Unpacking Survival Skills as a Kid in Foster Care

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Diamond Kobylinski describes how he literally had to unpack his survival mechanisms from growing up in the foster care system after being adopted.

Diamond also shares about how his relationships developed over time with his adoptive moms, Amy and Jessica. And how an unexpected medical event impacted those relationships.

This episode is part 2 of The Extra-Intense Life of a Gay Kid in Foster Care.

Featured Guest

Diamond Kobylinski | Drag Queen Winner & Former Youth in Care

Diamond with his family.


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Kids Crossing

We’re so thankful for our community of supporters that makes Just As Special possible including our Season 2 sponsor Kids Crossing, a private foster care agency started by foster parents for foster parents.

Arguably the most important decision to make when becoming a foster parent is what agency you’ll choose. Because as a foster parent, you will rely on your foster care agency for support.

Kids Crossing provides many no-cost services including:

  • Therapy services for the kids

  • Family therapy

  • Family preservation services

  • Foster parent support groups

  • Parenting coaches

  • Trauma-informed parenting training

  • And much more!

Kids Crossing is also committed to diversity and inclusion and has partnered with Just As Special to provide their foster parents with virtual, on-demand training.

This training is focused on helping foster parents practically apply lessons learned from diverse perspectives of foster care through powerful personal interviews with former foster youth; multi-cultural foster families; same-sex foster families; foster care professionals; and much more.

Kids Crossing foster parent Ben said, “Just As Special gives me insight from different people in foster care such as other foster parents or former foster kids. These perspectives have opened up my mind to different ways of thinking, which in turn helped me better understand my foster kiddo.”

Kids Crossing has four locations across Colorado in Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and La Junta.

Learn more at KidsCrossing.com and tell them Just As Special sent you.

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