Parenting Education

An in-depth training designed to help foster and adoptive parents move from theory into behavioral applications, giving participants a knowledge base, then providing them with real-life tools they can use with their own children and families. The aim of this training is not only to help participants understand the relationship history of “children from hard places,” but also to give them tools to move forward and deepen and strengthen connections with them. 

4 One-Day (6-hour) Presentations

Workshop Topics:

1. Introduction & Overview 

As an overview, this module is designed to give participants exposure to all parts of TBRI by highlighting the ways in which each section of the intervention strategy fits into the holistic nature of TBRI 

2. Connecting Principles 

This module focuses on attachment, which is the most important dynamic system that a child experiences during development. 

3. Empowering Principles 

This module aims to give participants practical tools to facilitate learning and practicing self-regulation skills. 

4. Correcting Principles 

This module is designed to help participants learn skills that can be used to manage children’s behavior. 

A program designed for caregivers of children ages 0-5 to promote secure attachment. Based on decades of research about how secure parent-child relationships can be supported and strengthened.

8 Weekly 2-hour Sessions

Learning Objectives of the Program:

• • • Understand your child’s emotional world by learning to read the emotional needs

    • Support your child’s ability to successfully manage emotions

    • Enhance the development of your child's self-esteem

    • Honor your innate wisdom and desire for your child to be secure

12 Weekly 1-hour Sessions

A book study and discussion group designed to prepare and equip foster and adoptive parents to better love, serve, and care for the children that God has brought into their lives.

Topics Covered:

• Hope and Healing

• Where Your Child Began

• Solving the Puzzle of Difficult Behavior

• Disarming the Fear Response with Felt Safety

• Teaching Life Values

• You Are the Boss

• Dealing with Defiance

• Nurturing at Every Opportunity

• Proactive Strategies to Make Life Easier

• Supporting Healthy Brain Chemistry

• Handling Setbacks

• Healing Yourself to Heal Your Child

8 Weekly 1-hour Sessions

A book study and discussion group designed to help parents take strides toward bringing control to an out-of-control family life, set limits while still being a loving parent—and above all, instill in their children the godly character that is the foundation for healthy, productive adult living. 

Topics Covered:

• • Identifying the boundary issues underlying child behavior problems 

  • Setting boundaries and establishing consequences with your kids 

  • Getting out of the “nagging” trap"

  • Relinquishing control and helping your child develop self-control instead                                     

  • Applying the ten laws of boundaries to parenting 

  • Taking six practical steps for implementing boundaries with your kids