May is National Foster Care Awareness Month, and we’re kicking it off with one of our most powerful episodes yet.
This week on Fostering Change, host Rob Scheer is joined by special guest co-host Jennifer Perry, Executive Director of the Children’s Action Network and Co-Founder of FosterMore. Jennifer’s tireless advocacy has brought national attention to the urgent needs of the 108,000+ children in U.S. foster care currently waiting for adoptive families.
Together, they sit down with Lara Love Hardin, author of The Many Lives of Mama Love—a 2024 Oprah Book Club selection and New York Times bestseller. In this profoundly moving conversation, Lara shares her remarkable journey through opioid addiction, incarceration, the devastating loss of her children, and how she fought her way back to rebuild her life.
This episode is a raw and inspiring look at:
The transformative power of storytelling
The realities of addiction, incarceration, and recovery
The broken pieces of the foster care system—and how we can fix them
The power of second chances and redemption
🎧 Listen, share, and comment on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts—or wherever you get your podcasts!
📅 New episodes air every Tuesday throughout May in honor of National Foster Care Awareness Month. Remember to subscribe so you don’t miss a single story.
🌐 Learn More & Support:
Comfort Cases – https://www.comfortcases.org
📧 Contact: info@comfortcases.org
🔗 Featured Organizations:
Children’s Action Network
Website: https://www.childrensactionnetwork.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/childrensactionnetwork
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/childrensaction
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChildrensActionNetwork
FosterMore
Website: https://fostermore.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foster_more
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/fostermore
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FosterMore
📚 About Lara Love Hardin:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/laralovehardin
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laralovehardin
📖 Buy The Many Lives of Mama Love: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-many-lives-of-mama-love-a-memoir-of-lying-stealing-writing-and-healing-lara-love-hardin/19897569 or wherever you buy books
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