Not a Throwaway Joy Roberts

In the second part of this three-part series, Joy talks about how building trust with your foster/adopted child should be priority before addressing their mental health issues. The traumatized brain is tender and delicate, and remembering to listen before you speak is incredibly vital to the healing process.

This is the first part of a three-part series on mental health. In this episode, Joy talks about how you can’t just fix mental health, but how it’s a process and a journey. With patience and dedication, you can help your foster or adopted child work through the trauma and mental health challenges they are […]

Hear from a couple who has fostered many siblings and has walked through the struggle of having to make a call to split up siblings. Joy discusses with Melinda and Eric the value in keeping siblings together as well as, sometimes, the need to split up siblings. They also discuss some helpful, practical ways they […]

In this episode, Joy speaks with Carrie Davis about her and her husbands current adoption journey. What has seemed to be a never-ending whirlwind of legal processes, paperwork, lots of “no’s” and a few “yes’s”, they’ve finally been matched with a child they expect to adopt in May. God’s timing does not always align with […]

In this episode, Joy catches up with Elizabeth Shelt – the CASA worker that was appointed to Joy when she was in the system as a little girl. CASA stands for Court-Appointed Special Advocate. This is a volunteer program where you have the opportunity to be a voice for foster children. And as you’ll hear […]

In this episode, Joy talks about the challenges and struggles that foster teens deal with when it comes to education and schooling.