Let It Be Us: A Foster Care & Adoption Podcast
Let It Be Us: A Foster Care and Adoption Podcast was launched in 2022 by the Illinois nonprofit organization Let It Be Us. Foster Care professionals and parents speak on issues important to the journey of foster care and adoption. If you live in the State of Illinois and want to become a foster parent or learn about waiting children, go to www.letitbeus.org
Podcasting since 2022 • 21 episodes
Let It Be Us: A Foster Care & Adoption Podcast
Latest Episodes
Conversation About Foster Care & Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) with Susan McConnell, DSW(c), MBA and Carina H. Santa Maria, MSW, LCSW
Commercially Sexually Exploited Children (CSEC) includes children and young people in foster care that are in extreme risk. While poorly defined legally, the impact upon this population is immense. Two Child Welfare Agency Executive Direc...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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37:46
What Do I Do When a Child Arrives?
The team comes together to give tips and advice for how to navigate the first time a child is placed in your home - or any time they come! Learn from Let It Be Us Founder and Executive Director Susan McConnell, MBA, Let It Be Us Directors...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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25:41
What Do I Need if I Adopt?: Practical Tips to Be Ready
Parenting is a long road no matter how you do it. This mini-episode explores tips and advice on how to support yourself as a foster parent, adoptive parent, and ways to ensure you have what you need to care for children throughout their lives. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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10:40
How Does a Child in Foster Care End Up Adopted?
The path of foster care that leads to adoption is often long and complicated, with legal jargon like “TPR” (termination of parental rights), but Let It Be Us Director Karron Shaw, MJ, and Foster Parent Licensing Coach Cathy Newbury - who has al...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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27:17
How Can I Connect with the Biological Family? Practical Tips for Developing Relationships
Feeling open to having a relationship with the biological family is the first step, in this mini-episode, Alex Montgomery, JD, Deputy Director at Let It Be Us and mother through adoption, and Rachel Hoyt, seasoned foster parent, talk about the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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11:14