Welcome to FaithBridgeU!

This training provides families with the knowledge and practical strategies needed to advocate effectively for the educational success of foster children and youth. There are unique challenges that children and youth in foster care often face, including school instability, academic disruptions, educational gaps, and social-emotional barriers to learning. Participants will learn how to identify educational needs, navigate educational systems, collaborate with schools and caregivers, and support educational continuity and achievement. Participants will strengthen their ability to champion the rights, resources, and opportunities that help foster children and youth reach their full academic potential. 

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. 

This course is taught by Lindsey Martin. Lindsey Martin, LCSW is a practicing therapist, TBRI Practitioner, and a trainer for FaithBridge. She specializes in Complex Childhood Trauma, Grief and Loss, Sexual Trauma, Parenting Issues, Attachment, Anxiety, Self Esteem, Career Counseling, and Spiritual Trauma. Lindsey has her Masters of Social Work from the University of Southern Mississippi, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Alabama, Licensed Clinical, Social Worker Georgia, Trust Based Relational Intervention, National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative, W.I.S.E. Up! Facilitator, Research/Continuing Education Training Curriculum Development: Grief and Loss in Foster Care, Supporting Biological Parents in Foster Care, Connecting Your Spiritual Health to Your Child's Well Being, Crucial Conversations in Foster Care and Adoption.

Parenting a child/youth with ADHD can be challenging, but there are strategies that can help. When we learn about ADHD to understand the child/youth better, it helps us realize how parenting differently can bring stronger results. Basic beginnings with consistent daily routine, simple instructions, and smaller steps in tasks, helps your child/youth with their ability to grasp expectations, stay focused, and not feel overwhelmed. Encourage regular exercise to help release excess energy, coupled with monitoring and controlling screen time, as excessive exposure can exacerbate symptoms. Ensure your child/youth gets enough sleep and maintains a balanced diet. Also, no matter how resistant it feels, positive reinforcement for good behavior and provide frequent positive feedback is more effective than negative consequences. Be patient and understanding and remember that your child/youth's behavior is not their fault. Consult with a healthcare professional about medication, seek help from therapists, support groups, or school resources. Be mindful of the importance of caring for your own stress and challenges of parenting a child/youth with ADHD.

This training module focuses on understanding the impact of trauma on sleep and providing foster parents and caregivers with trauma-informed strategies to help children in care develop healthy sleep habits. It emphasizes the importance of creating a calming, secure sleep environment and offers practical tools for addressing common sleep problems.

This course is taught by Jon Hester. Jon is a Trauma Therapist, Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional, Certified Maxwell Leadership Coach, Certified DISC Behavioral Analyst, Career Coach and Counselor, Life Coach, and Trainer.

Children with prenatal opioid exposure are now entering our foster homes, adoptive families, and communities by the hundreds of thousands—yet few caregivers have been taught how opioid exposure can affect the developing brain long after the newborn period.

This engaging, hope-filled session moves beyond the myths of NAS to explore the long-term effects of prenatal opioid exposure on learning, behavior, sensory processing, emotional regulation, executive functioning, attachment, and more. Caregivers will gain a new understanding of why these children struggle, helping replace frustration with compassion and practical strategies.

Whether you’re parenting a child with a known history of opioid exposure or simply wondering if it could explain what you’re seeing, this presentation will change the way you understand and support the children in your care.

You’ll leave with greater confidence, renewed hope, and practical insights you can begin using immediately.

This course is taught by Lenette Serio. Lenette is the Founder and CEO of Generation O, The National Organization for Opioid-Exposed Children, and an adoptive mother of four substance-exposed children, including two sons with prenatal opioid exposure. Drawing on both lived experience and the latest research, she educates caregivers and professionals nationwide about the long-term effects of prenatal opioid exposure. Lenette serves on the NIH HEAL Human Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study National Liaison Board and is a national advocate working to improve outcomes for opioid-exposed children and the families raising them.

Do you struggle with parenting your foster teens? Join us for this training on how to break down the walls teenagers have to protect themselves in practical ways.

You remember from training that many of these birth parents come from broken homes themselves and are only repeating a cycle where they know no different. your head knowledge tells you one thing, but your heart is having a hard time loving on birth families through their hard when you see what the children are going through. Let’s discuss how to deal with emotions surrounding birth families and setting up boundaries for yourself if needed so that you can remain respectful and supportive. This course is taught by Anne Keller. Anne is a LCSW, Therapist, SAFE Certified Home Study Consultant, and FaithBridge Trainer.

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. 

This course is taught by Lindsey Martin. Lindsey Martin, LCSW is a practicing therapist, TBRI Practitioner, and a trainer for FaithBridge. She specializes in Complex Childhood Trauma, Grief and Loss, Sexual Trauma, Parenting Issues, Attachment, Anxiety, Self Esteem, Career Counseling, and Spiritual Trauma. Lindsey has her Masters of Social Work from the University of Southern Mississippi, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Alabama, Licensed Clinical, Social Worker Georgia, Trust Based Relational Intervention, National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative, W.I.S.E. Up! Facilitator, Research/Continuing Education Training Curriculum Development: Grief and Loss in Foster Care, Supporting Biological Parents in Foster Care, Connecting Your Spiritual Health to Your Child's Well Being, Crucial Conversations in Foster Care and Adoption.