Course Catalog
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Foster Care and Adoption Basics
Covering the basics for parents navigating their journey in foster care and adoption.
10 Tips for Transracial Parenting
Transracial parenting within foster care brings both deep joy and unique responsibility. In this course, 10 Tips for Transracial Parenting, Dave Bagwell—an adoptive dad of three transracial children—offers honest, thoughtful guidance drawn from lived experience. Dave challenges the idea that race should be minimized or ignored, inviting foster parents instead to recognize race as an essential part of a child’s identity—one to be rejoiced over, honored, and celebrated.
Through ten accessible and impactful tips, this course blends philosophical insight, practical strategies, and heart-level reflection. You’ll explore how to cultivate cultural humility, create emotionally safe spaces for conversations about race, advocate for your child in real-world settings, and examine your own assumptions with courage and compassion. Some lessons will stretch your thinking, others will offer hands-on tools you can use immediately, and many will speak directly to the heart of why this work matters.
Designed for foster parents at any stage, this course equips you to parent transracially with greater awareness, confidence, and love—centering your child’s whole identity while building a family culture where difference is not merely acknowledged, but truly celebrated.
Preview This CourseBuilding Parental Resilience
This course discusses the importance of self-care for parents who are fostering or adopting as well as practical ideas on how to incorporate it into their daily routines. The course will help parents learn why maintaining their own mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being is so important when caring for children who have experienced trauma, separation or loss.
Education
This theme helps parents who are fostering or adopting understand some of the educational challenges children who have experienced trauma, separation or loss may encounter. The theme highlights some of the services and supports that can be put in place for children including Individualized Education Plans (IEP) and 504 plans as well as strategies that can be used to partner and advocate with the school system to ensure their educational needs are being sufficiently addressed.
How to Live a Full Life
Kondo Simfukwe, pastor and adoptive dad, knows that Jesus’ mission was clearly stated in John 10:10, and that it is for you to have a life of abundance. However, the hard parts of life often get in the way. Kondo’s message is full of hope and encouragement and an example from scripture to show that Jesus does not call us into anything that He does not leave us with more.
Preview This CourseFoster Care and Adoption Basics
Covering the basics for parents navigating their journey in foster care and adoption.
Preparing for Adulthood
This theme provides an overview of the common skills that youth will need to effectively navigate as an adult and provide strategies on how families who are fostering or adopting can prepare youth to successfully transition into adulthood. The theme highlights the variance that can exist between chronological and developmental age for children who have experienced trauma, separation and loss and how this can impact the transition to adulthood. Some of the challenges that youth may face during this transition are highlighted.
The Missional Impact of Fostering and Adopting
Fostering and adoption are journeys filled with purpose, challenge, and deep calling—but along the way, it’s easy to lose sight of the “why.” In this course, the Ezell family draws from their lived experience to encourage and equip foster and adoptive parents to stay grounded in their mission. Participants will explore what it means to advocate fiercely for the children in their homes, navigate difficult questions with honesty and grace, and endure the sacrifices and struggles that come with loving children from hard places. Through a faith-centered lens, this course offers practical insight and spiritual encouragement, helping families continually point their children—and themselves—toward the hope and healing found in the Savior.
Preview This CourseMental, Physical, & Educational Health
Offering deep insights into the special mental, physical and educational needs of foster and adopted children, and provide practical tools for caregivers.
Building Confidence
Building confidence in your child is important. Ashlyn Ellington, a licensed therapist, explains how to instill confidence through simple and practical ways.
Preview This CourseParenting Your Anxious Child Series
Parenting is often difficult. Parenting a child with anxiety adds another level to the difficulty, and anxiety is seen in children now more than ever before. In this five-part series, Ashlyn Ellington, a licensed therapist, looks at understanding and relating to children struggling with anxiety and how we, as parents, can help them succeed! Earn up to 4 CEs.
Preview This CourseParenting Techniques
Offering hope and wisdom to foster and adoptive parents in areas such as communication, family dynamics, relational needs, and more.
Confronting the Fear of Not Having What it Takes
Dr. Curt Thompson and Jason Johnson confront the question of “Do I have what it takes?” and the real roots of this fear.
Preview This CoursePreparing Yourself For Adoption
Katie McGee, licensed counselor, social worker, TBRI Practitioner, and adoptive parent, discusses the questions to address and work needed for you to be ready for your future children. She digs into looking at past trauma, the 4 styles of attachment, and understanding empathy. You’ll also hear from a foster parent who adopted three children at different ages and empty nesters who found themselves called to adopt a sibling group of teens.
Preview This CourseReckless Faith While Parenting
Beth Guckenberger, co-founder of Back2Back Ministries, shares how stories of faith impact us and our children. These stories may be what drives us or what fuels us to encourage and model for others.
Preview This CourseReframing Success and Failure in Foster Care
Jason Johnson and Dr. Curt Thompson present the idea that success is not only in the outcome but in saying “yes” to the calling.
Safety
Covering a variety of safety topics including car safety, sex education, smart phones, and internet and social media concerns.
Anti-Trafficking: 101 from One More Child
Human Trafficking is an insidious crime. Although it is frequently depicted in the news, movies, and social media, it is often misunderstood. In this series, we hope to help you understand what human trafficking is and whom it affects. You will learn how to “See it” in our very own communities; you will learn how to “Say it” by discovering the proper channels of reporting; we will also discuss how to “Stop it” to put an end to the suffering of God’s children; and finally, we will cover how each of us should respond so that we can reach one more.
Preview This CourseUniversal Human Trafficking Prevention Training
Buckner International, a Texas-based ministry, is dedicated to the transformation and restoration of the most vulnerable. In this training, you will learn the different types of trafficking, what makes a child vulnerable to trafficking, how the child welfare system increases vulnerabilities, individualized and age-appropriate prevention efforts, and how to increase resilience efforts and protective factors for the children you serve.
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Providing support and guidance for the emotional and physical toll parenting takes, including tools for spiritual growth, marital health, and building community.
Fostering and Adopting in a Co-Missional Marriage
Beth Guckenberger is the Co-Executive Director of Back2Back Ministries. Through their fostering, adopting, and parenting journey, she and her husband Todd have learned the blessing of a co-missional marriage and how to fight together against the enemy.
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This is a selection of FaithBridgeU courses offered in Spanish.
Cómo Educar a un Niño Ansioso
La crianza de los hijos suele ser difícil. Criar a un niño con ansiedad añade otro nivel a la dificultad, y la ansiedad se observa en los niños ahora más que nunca. En esta serie de cinco partes, Ashlyn Ellington, terapeuta autorizada, analiza cómo comprender y relacionarse con los niños que luchan contra la ansiedad y cómo nosotros, como padres, podemos ayudarlos a tener éxito.
Crear Confianza
Es importante generar confianza en su hijo. Ashlyn Ellington, terapeuta autorizada, explica cómo infundir confianza de formas sencillas y prácticas.
Demasiado Cansado para Oír a Dios
Beth Guckenberger es esposa, madre de 11 hijos, misionera, maestra y codirectora ejecutiva de Back2Back Ministries. Conoce lo que es el cansancio, y en esta capacitación comparte lo que ha descubierto que es cierto cuando ha estado demasiado cansada para escuchar a Dios.
Derechos de Alardear como Padre
Kondo Simfukwe, pastor y padre adoptivo, analiza cómo sus derechos de fanfarronear se convirtieron en una mejor comprensión de la gracia suficiente de Cristo en la debilidad.
El Propósito Detrás del Comportamiento
Ashlyn Ellington, terapeuta autorizada, analiza la razón y el propósito detrás del comportamiento de un niño.
Establecer una Comunicación Sana
La comunicación sana es clave para cualquier relación y la relación que usted tiene con su hijo no es una excepción. Ashlyn Ellington, terapeuta autorizada, revela cómo todos podemos tener barreras que interfieren con nuestra capacidad de comunicarnos eficazmente… ¡y qué hacer al respecto!
Fe en las Grandes Emociones de la Paternidad
Beth Guckenberger es la codirectora ejecutiva de Back2Back Ministries. Es oradora, autora, misionera, maestra de Biblia y madre. En esta capacitación, Beth comparte el papel que juega la fe al navegar las GRANDES emociones de la paternidad.
¡Habilidades del Plan de Emergencia B cuando el Plan A no Funciona!
Ashlyn Ellington, terapeuta autorizada, sabe que incluso el Plan A mejor formulado no siempre funciona. Ella muestra cómo desarrollar las habilidades del Plan B para estos tiempos.
Lo Difícil y lo Sagrado de Acoger y Adoptar
Todos hemos experimentado días en los que tenemos ganas de rendirnos. Renaut van der Riet, defensor de crianza, padre adoptivo y pastor, no es ajeno a ese sentimiento. En pocas palabras: acoger y adoptar no es fácil. A través de verdades bíblicas, conversaciones reales e historias identificables, Renaut te ayudará a ver que en los momentos más difíciles tenemos la oportunidad de acercarnos a la santidad de nuestro llamado, brindando una nueva perspectiva al trabajo del reino que estamos haciendo.
Paternidad Valiente
Ashlyn Ellington, terapeuta autorizada, sabe que ser padre requiere valentía, y para los padres de crianza y adoptivos, ¡aún más! En esta serie de tres partes, brinda orientación práctica y aliento para desarrollar metas para usted y sus hijos, priorizar estas metas en contextos manejables y luego diseñar estrategias de soluciones para abordar las más importantes.
Redes Sociales y Seguridad en Internet
No es fácil manejar la tecnología con los niños en el hogar y, si bien hay aspectos positivos, los negativos están siempre presentes y requieren atención constante. El detective Phillip Grant, un oficial de policía de la unidad de víctimas especiales, comparte lo que debe tener en cuenta para ayudar a mantener seguros a sus hijos.
Refuerzo y Consecuencias
Ashlyn Ellington, terapeuta licenciada, profundiza en la parte a menudo confusa, pero necesaria, de lidiar con el comportamiento de un niño: el refuerzo y las consecuencias.
Validación
Todo el mundo quiere que se validen sus sentimientos y acciones, y los niños no son una excepción. Únase a Ashlyn Ellington, terapeuta autorizada, para aprender cómo ayudar a su hijo a sentirse validado incluso cuando es necesario modificar un comportamiento.
Trauma Informed Behavior Management
Parenting techniques to establish meaningful connections and address challenging behaviors of children who have experienced significant trauma.
Challenging Behaviors
Challenging behaviors are challenging! Ryan North, TBRI Practitioner, foster and adoptive dad, shares how to create relationships and an environment that result in a decrease in challenging behaviors.
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