Today we continue our “Best of Season 5” Series with an interview Rob conducted in May with friend of Comfort Cases, Benjy Grinberg. Benjy is an award-winning record producer, who has worked with superstars including Mac Miller, Wiz Khalifa, KT Tunsall and more. But he discovered he had another calling, and that was to become a CASA.

Benjy and Rob discuss why he chose to take on this wonderful opportunity to help our youth in foster care and what he’s expecting to gain from the experience.

To learn more about becoming a CASA, please visit: https://nationalcasagal.org/

To learn more about Benjy:

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/benjybenjy

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjy-grinberg-ba85653/

Thank you again for listening, and please remember to send in any comments or questions to info@comfortcases.org.

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We hope you’ve been enjoying our “Best of Season 5 episodes, and have been able to catch up on other episodes of Fostering Change you may have missed.

Today, we revisit an episode that aired back in November: Rob Scheer interviews Peter Mutabazi: entrepreneur, international advocate for children, and the founder of Now I Am Known, a nonprofit that supplies resources that encourage and affirm children and families. A single adoptive father of three and foster dad to many (34 as of this date!), Mutabazi is a former street kid originally from Uganda who has worked for World Vision, Compassion International, and the Red Cross, and has appeared on media outlets such as the BBC and The TODAY Show.

Rob and Peter discuss his book, Now I Am Known: How a Street Kid Turned Foster Dad Found Acceptance and True Worth, how Peter’s organization is helping countless youth in foster care, and what it takes to be a single parent / foster parent.

To learn more about Peter and Now I Am Known, please visit:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fosterdadflipper

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fosterdadflipper/

Website: https://www.nowiamknownfoundation.org/

As a reminder, you can listen to previous episodes of Fostering Change, by visiting: www.comfortcases.org/podcast or your favorite podcast outlets.

If you have any comments, questions, or guest suggestions, we’d love to hear from you! Please write us at info@comfortcases.org.

Thank you for listening and we’ll see you again on July 30th!

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Welcome back to our “Best of Season 5” series. Maybe you’ll be listening to this on the beach as you celebrate Independence Day, in your car on your way to work, or at home. Wherever you listen, we thank you for your support!

Today we revisit our interview with Laura, whose mission is to educate and support people about the foster care system. Often, new foster parents are not prepared for everything they need to know before their first children come to them.

Laura discuss how the “cracks of child welfare are deep”, from misplaced birth certificates to wrong names of the child, and without knowing the right types of questions to ask, you run the risk of not knowing these things and have to play catch up - which is not the situation a new foster parent - or their child - wants to be in!

In this insightful conversation, you will hear:

• What sweeping changes need to be made in the foster care system
• What should be considered when setting up your home for a foster child
• How every state has different rules and regulations and how that affects parents and youth
• How we should be moving from “mandated reporting” to “mandated supporting”

You can learn more about Laura by visiting her here:

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/foster.parenting

Website: https://www.fosterparentpartner.com/

Instagram: @foster.parenting

TikTok: @fosterparenting

YouTube: @foster.parenting

Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-a74dff14

Our next “Best of” episode will air July 16. As always, you can find an archive of all 5 seasons of Fostering Change here: https://comfortcases.org/podcasts/.

If you have any questions, please feel free to send us an email at info@comfortcases.org.

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