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Family Finding and the Power of Connection | Elizabeth Wendel | Care Visions Professional Talk

Family Finding and the Power of Connection | Elizabeth Wendel | Care Visions Professional Talk

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What happens when a child is moved away from danger but, in the process, also loses the network of relationships connecting them to their family, community, history and identity?In this episode of Professional Talk, Humphrey Hawksley speaks with Elizabeth Wendel, President and Co-founder of Pale Blue and an internationally recognised expert in Family Finding™ and Family Seeing™.Elizabeth explains the principle at the heart of Family Finding: everybody has somebody, and they can be found if we are willing to try.She challenges professionals to think beyond placement and physical safety alone, asking what may also be lost when children are separated from their original relationships. Removal may sometimes be necessary, but Elizabeth argues that foster care, adoption and residential care should not automatically require the disappearance of a young person’s family, community or “original soil”.The conversation explores how relationships help regulate the body’s response to stress. Elizabeth describes this process as buffering: the experience of having a stable person who can say, “I know this is difficult, but I am not going anywhere. We can manage it together.”She also explains the difference between Family Finding and Family Seeing. Finding involves identifying and reconnecting people within a young person’s network. Seeing begins once those people have been found: bringing complex family networks together, acknowledging generations of separation and pain, and helping families rediscover their own knowledge and capacity.Elizabeth shares the deeply personal story of Marella, a young woman she first met at 16 following two disrupted adoptions. Marella had become, in Elizabeth’s words, “lethally lonely” and had built an understanding of her life around the belief that nobody wanted her.Through Family Finding, Elizabeth and her colleagues located Marella’s mother, father and ten siblings across Romania. The process could not remove everything Marella had experienced, but it allowed her to learn her real history rather than continuing to fill the unanswered spaces herself. Their relationship later developed into what Elizabeth describes as a moral adoption, when Marella asked Elizabeth to become her mother.The discussion also considers truth-telling within child welfare. Elizabeth speaks candidly about the harm that professionals and systems can cause, even when they are acting with good intentions, and why acknowledging that harm is essential to improving practice.Danny Henderson of Care Visions joins the conversation to reflect on safeguarding, bureaucracy, moral injury and the danger of reducing complex human relationships to administrative processes. Together, they consider how professionals can protect children while still making space for family, identity, contradiction and belonging.Elizabeth Wendel, MSW, LSW, is President and Co-founder of Pale Blue. She has helped reconnect more than 10,000 young people with over 26,000 family and supportive relationships, influencing child-welfare practice internationally. She also advises governments and major healthcare organisations and writes on trauma-informed practice, organisational culture, economic justice and lifelong family connections.This is the first of two Professional Talk conversations exploring Family Finding and Family Seeing. The second features Pale Blue co-founder and Family Finding author Kevin Campbell.Content note: This episode includes discussion of disrupted adoption, family separation and suicidal distress.Care Visions Talks is a UK podcast sharing conversations on parenting, fostering, care experience and supporting families.Explore all episodes and resources:https://carevisionsfostering.co.uk/care-visions-family-talkListen and follow:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/care-visions-talks/id1819875561Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2cG6jiszfjSBvyLsFjfpreYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CareVisionsTalksFollow on social media:Instagram: https://instagram.com/carevisionstalksFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareVisionsTalksJoin our mailing list for new episodes, events and updates:https://carevisionsfostering.co.uk/care-visions-family-talkSubscribe to stay connected with Care Visions Talks.
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