So, there’s someone you like?: How to discuss healthy relationships with your youth

Fostering Parenthood

When youth begin to establish romantic relationships, you may feel the need to give the kneejerk “use a condom” speech, but do you discuss the signs of a healthy relationship? Our guest Kat McKeon, a former foster youth, discusses her experience in healthy and unhealthy relationships and what she wishes her caregivers would have said to her.

Guest on the show: Kat McKeon, former foster youth, RHEP Youth Advisory Board member

Calls To Action:

Model healthy relationships (11:53)

Show the conflict and the resolution (13:11)

Mirroring (13:25)

About Fostering Parenthood:

Fostering Parenthood is a podcast by caregivers for caregivers promoting the healthy sexual development of foster youth, brought to you by the National Center for Youth Law and the Reproductive Health Equity Project.

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