Essential Foster Care Videos and Podcasts: Powerful Resources for Foster Youth and Families

Short video stories by foster youth and alumni

• Aging Out of Foster Care: Hannah’s Story – Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (YouTube). Youth alum describes abuse, multiple placements, and aging out to encourage teen adoption.​

• Foster Care Stories: Cara – Skookum Kids (YouTube). Young woman talks about entering care at age four, food insecurity, parental arrest, and how those experiences shaped her.​

• Angel’s Foster Care and Adoption Story – foster youth/adoptee narrative with a playlist of additional foster/adoption stories.​

• Voices of Youth: Supporting Adolescents in Foster Care (8-part series) – Annie E. Casey Foundation. Teens and young adults in foster care describe placements, relationships, and what helped.​

• Foster Care Video Gallery – Dane County Human Services. Multiple short videos with children, teens, and foster families sharing their experiences.​

• Training / information videos

  • Online Training for Child Foster Care – Anoka County, MN
    Online Training (anokacountymn.gov)​

  • Discipline in Foster Care: Managing Our Behaviors to Manage Theirs – Hennepin County (YouTube)
    youtube.com​

  • Foster Care & Adoption Training – CHLSS (webinars and videos)
    Foster care adoption training (chlss.org)​

  • Right-Time Training for Families – NTDC
    Right time training for families (ntdctraining.org)​

  • Separated Child Foundation – resources for carers of separated children
    (You have the description; the main site’s video resources are here:)
    Resources (separatedchild.org.uk)

  Awareness / campaign videos

  • All Our Kids launches Foster Care Awareness Campaign – news/video segment
    youtube.com​

  • Dorset Council foster care campaign video (Santa) – covered by BBC
    News article with video: C3e09gj5zzgo (bbc.com)​

  • AdoptUSKids video archive (PSAs and stories)
    Video tag on their blog: blog.adoptuskids.org​

  Foster-care podcasts centered on youth experience

  • Bonus Babies – CASA-hosted podcast
    Main site: bonusbabies.buzzsprout.com​
    Directory page: Bonus babies (podchaser.com)​

  • Fostering Change – Rob Scheer (Comfort Cases)
    Main site: Fostering change podcast (comfortcases.org) (best to link from show home)

  • CASA Connection (CASA-focused podcast)
    Representative listing (example on Podcast Republic/Apple etc.):
    podcastrepublic.net (verify this matches the CASA program you want)

  • Fostering Conversations with Utah Foster Care
    Show page: Fostering conversations podcast (utahfostercare.org)

  • Foster Care 101 Podcast Series – Foster Adopt Minnesota
    Series page: Foster care 101 podcast series (fosteradoptmn.org)

  Broader foster-care and caregiver podcasts

  • Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
    Apple/landing page:
    podcasts.apple.com​

  • The Forgotten Podcast
    Main site: theforgotteninitiative.org

  • Fostering Voices Podcast
    Main site: fosteringvoices.com

  • Foster Parent Well
    Main site: fosterparentwell.com

  • The Resilient Caregiver Podcast
    Main site: resilientcaregiver.org

  • Podcasts – Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare (UMN)
    Podcasts (cascw.umn.edu)​

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Video resources for foster carers and professionals

• Separated Child Foundation – video for foster carers of separated children (refugee/asylum-seeking youth). Explains behaviors, trauma presentation, and preparation steps for carers.​

• “Stories From Foster Families” series – Virginia Department of Social Services (Facebook). Foster families describe keeping siblings together, reunification, and system impact.​

• Bethany Foster Care Series (above) – practical introduction for prospective foster parents and agencies.​

Foster-care podcasts centered on youth experience

• Bonus Babies – CASA-hosted, award-winning show with raw stories from people with lived foster-care experience and those who care for them.​

• Fostering Change – hosted by Rob Scheer (Comfort Cases). Interviews with former foster youth, foster parents, advocates, and public figures touched by foster care.​

• CASA Connection – short episodes with stories and information from the CASA perspective, often highlighting children’s experiences and volunteer roles.​

• Fostering Conversations with Utah Foster Care – real and “raw” conversations about parenting kids in care, featuring youth and caregivers.​

Foster Care 101 Podcast Series – Foster Adopt Minnesota. 13-part series for MN foster/kinship families and professionals covering need, licensing, trauma, and real-life foster experiences.