Preparing Our Hearts: A Foster Care Journey Podcast

MacKillop Family Services commissioned sector research to better understand how best to support carers and their family when children leave their care.

To complement and unpack this important research report, MacKillop created a 5-episode podcast Preparing Our Hearts: A Foster Care Journey.In the podcast, host Clinician Summah Hemming, interviews Dr Kertesz, experienced foster and kinship carers, carers’ biological children, and foster care professionals to further examine the experiences, challenges, coping strategies and support around saying goodbye to a foster child.