Meet Our CEO Jo August: Why Foster Care Matters 🎧 Let’s Talk About Fostering
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Meet Our CEO Jo August: Why Foster Care Matters 🎧 Let’s Talk About Fostering
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About this listen
Welcome to the very first episode of Let’s Talk About Fostering — the podcast from the Polaris Community, hosted by Faye.
In this episode, Faye is joined by Polaris CEO Jo August, who has 35+ years’ experience working across children’s services — and who also grew up in a fostering household. Jo shares her journey into social care, explains what Polaris does across fostering, residential care, schools and adoption, and challenges common misconceptions about foster care and children in care.
We also talk about:
- Why Jo prefers the term “foster parent” over “foster carer”
- The real impact of foster care (beyond the simplified definitions)
- Why outcomes in foster care aren’t always “headline” moments — and why small wins matter
- How to support children who foster (birth children in fostering households)
- The qualities that help foster parents thrive: emotional intelligence and resilience