Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Sharing stories and experiences of Australians who have been through Adoption and Foster Care. The stories are sometimes complex and tackle difficult issues which span over 50 plus years. From children that have been in an under resourced system to Australia's traumatic history of forced adoptions and the stolen generations. But through this darkness comes light - there are also stories of hope, courage resilience and love. My Unknown Truth is hosted by Nadia Levett, born and raised in Australia and is a child of Adoption. It is my wish that by sharing a range of experiences will lead to increased awareness and understanding around Foster Care and Adoption in Australia, facilitate informed discussion and encourage more people to share their story, open listeners hearts, minds and maybe homes to children in need.
Australian Adoption Podcast - My Unknown Truth
Episode 17 - Karin's story
In this episode I speak with Karin. Karin is a mother to two boys adopted from the Philippines and President of the Adoptive, Kinship and Fostering Families Association of the ACT known as AKKFFA. Karin believes it is important to find your community of people when it comes to adoption, fostering and kinship care.
Karin was previously a Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly, and uses her experience to work towards a better system for all families involved.
She is passionately learning the impacts of early life trauma and the effects on neurobiology and she shares that information with families through AKFFA and the adoption, fostering, kinship space.
Karin recently held a Trust Based Relational Intervention workshop known as TBRI at AKFFA and talks through various tools used to bring healing and well-being to children who come from hard places. TBRI is an attachment based trauma informed intervention designed by the Karyn Purvis Institute of child development focussing on 3 principles - Connecting, Correcting and Empowering.
I loved chatting with Karin on this one so let’s get into it!
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