fosterfamilies

Hope Forti, founder of Families Together, joins The 1 Girl Revolution Podcast this week to share her inspiring story and to talk about her incredible work with Families Together. Families Together (formerly Foster Together) connects families who feel isolated with volunteer “Neighbors” who work to support them and help them not feel so alone. Neighbors deliver meals, groceries, or care packages to one specific family for six months and build a friendship through encouraging notes and phone calls. This community support helps stabilize families and children, giving them the support they need to be successful together. Families Together was acquired by the Tennyson Center in 2020, which has helped amplify their work and opened up new opportunities for the organization and community. With more support, families succeed at integrating children back into stable homes – often a foster or kinship home – adding a Neighbor’s protective layer of community support to the healing process. In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Hope’s inspiring life story; 
• The story of how Hope and her husband got into foster care and how Foster Together/Families Together began;
• The tragic story of how Hope lost her husband, but continued on with the organization they founded to continue his legacy; 
• How Foster Together became Families Together and you’ll hear all about their incredible work;
• And so much more.

For more information, check out: www.1GirlRevolution.com/HopeForti

Greg Clutter is the director of Foster Care Initiatives at Chestnut Mountain Ranch, a Christ-centered home and school. They reach the hearts of young men and restore broken families through a structured loving community. Their vision is to restore hope to children and families. He shares the history of the community and how it came to be located in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Greg also discusses the role of religious communities in foster care and family welfare work, emphasizing the importance of having a strong "why" and a sense of purpose.

 

Chestnut Mountain Ranch https://cmrwv.org/

Chestnut Mountain Village https://cmvwv.org/

Read more about the foster care crisis in West Virginia: https://cmvwv.org/the-west-virginia-foster-care-crisis/

 

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Produced & Edited by Tony Reed @treed1134

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Becky Goodson, Nurse Practitioner extraordinaire shares with us the 3 things that she tells almost every single one of her patients to be healthy and to operate at their best. Listen in to see how you are faring with these 3 simple things you can be doing every single day!

Chapters:

0:00 - Intro 

0:56 - It's 'Gee-Hey!!'

1:14 - Health and Wellness

2:39 - Three Health Recommendations – Vitamin D, 

8:57 - Gut Health

13:54 - Omega 3s

18:49 - Talking About Weight

25:24 - Ways To Improve Your Health

29:58 - Good Word Of The Day!!! 

Links:

Activated Health and Wellness is the Practice, owned by the amazing Dr. Rodarte, where you can find Becky!

100 Days challenge was by Michelle Poler on Fearing Less & Doing More

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We didn't find any fish with the skin on recipes in time for publication this week. Apologies!

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Get out the Kleenex and a warm jacket and gloves. This week is a heartbreaking tale of troubled foster kid who finds comfort among a herd of cows in Maine. Readers from Carter G. Woodson Charter School in Chicago discuss Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt. U.S. Senator Angus King is celebrity reader. Kitty Felde is host.