
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 7 | Embracing my unconventional family
This episode reveals the beauty and hiccups of having an unconventional family. I reflect upon my own unconventional family living with my Puerto Rican Jewish mom and Chinese siblings as a high school teenager. I conclude with tips and words of encouragement on how we can better understand our unconventional family from a strengths based approach.