Together by AGCI

October is Disability Awareness Month! To celebrate, we chatted with Washington State 2020 Teacher of the Year, Amy Campbell! Amy's focus is special education, advocacy, and inclusion. Tune in and learn more about how you can better advocate for children living with disabilities.

We're back with Season 3 and a deeper dive into how to talk to your children about race! Marisa chatted with educators and transracial adoptees Kevin Hofmann and Tiffany Henness about the importance of having conversations early and often about race with your children. 

When should you talk to your kids about race? Spoiler: now! Marisa chatted with educator and transracial adoptive mom Elizabeth Behrens about how and when to dive into this important topic with your adopted and biological children. Take a listen and let us know what this episode brings up for you!

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) is incredibly common—1 in 20 people in the United States is on the spectrum. While it can be a difficult condition to diagnose and to understand, there is so much hope!

HIV can feel like a scary diagnosis. We chatted with Dr. Mary Staat, Infectious Disease Expert, to dispel the myths and dive into what adopting a child that is HIV+ really looks like!

We are so excited to share that we have a new podcast co-host! Marisa Butterworth is AGCI's West Coast Advancement Officer and an AGCI adoptive mom. We can't wait for you to get to know Marisa!

As we gear up to celebrate Independence Day in the U.S., we’ve been thinking a lot about what independence means in a different context. We asked the young women at the Dream Home—what does independence mean to you?

With Father's Day right around the corner, we chatted with dad and transracial adoptee, Kevin Hofmann. Kevin is a Diversity and Inclusion educator and the author of "Growing Up Black in White" a book that covers his childhood as a transracial adoptee and serves as a guidebook for white parents raising Black children.

We sat down in person with Hollen Frazier, the President of All God’s Children International to talk about her journey into a leadership role. Spoiler—if things had initially gone her way, AGCI wouldn’t have been part of her story. Fortunately, God had a different plan.  If you like what you hear, please rate or review us wherever you listen to podcasts. If you’d like to read or watch even more st...

We sat down (In-person! For the first time!) with AGCI co-founder Ron Beazely. Ron and Jan and their daughter Heather founded AGCI in 1991. Give this episode a listen and hear Ron’s behind the scenes take on the origins of AGCI!

Happy Mother's Day! We chatted with first time adoptive mom, Beka Wolfe, about motherhood, adoption, and everything in between. 

2021 marks 30 years of AGCI! We thought it was only fitting that we sit down with someone who was there at the very start – AGCI co-founder Heather Radu. Heather helped her parents, Ron and Jan Beazely, adopt Hannah, and with the adoption of Hannah, AGCI was born! Please share this podcast with your friends, and consider rating and reviewing it on your podcast platform of choice. If you want to ge...

Together by AGCI is celebrating its first birthday! If you're new to this podcast, this is the perfect place to start. We will be sharing highlights from our first year. If you want to listen to the full version of any of these episodes, you will find them linked below! Please share this podcast with your friends, and consider rating and reviewing it on your podcast platform of choice. If you...

We’re fortunate to work with so many incredible women around the world. In this episode we chatted with three of our in-country partners who are on the ground, changing lives in Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Colombia. Give it a listen and learn more about Tita, Founder and Director of Vidas Plenas in Guatemala, Azeb, AGCI’s Program Director for the Child Advocacy Center in Ethiopia, and Aleja, a clinic...

In celebration of Black History Month, we chatted with Bonita Croyle, a Black transracial adoptee, about how we can show up for our Black and Brown brothers and sisters. This is such an important episode for transracial adoptive families! Give it a listen and let us know what this conversation brings up for you. Instagram: @allgodschildreninternational Email: together@allgodschildren.org

On this week’s episode, Dayn and Melissa chat with Trudy Landis, TBRI Practitioner and Director of the adoptive parent education platform, Families Are Forever. Trudy has over 30 years of experience supporting children and families through transition and trauma and studied with Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross, authors of The Connected Child. You don’t want to miss this episode—Trudy shares th...

We're back in 2021 with new stories, new music, and a new co-host! Take a listen to hear from Dayn's new co-host as they share behind the scenes stories from their work with AGCI. In this episode, we spend a good amount of time talking about what it was like to shoot our series The Path to Hope. You can view the entire series here: https://allgodschildren.org/thepathtohope/

Well, we’re here—2020 is coming to a close. While 2020 was definitely a very hard year, there is still so much to celebrate. Give this episode a listen and hear from AGCI staff about all that God is doing around the world for children and families.

Today we are telling five stories from across the globe. They come straight out of AGCI's giving guide which provides an opportunity for you to practice generosity in five different ways. If you've received the print version of the giving guide, you can follow along with this episode, and if you feel a nudge to give, you can do so here: www.allgodschildren.org/merry We mentioned two othe...

In celebration of National Adoption Month, we thought we’d revisit a story we shared a couple years ago. In 2018, we created a video series called Adoption is ________. One of these videos, Adoption is Amazing, tells the story of the Gehring family whose son Quinton joined their family back in December of 2015 when he was 17 months old. After the Gehring family shares about their first adoption, w...

We have some amazing teammates in Ethiopia, and right now they are working extra hard to be there for our more than 600 families in a difficult season. Listen in as Dayn speaks with Mathewos, Haile, Azeb & Wass about the work in Ethiopia, and what you can do to be a part. For more information on education sponsorship in Ethiopia, click here.

Here today, to help us find more solid ground in the ongoing conversation about race in our culture today is Dr. Charlene Williams. She is an award-winning educator, leader, and the assistant superintendent to the Camas, Washington school district. In June of 2019 she presented a TED talk called, What to Stop and Start Doing in America‘s Race Conversation . We have been honored at AGCI to have her...

Join us for a conversation with AGCI's National Advancement Officer, Jep Robertson of Duck Dynasty fame. Jep will share about how he became connected to AGCI and has developed a passion for helping children and families in need. We also want to let you all know that we have a very special free online concert coming up. Jep will be hosting a very special benefit concert featuring Grammy and Do...

Dayn and Madi are live for episode 17 to celebrate all of the milestones, stories, and upcoming projects for Together by AGCI. You'll hear about what's next for the podcast, as well as some reflections on how far this podcast has come! This will also conclude season one of the show! Tune back in September 24th to kick off season two with a new episode.