Details: 6:00PM – 8:00PM Normally meets: 2nd TUESDAY of every month, 6:00PM – 8:00PM Cost: FREE / Please RSVP on or before the Monday before group Come join us for a relaxed time of food, fellowship and good conversation with other adoptive parents Questions? We’d love to hear from you. Feel free to email Joanne...
Description: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) This condition affects roughly half of adoptees but goes largely unrecognized outside Canada and a few states. It looks like a variable combination of ADHD, Autism symptoms, Attachment Disorder, PTSD and willful misbehavior--along with poor parenting. It baffles and exhausts parents, professionals, and the people who have it, child...
Description: When a family is in crisis, it’s often all they can think about, as they move into survival mode. They are focused on the child’s behaviors and frustrations rather than on growth and healing. But the key to successfully handling crisis in our homes begins long before we are in a crisis. In this workshop, Erin Bouchard, owner...
WHY ATTACHMENT DISORDERS LOOK, FEEL, AND RESPOND DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHER TRAUMA CONDITIONS Course Description: Children who have experienced continued disruption in the formation of primary attachments require a unique set of approaches that will often appear counter-intuitive to what most care providers feel is normal or comfortable for them. Primary caretakers and direct service providers...
Course Description: Struggling to find the “right” way to respond to your child’s challenging behaviors? Wishing that you (and they) didn’t often feel worse after you’ve tried to intervene? Join the club! Learn more about how the trauma-informed, practical tips from the Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) model (established by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David...
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 complex...
