We hope these conversations will give you a greater understanding of the issues facing our city.
The Riverside Project Podcast shares conversations with people across the foster care community—including child welfare experts, foster and adoptive parents, church and nonprofit leaders, and individuals with lived experience in the child welfare system. Tune in for new episodes every month on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Podcast Episodes
Creating Spaces for Children in Foster Care with Disabilities (feat. Kayla Williams)
What kinds of foster care placements are you open to? This is a question that gets asked to all foster…
Extending Care for Vulnerable Youth (feat. Alina White, DFPS)
When people think of foster care, it’s typically assumed that it ends at age 18 when a child ages out…
Moving From Scarcity to an Abundance Mindset (feat. Jason Weber, More Than Enough)
“When it comes to kids and families in our community, we don’t have to settle for not enough.” National estimates…
Ensuring No Child Sleeps on the Floor (feat. Oli Mohammad, Houston Furniture Bank)
300,000. That is the estimated number of children in our city who sleep on the floor. That’s nearly 13% of…
Going the Extra Mile for Homeless Youth and Young Adults (feat. Quana Smith & Danielle Stephen, Coalition for the Homeless)
Neither foster care nor homelessness are isolated issues. They both intersect with numerous social issues—including each other. For example, homelessness…
Resourcing Families with Hope (feat. Lisa Johnson, Entrusted Houston)
It’s estimated that around 70% of all instances of kinship care are informal. This is significant because family members in these cases are…
Supporting Children & Families Beyond Permanency (ft. DeJuana Jernigan, Arms Wide Adoption Services)
“Their healing begins with your hope.” Our guest ended our time together on this phrase, but we wanted to start…
The Ways Fostering Affects Biological Children (feat. Daniela Coats, With Siblings)
Biological children who grow up in a family that fosters or adopts can experience some intense and complicated emotions. While…
Uncovering the Sacred Mission in Any Vocation (feat. Doug Meikle, Star of Hope)
We often use the analogy of the River to describe how each and every one of us has a unique role to…
