From Foster Youth to Father of Five: Rob Scheer on Foster Care, Adoption & Permanency

What happens when a child enters foster care carrying everything they own in a trash bag? In this powerful episode of From Foster to Forever, Rachel Fulginiti sits down with foster care advocate, author, adoptive father, podcaster, and Comfort Cases founder, Dr. Rob Scheer. As a former foster youth himself, Rob knows firsthand the challenges children face in the foster care system. After aging out of foster care, overcoming trauma, and building a successful life, he went on to adopt five children through foster care and launch a national movement dedicated to bringing dignity, hope, and support to children entering care. In this episode, we discuss: 🔹 Rob's experience growing up in foster care 🔹 Aging out of foster care and overcoming childhood trauma 🔹 Foster care adoption and permanency 🔹 Why children in foster care deserve stable, loving families 🔹 The truth about foster-to-adopt 🔹 Transracial adoption and raising Black children in a white family 🔹 Maintaining relationships with biological family members after adoption 🔹 The importance of trauma-informed parenting 🔹 Foster care reform and child welfare advocacy 🔹 How Comfort Cases is ending the use of trash bags for children entering foster care 🔹 Why every child deserves dignity, belonging, and unconditional love Rob also shares powerful insights about foster care, adoption, resilience, advocacy, and what it truly means to build a forever family. Whether you're considering foster care, currently fostering, have adopted through foster care, work in child welfare, or simply want to better understand the foster care system, this conversation is full of inspiration, practical wisdom, and hope. ❤️ If you enjoyed this episode, please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and SHARE to help us spread awareness about foster care and adoption. 📚 About Rob Scheer Dr. Rob Scheer is a former foster youth, adoptive father of five, author of A Forever Family: Fostering Change One Child at a Time, and founder of Comfort Cases, a nonprofit organization that provides backpacks filled with essential items to children entering foster care. 🎙️ About From Foster to Forever From Foster to Forever shares inspiring foster care and adoption stories, practical resources, and honest conversations about foster parenting, adoption, kinship care, trauma, healing, and family. #FosterCare #FosterAdoption #Adoption #FosterToAdopt #FosterYouth #AdoptiveParents #TraumaInformedParenting #ChildWelfare #FosterParenting #ComfortCases #RobScheer #AdoptionStory #Permanency #ForeverFamily #FosterCareAwareness