Inspiration and education to help you move forward as a foster parent in Clark County, Nevada.
About the Podcasts
Who can be a foster caregiver? What is fostering like? How will it affect my life? When it comes to foster caregiving in Clark County, the most important thing is having a safe, loving home for your foster child. Everything else is as unique as the children themselves. Those curious about foster caregiving, what it takes, and how it transforms not only the lives of children in need, but the lives of foster caregivers, need to listen to these dynamic, heartwarming podcasts from Clark County Family Services. Available wherever you get your podcasts, Foster a Leader and Courageous Caregiver are two invaluable resources for foster caregivers that explore the vital role they play in supporting our community’s most vulnerable youth.
Foster a Leader
Opening your heart and your home to the babies, children, and teenagers in foster care is an amazing, challenging, yet rewarding experience. The Foster a Leader podcast hopes to inspire and educate anyone considering becoming a foster parent. Want to be a foster caregiver but don’t know where to start? The Foster a Leader podcast highlights stories and experiences from the team at Clark County Family Services that inspire and educate anyone thinking about becoming a foster caregiver.
Courageous Caregiver
Meet a foster caregiver! The Courageous Caregiver podcast introduces listeners to foster, relative, and fictive kin caregivers who are making a difference in the lives of babies, children and teens involved in foster care. Heartwarming and inspirational, Courageous Caregiver is proof great things are happening in Clark County.
Becoming a foster caregiver is one of life’s most rewarding decisions, but it’s not without its challenges. Let Clark County Family Services demystify the process through real-life profiles and in-depth explainers into the lives of foster caregivers and the children in their care. Listen to Foster a Leader and Courageous Caregiver wherever you get your podcasts.
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EPISODE 6:
Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)
Children enter foster care due to trauma, abuse, or neglect—never their fault. Caregivers, caseworkers, and CASA volunteers work together to support them. Today, we welcome the Eighth Judicial District Court CASA Program to learn about the vital role CASA volunteers play in the lives of foster children.
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Foster Parent Training with Raise the Future
Becoming a foster parent involves training, background checks, and home inspections. Today, we welcome Raise the Future, the agency that trains new foster parents at Family Services. They'll share how these classes prepare families for the important responsibility of fostering.
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Foster Kinship
When children enter foster care, the first placement considered by our team at Clark County Family Services is to find people that the children already know and have a relationship with, like their relatives or close family friends. These caregivers step in to help a child temporarily while they are in foster care. This type of foster care is called relative or kinship care.
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National Foster Care Month
National Foster Care Month (NFCM) is an initiative of the Children’s Bureau that seeks to increase national awareness of foster care issues. It’s important for people across our country to recognize and understand the vital roles that people from all parts of child welfare play in supporting children, youth, and families.
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Keeping Children Safe
Clark County Family Services talked with Mayra, Program Manager for Prevent Child Abuse Nevada during April’s Child Abuse Prevention Month. From explaining the risk factors that lead to negative outcomes, to focusing on protective factors that strengthen families, Mayra explains that we can all play a role in keeping children safe.
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Foster Care Fundamentals
Inspiration and education to help you move forward as a foster parent. The Foster a Leader podcast shares stories from Clark County Family Services to inspire future foster parents. Special guest Jennifer Erbes discusses the urgent need for more foster parents, with about 3,000 children in care daily, and explains how to start the process.
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Meet Laurie
Laurie is making the world a better place by giving children a safe home and loving care as a foster parent. It gets emotional as Laurie explains the rewards and challenges of caregiving. She shares her message to anyone thinking about becoming a foster parent. “Someone needs you.”
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Meet Janay
Janay and her family have cared for 19 babies and children in foster care. Finding strength and support from the community, Janay is a shining example of how foster parents support biological families through reunification. She says that fostering has helped her immediate family develop empathy and learn forgiveness.
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Fostering in rural Nevada
Our Foster a Leader podcast is designed to educate and inspire anyone who is thinking about becoming a foster parent. While we primarily focus on Clark County, today we will learn about the needs of children in foster care throughout the rural areas of Nevada. We welcome Shelby Riley, a foster care recruiter for Nevada Division of Child and Family Services.
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Mental health and foster care
Children in foster care often face trauma, abuse, and mental health challenges like anxiety, depression, and PTSD. We welcome Meambi Newbern-Johnson, Family Services Manager, and Chris Jones, Youth and Adult Intervention Specialist, who will discuss supporting foster children’s mental health at Child Haven and how caregivers can help at home.
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Meet Ali
Ali is a new foster parent in Clark County and is dedicated to strengthening families. She shares what her first few months of fostering has been like, how she supports the children in her care, and the relationships she builds with the biological parents in supporting reunification.
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Meet Trevon
Trevon shares his experience fostering children under the age of 5 years old. He explains that his greatest strength as a foster parent is giving love to children that have suffered trauma. Trevon and his wife cared for a young child who was blind and learned that the key to provide a loving home and just do your best.
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Meet Bruce
The Courageous Caregiver video podcast introduces you to a foster, relative, and fictive kin caregivers who truly make a difference in the lives of children involved in foster care in Clark County, Nevada. Bruce Walker, foster parent of 12 years, shares his insight on fostering teens, the fears he had getting started, and advice for anyone thinking of becoming a foster parent.
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EPISODE 10:
Say YES to kids in foster care
Opening your heart and your home to the babies, children, and teenagers in foster care is an amazing, challenging, yet rewarding experience. Lynne and Beth share how the foster care team at Clark County Family Services is out in the community to share the need for more foster caregivers.
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Parenting Project
Parents are the child’s first teachers and greatest support system. Sarah and Glenda from Clark County’s Parenting Project encourage you to sign up for the free parent education services available to every parent and caregiver in Clark County. Strengthen your relationship with your children through Parenting Project.
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EPISODE 12:
Fostering Teens & Independent Living
There is a great need for caregivers for teens in foster care in Clark County, Nevada. Vanessa and Charles from Independent Living, a special unit at Clark County Family Services, share how they support teenagers in foster care and give advice for anyone thinking about becoming a foster parent.
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EPISODE 11:
Support and stabilization for relative foster caregivers
Foster Kinship and Clark County Family Services highlight the supports for family and friends who are caring for children with an open foster care case in Clark County, Nevada. Sharing details of the kinship stabilization benefit, they encourage families and friends who are caring for children in foster care to complete their foster parent licensing.
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EPISODE 6:
Meet Gina
Gina shares insight on becoming a foster caregiver to her friend’s child in Clark County, Nevada. Through support from Foster Kinship and Clark County Family Services, Gina accessed resources and support through the kinship stabilization program.
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EPISODE 5:
Meet Latreece
Latreece opens her heart and her home to children ages 0-5 years old who are in foster care. Latreece also serves as a Foster Parent Champion, helping hundreds of foster caregivers in Clark County, Nevada access resources and support.
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EPISODE 9:
Parenting Project
Parents are the child’s first teachers and greatest support system. Sarah and Glenda from Clark County’s Parenting Project encourage you to sign up for the free parent education services available to every parent and caregiver in Clark County. Strengthen your relationship with your children through Parenting Project.
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EPISODE 10:
Say YES to kids in foster care
Opening your heart and your home to the babies, children, and teenagers in foster care is an amazing, challenging, yet rewarding experience. Lynne and Beth share how the foster care team at Clark County Family Services is out in the community to share the need for more foster caregivers.
Watch Now
EPISODE 11:
Support and stabilization for relative foster caregivers
Foster Kinship and Clark County Family Services highlight the supports for family and friends who are caring for children with an open foster care case in Clark County, Nevada. Sharing details of the kinship stabilization benefit, they encourage families and friends who are caring for children in foster care to complete their foster parent licensing.
Watch Now
EPISODE 12:
Fostering Teens & Independent Living
There is a great need for caregivers for teens in foster care in Clark County, Nevada. Vanessa and Charles from Independent Living, a special unit at Clark County Family Services, share how they support teenagers in foster care and give advice for anyone thinking about becoming a foster parent.
Watch Now
EPISODE 5:
Meet Latreece
Latreece opens her heart and her home to children ages 0-5 years old who are in foster care. Latreece also serves as a Foster Parent Champion, helping hundreds of foster caregivers in Clark County, Nevada access resources and support.
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EPISODE 6:
Meet Gina
Gina shares insight on becoming a foster caregiver to her friend’s child in Clark County, Nevada. Through support from Foster Kinship and Clark County Family Services, Gina accessed resources and support through the kinship stabilization program.
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