [S3E13]
How to Support a Family That is Adopting [S3E12]
Foster Care 101 [S3E11]
Adoption From Russia [S3E10]
Let's Talk Adoption and Politics [S3E9]
Adoptions, IVF and Embryo Donation! [S3E8]
Ghost Pregnancy - Part 2 [S3E7B]
Ghost Pregnancy - Part 1 [S3E7A]
Finding Her Birth Mother [S3E6]
A Birth Mother's Open Adoption Story [S3E5]
Adopting Twins [S3E4]
Human Trafficking and Adoption [S3E3]
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