The Help One Child Podcast

Help One Child

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Help One Child is excited to launch our NEW monthly podcast interviews. Since 1993, Help One Child has brought expert trainers, therapists, individuals, churches, and communities together to support and strengthen our foster, adoptive, and kinship family systems to help children impacted by trauma experiences. We will continue this great work by releasing our NEW podcast interviews monthly so you can listen on your own schedule!

FEB 4

Parenting Strategies to Handle Power Struggles and Conflict that Build (Rather than Inhibit) Attachment

Episode Description: Listen to Help One Child's JUST RELEASED Bite-Size Encouragement Podcast episode to gain new parenting tools for strengthening attachment while addressing power struggles and conflict with kids who joined your family through foster care, adoption or a kinship/relative placement. Tom Dozier is a local East Bay expert who was an engineer in his first career and now is a behaviorist, parent coach, and foster parent training curriculum developer to give back! Show Notes: Visit 3LParenting.com and select Classes By Age to explore a series of 15 free, short video lessons on general parenting to deal with behavior problems, lead to positive connections, warm fuzzies and stronger attachments. Reach out via email to request the audio files, as only the videos are available on this website. Contact via Email: tom@3lparenting.com Expert Biography: Our trainer, Tom Dozier, MS, BCBA, BAMC:BCCBT, is the owner and parenting coach of Guaranteed Parent Training in Livermore (after 30 years in engineering). Tom is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst Scientist, and is a certified parenting instructor for, “Parenting Tools for Positive Behavior Change” used in Florida to train Foster Parents. Tom provides families the help they need to succeed. Tom is also the Author of Understanding and Overcoming Misophonia, 2nd Ed., plus thePresident of The Misophonia Institute and he works in Livermore, California. Podcast Description: Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child’s blog and podcast releases.

44 min
09/30/2025

Reaching an Insecurely Attached Child/Adolescent Displaying Big, Rejecting & Violent Behaviors

Episode Description: Listen to Help One Child's just released Bite Sized Encouragement Podcast with Bryan Post, an incredible clinician, behaviorist and adult adoptee to learn more about how to reach our children and adolescents with insecure attachment despite their big, rejecting and even violent behaviors! Expert Guest Biography: Bryan Post is an internationally recognized child behavior expert specializing in adoption and trauma. If you’re an adoptive parent in Northern California struggling with your child’s behaviors, you’re not alone. He founded Leaf Wraparound (LeafWraparound.com) offers compassionate, expert support to help families heal and thrive. Serving families across Northern California, Leaf provides in-home and community-based services designed to reduce stress and restore connection. Don’t wait until the crisis escalates—reach out today and discover a path toward peace and healing. In addition, he co-founded The Post Institute. He's created https://bondify.ai/ the first adoptive-parenting AI generated coaching tool in your pocket. Help One Child appreciates his collaboration and contributions with book donations, blog articles, video usage permission for connection group curriculum, leading our Reset Day 2024 in Santa Rosa and now his podcast guest appearance. Podcast Description: Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child’s blog and podcast releases.

51 min
08/30/2025

Hope in Faith, Healing, Belonging & Being YOU

Episode Description: Listen to Help One Child's NEW Bite Sized Encouragement Podcast to hear Kristin Orphan's (Co-Founder of Finally Home) message of hope in faith, healing, belonging and being YOU! Expert Guest Biography: Kristin Orphan holds a Master’s of Science in Mental Health and Wellness with an emphasis in Family Dynamics and is a Certified Family Life Educator. She is also an Adjunct University Professor in Psychology. Kristin is also the managing partner of Family Wellness Associates, and a Family Wellness Master Trainer, where she is also a contributing author to their Survival Skills for Healthy Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families curriculum. She is a worship leader and keynote speaker for special events and retreats nationwide. As a writer, Kristin has co-authored The Strongest Link, a research based marriage and family program. She also wrote Encouragement from the Heart, devotions for foster, adoptive, and kinship parents. In her down time, Kristin enjoys writing as well as performing as a vocal artist. Kristin Orphan is the Co-Founder of Finally Home, which is a non-profit whose mission since 2008 is to equip foster, adoptive, and kinship families to build healthy homes where children and youth can heal. Since inception, more than 1,500 families have benefited from our programs and products, which are designed to give caregivers the tools they need to help the whole family thrive. Whether through an encouraging children’s story book, a therapeutic toolkit, or an empowering training, Finally Home’s trauma-informed, research-based curriculum, reinforce time-tested skills and characteristics found in healthy families. Podcast Description: Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.

22 min
05/27/2025

Important Tips to Help your foster or Adoptive Child Blossom

Episode Description: Listen in as Simon Benn, an adult adoptee, of Thriving Adoptees Podcast, and THRIVE trainer shares the most important tips for foster and adoptive parents to help your children blossom. He has a wealth of insight gathered in nearly 500 interviews of adult adoptees and those in the adoption constellation.Show Notes:Thriving Adoptees Podcast Expert Biography of Simon Benn: I was adopted at 5 weeks old and told so early I don’t ever remember not knowing. My childhood was good and adoption wasn’t an issue. At 40 I found out that my childhood teddy bear was gift from my birth mother. A volcano of anger erupted within me. Then a feeling of being unloved. Adoption had left me hot and business success had left me cold. This kickstarted a learning process and, eventually, sharing what I’ve learned to help adoptees thrive. Simon Benn is based in the United Kingdom, but known internationally and created the Thriving Adoptees Podcast and hosts webinars and a blog in support of helping other adoptees thrive. Podcast Description: Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.

33 min
05/01/2025

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder-FASD-Wise Parenting Part 2

Listen to expert guest, Dr. Kathryn Page in this just released podcast on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and FASD-WISE Parenting for practical strategies to support your child with FASD, from hard places. Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. In every episode, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips. Bio of Guest: Kathryn Page earned a PhD from the Center for Psychological Studies in Berkeley and an internship in addiction recovery at Stanford, a few highlights of Kathryn Page’s career include: Disabilities Specialist for the Santa Clara County Juvenile Drug Treatment Court; bilingual School Psychologist in San Lorenzo; 504 Coordinator in the Santa Clara Juvenile Hall; and teacher of social workers with UC Davis Extension. Dr. Page has been working on FASD for 30 years. She founded and directed the diagnostic clinic in Santa Clara County, CA, and is the co-chair of that county’s 5-year plan. She provides the mandatory FASD training for Los Angeles County’s mental health providers, and advocates for legislation at the state and federal levels. Kathryn consults, writes, teaches, and lives with this condition in her son as well as herself.

41 min
04/01/2025

Sensory & Attachment Issues with Food

Listen in for an in depth discussion on sensory and attachment issues with food in service of our families and children with Tiffany North, RN Expert Biography: As an RN, Certified Intuitive Eating Professional, and creator of the Food Attachment Model ™, Tiffany North helps people with disordered eating finally find freedom, balance, and satisfaction. Her coaching is focused on secure attachment, Intuitive Eating, body respect, and Health at Every Size principles. Expert Guest Biography: As an RN, Certified Intuitive Eating Professional, and creator of the Food Attachment Model ™, Tiffany North helps people with disordered eating finally find freedom, balance, and satisfaction. Tiffany's passion is challenging weight stigma, a harmful system of oppression. Her coaching is focused on secure attachment, Intuitive Eating, body respect, and Health at Every Size principles. She has been sober since 1998 and feels that recovery informed all areas of her work and life. When she isn’t coaching or speaking, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, being in nature and experiencing fun, adventure, and play in life. Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.y find freedom, balance, and satisfaction. Her coaching is focused on secure attachment, Intuitive Eating, body respect, and Health at Every Size principles.

34 min
03/03/2025

Compassion Fatigue for Parents of High Needs Children

Laurabeth DeHority, PsyD, therapist and adoptive mom shares what compassion fatigue is for parents of high needs children. Listen in for practical strategies to overcome compassion fatigue & strengthen yourself & your family! Expert Guest Biography: LauraBeth DeHority, PsyD, LMFT is an adoptive parent and therapist in private practice who specializes in working with caregivers and families who are touched by all forms of special needs. She works with individuals, couples, siblings, groups and multi-generational families to provide support in areas of family roles, communication, stress reduction, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction and trauma release. She is a valued Help One Child trainer, blog article author and podcast guest, as well! Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.

28 min
01/31/2025

Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Sisterhood, an Inspiring conversation with the author, an adult adoptee!

What is the psychological impact of being adopted? Listen to Julie Ryan McGue's journey navigating life in an adoptive family to gain wisdom and inspiration for your own family. Julie Ryan McGue's Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood (releases Feb 6, 2025, She Writes Press) is a compelling prequel to her award-winning debut, Twice a Daughter. Set in the Chicago suburbs, Twice the Family is a coming-of-age memoir following Julie and her twin sister through challenges of growing up in an ever-expanding adoptive family, uncovering family secrets that ultimately test their unbreakable bond. Guest Expert Biography: Julie Ryan McGue is an American writer, a domestic adoptee, and an identical twin. Her first memoir, “Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging,” released in May 2021, winning multiple awards. Her work has appeared in the Story Circle Network Journal, Brevity Nonfiction Blog, Imprint News, Adoption.com, Lifetime Adoption Adoptive Families Blog, Adoption & Beyond, and Severance Magazine. Her personal essays have appeared in several anthologies, including “Real Women Write: Seeing Through Her Eyes” (Story Circle Network) and “Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis” (She Writes Press). Her collection of essays, “Belonging Matters: Conversations on Adoption, Family, and Kinship” (Muse Literary), released in November 2023. She writes a biweekly blog and monthly column (The Beacher Newspapers), in which she explores the topics of finding out who you are, where you belong, and making sense of it. Julie splits her time between Northwest Indiana and Sarasota, Florida. “Twice the Family: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Sisterhood” is her third book. Visit her website for more info: juliemcgueauthor.com Trauma and attachment experts share the latest information specifically related to adoptive, foster and kinship parenting. Every month, you will find helpful insights and practical parenting tips in Help One Child's blog and podcast releases.

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Help One Child is excited to launch our NEW monthly podcast interviews. Since 1993, Help One Child has brought expert trainers, therapists, individuals, churches, and communities together to support and strengthen our foster, adoptive, and kinship family systems to help children impacted by trauma experiences. We will continue this great work by releasing our NEW podcast interviews monthly so you can listen on your own schedule!

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Help One Child
Years Active

2020 - 2026
Episodes

50
Rating

Clean
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