Welcome to FaithBridgeU!

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. TBRI® is designed for children from “hard places” such as abuse, neglect, and/or trauma. Because of their histories, it is often difficult for these children to trust the loving adults in their lives, which often results in perplexing 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.

Human Development - Understanding Childhood, Adolescence, and Transitions to Adulthood

This course will review the ages and stages of development focusing on what happens when development is impacted by neglect, toxic stress, abuse, or trauma. The developmental stage of adolescence will be detailed including dynamics of self-expression, self-awareness, self-esteem development, value development and clarification, and identify formation. In addition, transitions to adulthood and independent living and life skills will be examined.

The Why’s of Foster Care - Bringing Calm

This group supports foster and adoptive parents in creating a peaceful and stable environment for children who have experienced trauma. Explore techniques and share insights on how to bring calmness into your home, helping children feel secure and supported. Join our community to discuss stress management strategies, mindfulness practices, and ways to cultivate a nurturing atmosphere that promotes healing and growth for both children and parents.

Tools to Help You Not Give Up - The 7 Primal Questions

Find out what your primal question is, through an interactive assessment during the training and understand how to effective utilize your core in parenting. Fighting off a constant urge to shrink back or even give up? Confused by your own behavior when tension arises? Using the Primal Question Framework, foster parents work with Angela to find much-needed clarity around our own emotional needs, unlocking our capacity to stay the course and spend less time in frustration and more time making a meaningful impact! We’ll nurture our relational intelligence by putting language around the subconscious questions brewing below the surface and discover how these hidden forces simultaneously drive both our relational superpower and most chaotic moments.

The Gift of Creativity in Respite: Hearing the Voice of God on How to Serve

What are the biggest roadblocks to creativity in respite? We will consider God’s heart toward children and ask him for wisdom to enable respite that nurtures and connects, even if it is hard.

Sometimes it’s hard to carry two emotions at once. It may feel wrong or like you’re betraying the other. Or it may feel too hard or conflicting. But what if you can grieve and still have joy at the same time? What does that look like?