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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Back to School with Foster & Adopted Kids
Endometriosis and Adenomyosis
How to Raise an Anti-Racist Child
Kinship Caregiving: Managing Relationships with the Child's Parents
Engaging Churches in the Foster Care Crisis
Legal and Medical Risk in Infant Adoption
Racial Disparities in Reproductive Medicine
Effectiveness of Online Parent Support Groups
Protecting our Kids from Sexual Exploitation
Raising a Blended Family
Disclosing Donor Conception to Our Kids
A Panel of Birth Moms Talk About Adoption
First Six Months with a Baby with Opioid Exposure
Parenting Toolkit for Harder to Parent Kids
Genetics, Genetic Testing, and Miscarriage
Adoption Microaggressions Parents Need to Know About
Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids
Parenting Kids with Prenatal Exposure (Part 2): Transistioning into Adolescence and Adulthood
Parenting Kids with Prenatal Exposure (Part 1): Practical Tips
Understanding and Preventing Miscarriage and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
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