Our December Monthly Parent Training will be led by Beth Hall, co-founder and co-director of PACT, An Adoption Alliance, a multicultural adoption organization dedicated to addressing essential issues affecting adopted children of color. Her book is (co-authored with Gail Steinberg),Inside Transracial Adoption. She is a transracial adoptive parent and was raised in an adoptive family, with...
Join us for our IN PERSON ResetDay. Make connections with other foster, adoptive and kinship parents who get it! Breakfast goodies, childcare, and lunch provided. Gather to reset and get equipped to better attune and connect with your children. This can help enhance development and heal trauma within your family and with your children. Get ready...
Description: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) affect over half of the children adopted from Eastern Europe and our own foster care system. This damage to the brain causes a wide...
Course Description: In Part 1, we layed the foundation for parents to have a working knowledge of trauma and its effects on behavior, learning, and home/school climate. We covered awareness of trauma’s...
Details Show Hope’s Hope for the Journey Conference brings together proven, practical teaching and insight as well as everyday, hopeful wisdom for those who are meeting the needs of children impacted by adoption and/or foster care, such as parents/caregivers, teachers, and youth/children's ministry volunteers. Through this conference, you will gain a better understanding of their...
Course Description Learn some of the brain development basics and how this can inform our developing a new parenting model. Explore not only physical and cognitive development, but also emotional development, which is such a growth need for children from hard places. We will look at the significant impact of trauma and how we're doing...