Episode 29 | Foster Care Resilience

About this episode

In this episode, Dr. Zayda Sorrell Medina shares tips to strengthen youth resilience in foster care based on her life experiences.

Send us Fan Mail Are you in foster care or a transitional foster age youth? In this episode, I share tips based on life experience to strengthen youth resilience while going through foster care and beyond. Support the show About Me Dr. Zayda Sorrell Medina is a professor, social scientist, former foster and homeless youth, foster adoptive parent, author, and advocate. Speaking zsmresearchandeducation.com Support the Show https://www.buzzsprout.com/2171073/supporthttps://cash...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Zayda Sorrell Medina

Topics covered

• foster care
• resilience
• youth support
• life experience
• transitional youth

Keywords

• foster care
• resilience
• youth
• support
• life experience
• transitional youth

More episodes of Foster Care, Adoption, and Beyond: Untold Stories

• Episode 30 | Supporting Foster Care, Adoption, Homeless Youth Inclusion in Policy and Practice · May 11, 2026 · 17 min
• Episode 28 | Seeing the Glass Half Full · March 11, 2026 · 8 min
• Episode 27 | 3 Trauma Informed Strategies for Working with the Foster Adoption Community · February 11, 2026 · 11 min
• Episode 26 | 5 Life lessons: From the Trenches to the Light · January 1, 2026 · 16 min
• Episode 25 | Como Apoyar a los Padres de Adopción y de Cuidado de Crianza · November 12, 2025 · 13 min
• Episode 24 | 5 Equity-Minding Teaching Strategies · October 11, 2025 · 23 min