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Current Events
by Fostering the Future Podcast
A podcast about fostercare and child welfare
Episodes
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Season 4 Episode 22 : CAP Crisis – Accused to Attorney – Part 2
When Hayley and Gary are accused of child abuse – when they bring their 3 month to the hospital for help with an unexplained injury – their life takes a tragic turn. The result is Gary becoming a prisoner and Hayley fighting for her son and her husband and deciding to go to law school...
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Season 4 Episode 21 : CAP Crisis – Accused to Attorney – Part 1
When Hayley and Gary are accused of child abuse – when they bring their 3 month to the hospital for help with an unexplained injury – their life takes a tragic turn. The result is Gary becoming a prisoner and Hayley fighting for her son and her husband and deciding to go to law school...
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Season 4 Episode 20 : CAP Crisis – Megan’s Story
Megan and her husband, from Washington, experienced medical kidnapping when their son’s RSV turned into a nightmare. One trip to the ER when he was struggling with a cold and suddenly he was being intubated, which went awry, and then coded in a helicopter en route to a children’s hospital and had...
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Season 4 Episode 18 : Crisis in Georgia – The Timms Story – Keep Knocking
Carrie and Brady Timms are the parents of 2 year old Jameson. He started experiencing some concerning symptoms in his first months of life that had his parents bringing him to the doctor and the hospital trying to figure out. He would have discolorations appear on his body and then disappear....
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Season 4 Episode 17 : Crisis in Georgia – The Sullivan Story – Part 3
Diana and Corey Sullivan met in 6th grade and started dating in 8th grade. Married by 21, they immediately started trying to have children. When it didn’t work out they turned to fertility doctors and ended up conceiving their first child the first time they tried IVF. In hopes of providing their...
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Season 4 Episode 16 : Crisis in Georgia – The Sullivan Story – Part 2
Diana and Corey Sullivan met in 6th grade and started dating in 8th grade. Married by 21, they immediately started trying to have children. When it didn’t work out they turned to fertility doctors and ended up conceiving their first child the first time they tried IVF. In hopes of providing their...
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Season 4 Episode 15 : Crisis in Georgia – The Sullivan Story – Part 1
Diana and Corey Sullivan met in 6th grade and started dating in 8th grade. Married by 21, they immediately started trying to have children. When it didn’t work out they turned to fertility doctors and ended up conceiving their first child the first time they tried IVF. In hopes of providing their...
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Season 4 Episode 14 : Hernandez Family Update – VICTORY
We have an update for you regarding the Hernandez Family. An unexpected turn of events at a court hearing which was just supposed to age a review this week – resulted in the girls moving to family members (pending the resolution of the criminal charges) and Georgia DFCS closing the case against…
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Season 4 Episode 6 : Crisis in Georgia – The Whiting-Clarke Story
Jack & Christy chat with Shelby, A mom in Georgia who has similar story of medical abuse of power. Shelby is one of dozens of moms in Georgia who had her child removed after a child abuse pediatrician declared a diagnosis of abuse, despite the child having diseases explaining the injuries. The...
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Season 4 Episode 5 : Crisis in Georgia – The Hernandez Story Continued
Jack & Christy continue their chat with Jennifer, A fostermom in Georgia who is helping the Hernandez family and many other families going through similar stories of medical abuse of power. Matt & Taki Hernandez noticed a swollen leg on their infant and brought her to the dr who referred her to...
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The Hernandez Story – Consequences & Lawsuits
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. We chat about the consequences of child abuse pediatricians doubling down even in the face of diagnoses explaining injuries – and the consequence of that is the destruction of a family – versus the slap on the wrist they may...
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The Hernandez Story – Coparenting & Breastfeeding
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how the agency who trained her to coparent had great concerns when she tried to coparent, and also how the agency would take Taki’s breastmilk and dispose of it without giving it to her child or informing her...
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The Hernandez Story – Input from A Supervising Therapist
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how a therapist supervising Matt Hernandez visits exclaimed that he is a perfect parent and she has no concerns for him. She also found it odd that noone told her any issues to watch for with Matt, despite him...
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The Hernandez Story – The Lies
A mini episode with a continued conversation about the Hernandez story. Jennifer shares how the agency would force Matt to lie about why Taki was not present at visits to the girls, and how the agency lied in court about vetting relatives and fictive kin for placement.
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Season 4 Episode 4 : Crisis in Georgia – The Hernandez Story
Jack & Christy chat with Jennifer. A fostermom in Georgia who is helping the Hernandez family and many other families going through similar stories of medical abuse of power. Matt & Taki Hernandez noticed a swollen leg on their infant and brought her to the dr who referred her to CHOA and within...
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Season 3 Episode 26 : Jennifer Anderson & Prosecuting Medical Abuse of Power – The Maya Kowalski Case
Jack & Nichole chat with Jennifer Anderson about her firm’s representation of the Kowalski family and their journey to hold Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital responsible for their actions and the consequences of those actions.
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Season 3 Episode 25 : Caring for CRPS – The Maya Kowalski Case
Jack chats with Sandy, a mom of a young man with CRPS – Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, about caring for a child with CRPS. We wanted to share this story with you so that we can all have a better understanding of what life was like for Beata Kowalski, while caring for her daughter, Maya.
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Season 3 Episode 24 : Maya Kowalski’s Story of Medical Abuse of Power
Jack & Lynn chat about the Maya Kowalski case, as documented in Take Care of Maya and the recent televised trial.
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Season 3 Episode 19 : More Sorry Than Safe in Foster Care Part 4
Cat & Jack continue their chat with Melissa Bright who experienced a devastating false child abuse charge where her children were removed from her care due to overlooked medical information and a “better safe than sorry” attitude. Many of us heard about her story on the Do No Harm Podcast, but we...
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Season 3 Episode 18 : More Sorry Than Safe in Foster Care Part 3
Cat & Jack continue their chat with Melissa Bright who experienced a devastating false child abuse charge where her children were removed from her care due to overlooked medical information and a “better safe than sorry” attitude. Many of us heard about her story on the Do No Harm Podcast, but we...
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Season 3 Episode 17 : More Sorry Than Safe in Foster Care Part 2
[TW: ORIGINAL AUDIO FROM A CHILD REMOVAL] Cat & Jack continue their chat with Melissa Bright who experienced a devastating false child abuse charge where her children were removed from her care due to overlooked medical information and a “better safe than sorry” attitude. Many of us heard about…
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Season 3 Episode 16 : More Sorry Than Safe in Foster Care Part 1
[TW: ORIGINAL AUDIO FROM A CHILD REMOVAL] Cat & Jack chat with Melissa Bright who experienced a devastating false child abuse charge where her children were removed from her care due to overlooked medical information and a “better safe than sorry” attitude. Many of us heard about her story on the...
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Season 3 Episode 15 : Understanding CBCs – Meet Tory
Jack & Sam chat with CBC VP of Placement Resources, Tory Wilson with FSS in Florida about how the CBC functions in privatized states like Florida and about the transition of Florida Circuit 6 from Eckerd to FSS.
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Season 3 Episode 14 : The Adoption & Abandonment of Natalia Grace Part 4
Jack & Cat are back to discuss more about the abuse and neglect of Natalia Grace
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Season 3 Episode 13 : The Adoption & Abandonment of Natalia Grace Part 3
Jack & Cat are back to discuss more about the abuse and neglect of Natalia Grace
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Season 3 Episode 11 : The Adoption & Abandonment of Natalia Grace Part 1
Cat & Jack discuss the curious case of Natalia Grace, We discuss how the docuseries on Netflix addresses the situation as well as how a careful examination of facts and documents paints a very particular story of both the adoption, abuse, and abandonment of an orphan from Ukraine. Please be…
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Season 3 Episode 10 : Abuse of Power in Foster Care – BOLDFAM
Cat & Jack chat with Deric from Boldfam – the viral social sensation who has recently undergone an interaction with CPS in Texas due to an abuse call from a doctor.
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Season 3 Episode 4 : Exploitation of Kids In Foster Care
Cat & Jack get down on the nitty gritty of where the line is when it comes to foster children on social media and especially when monetization comes into the scenario.
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Season 3 Episode 2 : Brittany Dawn Update in Foster Care
Jack & Cat are back for more Brittany Dawn snarking in episode 2. Join us in a short update on the trial and latest placement news for Brittany Dawn
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Season 3 Episode 1 : Brittany Dawn or Brittany Done? in Foster Care
Jack & Cat discuss the Brittany Dawn scandals and their suitability to be foster parents. From police brutality of a black man, to scamming people suffering from eating disorders, and of course the lack of true accountability – it is a worrying question.
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Season 1 Episode 31 : DCF Cancels CBC
Nichole (fostermom & gal) & Jack (fostermom) sit and chat about local events concerning the state DCF cancelling the contract of the local CBC and the sheriff’s department opening a criminal investigation into the CBC. The community is anxiously awaiting information about what will happen in the...
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