
The Voice: Foster Care, Adoption and Beyond
An educational podcast featuring urban and social work topics with a special focus on foster care, adoption, and homeless youth and intersecting social topics. Dr. Zayda Sorrell-Medina is a social work educator, a former foster-homeless youth, foster-adopt parent, and a social science researcher. This podcast combines research, story telling, poetry and other approaches to assemble a deeper understanding of the social world.
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The Voice: Foster Care, Adoption and Beyond
Episode 5 | Supporting teenagers
In this episode, I draw upon my experiences as a runaway teenager and social work educator to share tips on how parents can better support their teenager. Especially when the teenager is not your biological child, it is ever more critical to take a trauma-informed approach.