Posts Tagged ‘Pre+Post Adoption Support’
Hope for the Journey 2022 Conference Hosts, Presenters, and Speakers
Show Hope’s inaugural Hope for the Journey Conference premiered April 9, 2021, with the aim of encouraging parents and caregivers meeting the everyday needs of children impacted by adoption and/or foster care. The conference also served as an opportunity to further resource churches in their endeavors to be beacons of hope and encouragement for families…
Read MoreAdoption and Foster Care Support: Parent Training
It is a drum we continually beat here at Show Hope: The adoption journey doesn’t end on the day a child is welcomed home. In fact, in many ways, it is just beginning. Many children impacted by adoption and/or foster care have experienced abuse, trauma, neglect, and early attachment injuries. In order to help restore…
Read MoreUnderstanding TBRI® Connecting Principles
Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) is a care model designed to help meet relational and developmental needs of children and youth impacted by trauma. TBRI considers the whole child—his or her brain, biology, behavior, body, and beliefs—and provides parents and caregivers with practical tools and insight to help their child(ren) reach his or her highest potential.…
Read MoreHope for the Journey Conference Learning Modules + Example Schedules
The Hope for the Journey Conference schedule will include five high-level learning modules based on the foundational principles of Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) along with a unique 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 a…
Read MoreInvesting in the Future
The day Shaohannah Hope Chapman was placed in Mary Beth Chapman’s arms in a hotel hallway in China, everything changed. First, for Mary Beth, Shaoey, and the Chapman family, but then, as Mary Beth’s desire to help more children and families experience what her family has, Show Hope was born—and that has changed everything for…
Read MoreThe Need + Our Mission
The month of November is National Adoption Month, and we hope you’ll join us as we dive deeper into the why behind what Show Hope does. “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.” —…
Read MoreI Get It Now
I came to Show Hope, a little more than three years ago, to serve as the Director of Communications. At the time, I was a little “green,” but I had a desire and humility to learn and grow. Yet I was a skeptic too. In those first couple of months, we were planning for Show…
Read MorePractical Teaching and Everyday, Hopeful Wisdom
“Having the Hope for the Journey Conference at our church—it was an easy “yes” for us. The practical perspectives were really helpful. These videos of real people who I can look at and say, “Yeah, I get it. And I’m walking a very similar road to you, and I’m encouraged that you’re still going.’” Join…
Read MoreMeet the Myers Family
One of our favorite parts of Show Hope’s inaugural Hope for the Journey Conference was the variety of perspectives shared throughout each of the five learning modules. In a segment known as “Practical Perspectives,” we heard from adult adoptees, foster care alumni, adoptive parents, and siblings of adopted children. The faces and voices featured in…
Read MoreWhat’s Coming At Hope for the Journey Conference 2022
Show Hope’s inaugural Hope for the Journey Conference premiered April 9, 2021, with the aim of encouraging parents and caregivers meeting the everyday needs of children impacted by adoption and/or foster care. The conference serves as an opportunity to further resource churches in their endeavors to be beacons of hope and encouragement for families in…
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