What Happens When You Finally Listen to Foster Kids (Pt 1)

About this episode

Brian Mavis discusses the transformative impact of listening to foster children's stories and how it has helped thousands find families.

When Brian Mavis and his wife learned there were hundreds of foster kids in Colorado that nobody was stepping up to adopt, they realized the problem wasn’t that people didn’t care — it’s that they’d never truly heard the kids’ stories. In this powerful conversation, the founder of America’s Kids Belong shares how recording video testimonies of foster children transformed his life, helped more than 2,400 kids find families, and revealed an upstream solution to some of America’s largest problems. You’ll walk away with practical ways to help foster kids in your own community — whether that means adopting, fostering, supporting foster families, mentoring a child, or simply becoming the kind of adult who refuses to look away. Support the show: https://www.normalfolks.us/#join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Guest: Brian Mavis

Topics covered

• foster care
• adoption
• children's stories
• community support
• social issues

Keywords

• foster kids
• adoption
• mentoring
• supporting families
• community involvement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: America’s Kids Belong

Places: Colorado, America

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