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Your one-stop home for foster and adoptive parent training

Live Courses

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October 17, 2024 • 8 - 9 p.m. EDT

Being a Strong Team: Understanding the Power of Unity

Being a Strong Team: Understanding the Power of Unity

October 17, 2024 • 8 - 9 p.m. EDT Instructor: Steve Worth

We all have different roles to play in the lives of children. How do we move towards each other instead of away from or against each other? We will come to the God of endurance and encouragement (Romans 15:5-7) and ask for help to be one in this ministry.

October 21, 2024 • 6 - 8 p.m. EDT

TBRI® Learning Circle

TBRI® Learning Circle

October 21, 2024 • 6 - 8 p.m. EDT Instructor: Tristen McGhee

A Learning Circle is a group where all participants explore a topic of discussion and learn from each other in the process. In each Learning Circle, a different TBRI®-related topic will be introduced.

In this Learning Circle you will:

  • Elaborate your knowledge of a particular TBRI®-related topic
  • Evaluate the topic in relation to your own life
  • Engage with the material and each other
  • Explore ways to implement the concepts to your family

Join us as we grow our insights and relationships with other caretakers on our foster/kinship/adoption journey.

October 23, 2024 • 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. EDT

Youth Centered, Strength Based Care

Youth Centered, Strength Based Care

October 23, 2024 • 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. EDT Instructor: Jon Hester

Two key values considered pivotal in creating nurturing, enriching therapeutic environments are person-centered and strength-based care. A youth-centered environment means empowering the individuals to feel directly involved in their care, treatment, and journey to success.

Working hand in hand with the concept of youth-centered is the idea of a strength-based approach to care - building from and celebrating the child’s competencies or abilities instead of overly focusing on deficits. This workshop aims to equip attendees with the knowledge and skills necessary to integrate both approaches to care into their existing framework.

October 24, 2024 • 8 - 9 p.m. EDT

Grief in Foster Care Connection Group - This Is Not the Outcome We Hoped For

Grief in Foster Care Connection Group - This Is Not the Outcome We Hoped For

October 24, 2024 • 8 - 9 p.m. EDT Instructor: Anne Keller

Maybe you signed up for reunification but reunification is not happening for your child. Maybe you hoped to adopt but now the child is leaving. Maybe you’re happy for reunification but do not feel 100% that things are resolved to ensure a child’s safety.

You may agree with what’s happening, but it is common to feel lot of emotions about a foster care case outcome. Come support each other and learn how to move forward regardless of the outcome.

October 29, 2024 • 7 - 9 p.m. EDT

TBRI® - Nurturing Parenting

TBRI® - Nurturing Parenting

October 29, 2024 • 7 - 9 p.m. EDT Instructor: Lindsey Martin

TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research.

Dive into the world of trauma-informed intervention and gain practical tools to support children from "hard places."

  • Unlock the secrets of attachment
  • Connect with children's needs
  • Disarm fear-based behaviors

TBRI® offers practical tools for caregivers, or anyone who works with children, to see the “whole child” in their care and help that child reach his highest potential.

On-Demand Courses

Preview some of our On-Demand courses

How to Live a Full Life

Kondo Simfukwe

Negative Thinking and Suicidal Ideation

Jason Bohn

The Importance of Living in Community

Dr. Curt Thompson & Jason Johnson

Supporting Your Bio Children When Fostering

Stephanie Watts

Launching Young Adults Differently

Barb Clark

Technology Safety for Neuro-Diverse Youth

Barb Clark

Social Media and Internet Safety

Detective Phillip Grant

Fostering Teens 101

Tori Hope Petersen

The Big Three: Raging, Lying, and Stealing

Barb Clark

Challenging Behaviors

Ryan North

Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Barb Clark

Fostering and Adopting in a Co-Missional Marriage

Beth Guckenberger

Smartphones 101 Series

Barrett Johnson

The 4 R's of Education Advocacy

LaToya Gray, Ed. S.

Parents as Leaders

Mark and Kristin Orphan

Just Keep Swimming in the Midst of Grief and Loss

Barb Clark

Relational Needs of Teenagers

Bryan Davidson & Nathan Castleberry

Bragging Rights as a Parent

Kondo Simfukwe

Parents as Models

Mark and Kristin Orphan

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Fostering and adopting children is a journey that can be both incredibly fulfilling and difficult. Foster and adoptive parents are faced with the challenge of learning to parent differently. FaithBridgeU is here to help.