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 87: Beyond Exhaustion: Creating Breathing Room as a Foster Parent
BONUS: Expecting the Unexpected: Finding Purpose in the Long Wait or Failed Adoption
Episode 86: Life in Foster Care: What It’s Really Like
Episode 85: Good Grief: Navigating Loss in Foster Care
Episode 84: More than Coffee: Using Business for Kingdom Purposes
Episode 83: Messy Redemption: A Story of Healing from a Child in Foster Care, now Adoptive Mom
Episode 82: Navigating Court: Understanding Your Role as a Foster Parent
Episode 81: When Trauma and Puberty Meet: How to Help Your Child
Episode 80: Single+Foster Parenting: You are Needed
Episode 79: Managing It All: Family, Marriage, and Work
Episode 78: Honest Questions about Foster Care and Adoption and Answers You Need To Hear
Episode 77: Advocating for The Foster Care Community with The Forgotten Initiative
Episode 76: Fostering Teens: 3 Ways To Build Trust In The Early Days
Episode 75: The Surprising Thing About Foster Care
BONUS: Navigating Birth Parent Relationships
ENCORE: Traditional Parenting Vs. Trauma-Informed Parenting: Pursuing Connection with Your Child
Episode 74: Never Give Up Hope
Episode 73: The Birth Parent Perspective: What It’s Like Having Your Child Taken From You
Episode 72: Fighting Fear and Walking in Faith as a Foster Parent
Episode 71: A Pastor's Persistence, God's Provision
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