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The Forgotten Adoption Option Podcast

The Forgotten Adoption Option Podcast

By: Marcy Bursac Adoptive Mom & Founder of The Forgotten Adoption Option
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🎙 The Forgotten Adoption Option Podcast — now in its sixth season — shares real stories and insights on adopting through foster care. Each month, host Marcy Bursac, America’s Foster Care Adoption Mentor, interviews: • Adoptive parents • Adoptees • Adults who aged out of foster care • Child welfare experts 💡 Nearly 30% of children in U.S. foster care are legally free for adoption, yet many families never reach the finish line. 🔗 Learn more at FosterCareAdoption.org and subscribe wherever you listen.Marcy Bursac, Adoptive Mom & Founder of The Forgotten Adoption Option Social Sciences
Episodes
  • fears that can hold us back from adopting through foster care

    fears that can hold us back from adopting through foster care
    Apr 14 2026

    Deborah Olivia Farmer, adoptive mom and nonprofit founder, shares her own journey through foster care adoption and how she helps others overcome the fears that often hold people back.
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    33 mins
  • What is EMDR therapy?

    What is EMDR therapy?
    Mar 17 2026

    What is EMDR therapy and how does it help children process trauma? EMDR trained therapist Casey O'Donnell Jones, M.Ed., LPC, RPT explains Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing , how it works in practice, and how foster and adoptive families can identify whether EMDR may support healing after early childhood trauma.
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    27 mins
  • how to prepare to care for sibling groups

    how to prepare to care for sibling groups
    Mar 3 2026

    Keeping siblings together isn’t accidental. It’s intentional. Tiffany and Hakim talk about how they prepare for sibling groups and what it looks like to be the family that says yes when agencies are trying to keep brothers and sisters together.
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    41 mins
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