Why Don’t You Just Act Your Age? How to Understand the Teenagers You Love
Let’s learn and practice together how to best meet the needs of our teens. We will explore practical strategies to help us reconnect with our teens or tweens, understand the “why” behind their behavior, and recreate the important developmental milestones they may have missed. You’ll gain valuable insights about the difference between your teens’ developmental […]
The Beauty of Transformation: The Brain, Relationships, and the Renewal of All Things
Given how our minds work, our attention is more quickly drawn to danger – to trouble. As such, we spend more time paying attention to, and thereby framing the world in terms of, problems. Our tacit way of engaging our lives, not least our work in foster and adoption enterprises, is by first and often […]
The Attachment Repairing Treatment Model
The Family Simulation Model clinically addresses the mental health and behavioral needs of foster care‘s most vulnerable children, while attuning to the child’s attachment, environmental, and sensory needs. Come learn how attachment repairing modalities and activities can be organically infused into the daily routines of each child. Walk away with new ideas to restore hope […]
Supporting Physiological Needs Through TBRI®
Trust Based Relational Intervention® is based in attachment theory, neuroscience, and the Neurosequential Model. By bringing these three things together we have created a unique way of meeting the needs of children and creating environments where healing and growth can occur. Join us as we discuss the practical ways to help children’s brains and bodies […]
Solving Your Adoption Travel Needs (Coaching Table)
Join this one-stop-shop for your adoption travel questions! You’ll receive tools for your upcoming travel and learn how to best prepare for every scenario. Don’t let daunting travel requirements hinder your plans! We’re here to help.
Responding to Attachment Needs through TBRI®
By understanding attachment and the patterns it creates both in us, as well as those we serve, we can create healing environments. Join us as we dive into the four skills of secure attachment and talk about the research-based methods for creating environments that help heal attachment wounds. We will also begin to look at […]
Removing Financial Barriers for Your Adoption (Coaching Table)
Bring your questions and challenges to this small-group coaching session focused on navigating the financial barriers to adoption – and accessing Show Hope’s adoption aid grants.
Post-Adoption Medical Needs Assistance (Coaching Table)
Learn more about Show Hope’s medical care grants, which stand ready to assist your unique post-adoption medical needs.
Conversations with Adult Adoptees & Foster Alum
Bring your burning questions as these wise voices discuss honest experiences of living as an adopted person or in foster care. Consider everyday scenarios including living in a multi-cultural family, dealing with loss, answering “those” questions, and much more. Leave encouraged and equipped to build strong families who face challenges and opportunities together.
Calm Out of Chaos, Building Better Birth Parent Relationships
The relationship between a foster/adoptive parent and a birth parent can have a critical impact in the life of a child. In this workshop, we will examine briefly what the data tells us about a child’s on-going relationship with their birth parent. We will hear stories from foster and adoptive parents about their experience building […]
