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 118: Even in Our Darkest Moments
Episode 117: Living a Life of Compassion and Surrender
Episode 116: Understanding Food Trauma & Food Insecurity
Episode 115: Reactive Attachment Disorder & Eternal Hope
Episode 114: Life as a Single Foster Mom
Episode 113: Torn Between Two Worlds: Shame, Honor, and Identity
Episode 112: The Messy Middle: Believing Hurt and Hope Can Coexist
BONUS: A Interview with Gaelin Elmore: Be a Vessel of Kindness
Episode 111: When You’ve Tried Everything in Parenting: Taking a Leap of Faith
Episode 110: The Uncomfortable Journey of Foster Care for a Child
Episode 109: God’s Heart for Families in Crisis and Your Role
Episode 108: Working Together as Foster Parents, Biological Parents, and Agency Workers
Episode 107: Saying Goodbye: Navigating Reunification as a Foster Parent
Episode 106: Two Sides Of Reunification: A Dad and a Foster Mom
Episode 105: Raising a Multiracial Family as a Black Foster Dad
Episode 104: Seeing the Beauty in Diversity
Episode 103: The New Foster Parent Experience
Episode 102: My Spouse Isn’t Ready to Be a Foster Parent
Episode 101: Entering Foster Care and Confronting Sexual Abuse
Episode 100: Spotting Child Abuse and Neglect after COVID-19
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