2021 Hope for the Journey Conference
(Formerly the Empowered to Connect Conference)
The Hope for the Journey Conference will equip parents and caregivers meeting the everyday needs of children and further resource churches in their endeavors to be beacons of hope and encouragement for families in their congregation and surrounding communities.
The adoption journey does not end on the day a child is welcomed home; in fact, the journey is just beginning. Children impacted by adoption and/or foster care have often experienced early attachment injuries related to loss, abuse, trauma, and/or neglect. There is hope and help, though. Whether you are in the adoption process, have welcomed a child home through adoption, or are loving and serving well children through foster care, you are not alone.
Show Hope’s Hope for the Journey Conference seeks to encourage and better equip parents and caregivers meeting the everyday needs of children impacted by adoption and/or foster care. The conference remains low-cost, high-impact as Show Hope also works to resource churches, agencies, and other organizations as they support and equip the families, caregivers, and the communities they serve. Structurally, the Hope for the Journey Conference will include five high-level learning modules based on the foundational principles of Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) along with a new teaching component, The Gospel + TBRI. Embedded within each learning module will be a “Going Deeper” teaching video on a select topic, and also included will be two practical, encouraging “Practical Perspectives” videos featuring the voices of adult adoptees as well as adoptive and foster families.
Cost per household: $20
To register, click the ‘add conference registration’ button below to display shopping cart. Enter number of households under quantity and press ‘enter’. Click the ‘check out with PayPal’ button to go to PayPal site to make payment and complete registration.
Conference Modules:
Learning Module 1: An Introduction to Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)
“Going Deeper” topic to include the importance of understanding ACES.
Learning Module 2: Connecting Principles
“Going Deeper” topic to explore biological and adoptive sibling dynamics.
Learning Module 3: Empowering Principles
“Going Deeper” topic to unpack the need to acknowledge one’s own limitations and implement self care strategies as a care provider.
Learning Module 4: Correcting Principles
“Going Deeper” topic featuring a discussion of the challenges to and importance of finding rhythms to promote unity as parents during the day-to-day.
Learning Modules 5: The Gospel + TBRI
“Going Deeper” topic to discuss the relational nature of God and the incarnation of Jesus as foundational cornerstones informing the efficacy of TBRI.
Continuing Education
Certificates of completion will be made available for adoptive and foster families to submit to their respective agencies.
Unlike previous years, professional continuing education will not be offered through Show Hope.
