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A nonprofit audio hub featuring podcasts on topics like foster care, adoption, youth justice, kinship and more that you won’t find anywhere else.
Latest Episodes
Mothering Out Loud: Stacey Gatlin on Advocacy, Identity, and the Yes We Adopt Village
Born In June, Raised In April: What Adoption Can Teach the World
In this Mother’s Day episode, April Dinwoodie sits down with Stacey Gatlin—founder of Yes We Adopt—to explore Black adoption, parenting after loss, and building community that centers authenticity and healing. Stacey shares her path through infertility, post-adoption depression, and the creation of Yes We Adopt—a platform that uplifts Black adoptive families, adopted persons, and birth parents.
100 Years of Pierce, Part 1: The Left Panel, with Martin Guggenheim, Angela Burton, and Josh Gupta-Kagan
The EPPiC Broadcast
The Supreme Court released its landmark parental rights decision in Pierce v. Society of Sisters on June 1, 1925—exactly 100 years ago next month. To celebrate this milestone, we’ve gathered two special panels on the EPPiC Broadcast, comprised of parental rights champions from either side of the political aisle to protect our children.
From the Archive
A History of Parental Rights, with Stephen Krason
The EPPiC Broadcast
This week, we talk with Stephen Krason, Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Parental Rights Foundation board member. Stephen tells us about the historical background of parental rights, and why we have the parental rights laws that we have today. He also explains the legal underpinnings of […]
Education Is Around Us Every Day
Resilient Voices & Beyond
“Education is around us every day, providing us with opportunity…Be wise enough to see it, take action, and live out your wildest dream.” In this episode, I had the great pleasure of talking with Shanell Lavallie about her story and journey to being an educator and more…
SafeCamp Shows
Young and Autonomous
Welcome to Young and Autonomous, a limited series podcast by young parents with lived experience in foster care. Through our podcast, we engage in meaningful conversations with peers, sex educators, and researchers about sexual and reproductive health information, rights, services, and resources. We hope to share resources, spark conversations, and empower young people (ages 13-26) […]- Foster Care
- Parenting
Community In-Site
Thriving Families, Safer Children
Community In-site is a podcast about the growing movement for family well-being. Hosts Tecoria Jones and Elliot Hinkle bring their lived expertise with the child welfare system as well as their professional insights to each episode.- Child Welfare
- Family
InnerViews: A Podcast from Youth Voices Rising
SafeCamp Audio
InnerViews is not just a podcast; it’s an intimate exploration led by Ivory Bennett, a seasoned professional with 17 years of lived foster care experience. Each episode is a deep dive into topics surrounding trauma, mental and emotional health, well-being, and the unique challenges faced by Black women in the realm of healing.- Child Welfare
Self-Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life
The Reproductive Health Equity Project at the National Center for Youth Law
Welcome to Self-Taught: Former Foster Youth on Sex, Health, and Life, a podcast from foster youth for foster youth. In foster care systems, there aren’t always people to answer your big questions or open up to concerning sensitive topics. That’s why we’re bringing these conversations to you! Hosts and guests discuss puberty, relationships, sexual health, […]- Foster Care
- Healthcare
- Transition-age Youth
The Proximity Process
Fourteenth Street Studios
This is a show about how child welfare transformation actually starts with personal transformation. Follow Matt Anderson, a former child welfare executive with 20 years of experience, as he goes deeper into his own process of becoming who he needs to be. Matt has conversations with creative disruptors who help us see how systems can harm and oppress people. Each episode is an invitation to go deeper into your own process of being in service of people rather than systems.- Child Welfare
Born In June, Raised In April: What Adoption Can Teach the World
April Dinwoodie
Nationally recognized thought leader, April Dinwoodie, hosts a personal journey while exploring her adoption experience.- Adoption
How Is That Legal?: Breaking Down Systemic Racism One Law at a Time
Community Legal Services of Philadelphia
Kee Tobar and expert guests break down examples of systemic racism in the law and policy. By the end of each episode, you’ll understand the forces behind everyday injustices that make us ask, “How in the world is that legal?”- Law & Policy
- Racial Justice
Resilient Voices & Beyond
MDDTSpeaks
Through our podcast, Resilient Voices and Beyond, we strive to educate our listeners on reforms, advocacy, policies, prevention, foster care, adoption, kinship, CCIs, JJ, and the child welfare system, while challenging and breaking away from the stigmas and labels surrounding these topics.- Child Welfare
- Foster Care
- Law & Policy
- Transition-age Youth
The EPPiC Broadcast
Parental Rights Foundation
Welcome to the EPPiC Broadcast: Empowering Parents and Protecting Children. Featuring personal stories, breaking news, and insightful commentary, we’ll encourage and inform you on the issue of family and parental rights as you guide and protect that child who is your world.- Parental Rights
Audio Nuggets
Mining for Gold
Audio Nuggets is the Mining For Gold cypher, where we are expressive, independent, and a bit impatient as we struggle for even a taste of justice. It is a place where paradox is visible. Where often two things can be and are true at once. The edges of society exist as protection for some, simultaneously evoking expression.- Child Welfare
- Law & Policy
- Racial Justice
Gray Area
Voices of Monterey Bay
We make documentaries for your ears. We tell the stories of people who are trying to get beyond labels of right and wrong or good and evil to get to something even bigger: redemption. Gray Area deals with some pretty heavy stuff, but it also lightens up when you least expect it. As our co-producer Mara Reynolds says, it’ll make you cry — but in a good way.- Justice
Unbelievably Resilient
Institute for Family & Unbelieveably Resilient
On the Unbelievably Resilient podcast, alumni of foster care offer a safe space to commune, laugh, and share stories of resilience.- Child Welfare
- Foster Care
The Children’s Law Podcast
True North Child Advocates
Welcome to the Children’s Law Podcast brought to you by True North Child Advocates. Our goal is to empower children’s lawyers to help abused and neglected children get home faster.- Child Welfare
- Foster Care
- Law & Policy
The Imprint Weekly
The Imprint
The Imprint Weekly Podcast offers listeners a regular review of news and trends in America’s child welfare and juvenile justice systems, along with other critical services for youth and families.- Child Welfare
- Law & Policy
