Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care
Kids & Family
How do some kids survive a life of poverty, homelessness, abuse, and foster and eventually thrive? We talk with David Ambroz is a national poverty and child welfare expert and advocate and the author of the memoir, A Place Called Home. He was recognized by President Obama as an American Champion of Change. Currently serving as the Head of Community Engagement (West) for Amazon, Ambroz previously led Corporate Social Responsibility for Walt Disney Television, and has served as president of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission as well as a California Child Welfare Council member. After growing up homeless and then in foster care, he graduated from Vassar College and later earned his J.D. from UCLA School of Law. He is a foster dad and lives in Los Angeles, CA.
In this episode, we cover:
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Adopting as a Single Parent
What Do Kinship Caregivers Need to Succeed?
Fertility Preservation and Egg Freezing
How a Parent's History with Attachment and Trauma Impacts Adoption and Fostering
Adoption Tax Credit 2020
Evaluating Risk Factors in Foster Care
Maintaining Your Marriage & Relationships When Adopting or Fostering
Transitioning Home as a Newly Adoptive Family
What to Eat to Increase Your Odds of Success with IVF
Healing After Abuse and Neglect
Adopting a Child from Another State
Impact of COVID-19 on Surrogacy
Legal Process of Domestic Adoption: What You Need to Know Before You Adopt
Coping with the Stress of Infertility
Talking with Your Adopted or Foster Child about the Hard Parts of Their Story
The Holidays with Adopted or Foster Kids Who’ve Been Exposed to Trauma
Collaborative Parenting
Disrupting Birth Order in Adoption and Foster Care
Parenting Tweens and Teens
7 Core Issues in Adoption and Foster Care
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