Foster Care, Adoption, and Beyond: Untold Stories

By: zayda sorrell-medina
  • Summary

  • An educational podcast featuring urban and social work topics with a special focus on foster care, adoption, and homeless youth and intersecting social topics. Dr. Zayda Sorrell-Medina is a social work educator, a former foster-homeless youth, foster-adopt parent, and a social science researcher. This podcast combines research, story telling, poetry and other approaches to assemble a deeper understanding of the social world.


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Episodes
  • Episode 14 | Podcast Name Change
    Feb 22 2025

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    This podcast is an official announcement regarding the podcast's name change, from "The Voice" to "Foster Care, Adoption and Beyond: Untold Stories", also revealing in more detail what this podcast is about and what you can expect.

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    About Me

    Dr. Zayda Sorrell-Medina is a professor of social work, researcher, author, educator, and advocate. Her research aims to understand how society (e.g., nonprofits, government) contributes to the inclusion and exclusion of social groups, and particularly among immigrants, religious and ethnic groups, and the foster, adoption, homeless youth community. She is also a foster-adopt parent and former foster-homeless youth and advocate of this community.

    Episode Schedule

    A new episode is released monthly on the 11th with special releases sprinkled throughout the year.

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    • Subscribe to receive notifications when I release a new episode
    • Ask me a question or propose a topic that you would like me to discuss in this podcast. Email me at zaydasorrellmedina@gmail.com
    • For speaker and consulting, visit zaydasorrellmedina.com

    Support the Show

    Donate directly to support this educational advocacy cause:

    https://www.buzzsprout.com/2171073/support

    https://cash.app/$ZaydaSorrellMedina

    Social Media

    https://www.instagram.com/zaydasorrellmedina/

    https://www.facebook.com/drzayda/





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    3 mins
  • Episode 13 | Self-Love: A Life Long Journey
    Feb 11 2025

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    How can I love myself? What is self-love? This episode provides a basic definition of self-love and strategies to embark on a life long journey of self-love.

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    About Me

    Dr. Zayda Sorrell-Medina is a professor of social work, researcher, author, educator, and advocate. Her research aims to understand how society (e.g., nonprofits, government) contributes to the inclusion and exclusion of social groups, and particularly among immigrants, religious and ethnic groups, and the foster, adoption, homeless youth community. She is also a foster-adopt parent and former foster-homeless youth and advocate of this community.

    Episode Schedule

    A new episode is released monthly on the 11th with special releases sprinkled throughout the year.

    Connect

    • Subscribe to receive notifications when I release a new episode
    • Ask me a question or propose a topic that you would like me to discuss in this podcast. Email me at zaydasorrellmedina@gmail.com
    • For speaker and consulting, visit zaydasorrellmedina.com

    Support the Show

    Donate directly to support this educational advocacy cause:

    https://www.buzzsprout.com/2171073/support

    https://cash.app/$ZaydaSorrellMedina

    Social Media

    https://www.instagram.com/zaydasorrellmedina/

    https://www.facebook.com/drzayda/





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    15 mins
  • Episode 12 | A Poem Dedicated to Birth Moms
    Jan 11 2025

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    In this episode, I present a poem and song dedicated to all birth mothers, and especially birth mothers who had their child taken away in any shape or form. This episode is inspired by my experience as a former foster and homeless youth, adoptive parent, and professor of social work. Share this episode with someone who you believe can resonate.

    Support the show

    About Me

    Dr. Zayda Sorrell-Medina is a professor of social work, researcher, author, educator, and advocate. Her research aims to understand how society (e.g., nonprofits, government) contributes to the inclusion and exclusion of social groups, and particularly among immigrants, religious and ethnic groups, and the foster, adoption, homeless youth community. She is also a foster-adopt parent and former foster-homeless youth and advocate of this community.

    Episode Schedule

    A new episode is released monthly on the 11th with special releases sprinkled throughout the year.

    Connect

    • Subscribe to receive notifications when I release a new episode
    • Ask me a question or propose a topic that you would like me to discuss in this podcast. Email me at zaydasorrellmedina@gmail.com
    • For speaker and consulting, visit zaydasorrellmedina.com

    Support the Show

    Donate directly to support this educational advocacy cause:

    https://www.buzzsprout.com/2171073/support

    https://cash.app/$ZaydaSorrellMedina

    Social Media

    https://www.instagram.com/zaydasorrellmedina/

    https://www.facebook.com/drzayda/





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    8 mins

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