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Focus on the Family is proud to sponsor this incredible event. It’s a must-attend for parents and caregivers.

Hope for the Journey Conference

You will learn how to harness The Gospel + TBRI®.

Foster care and adoption are big seasons in the life of a child. Many of them come through it bearing the wounds of loss, abuse, trauma, or neglect. These early attachment issues are heartbreaking, but they are not hopeless.

The Hope for the Journey Conference walks parents and caregivers through a powerful model built on the principals of Trust-Based Relational Intervention® and the Gospel. It’s important to be prepared — because the journey does not end when you welcome a child home. In fact, it is just beginning.

Frequently Asked Questions

Show Hope launched its Empowered to Connect Conference in 2010 with the aim of equipping parents, caregivers, ministry leaders, and care professionals to better serve children impacted by adoption and foster care. Over the past 10 years, the conference has grown to include research-based tools to promote attachment and connection in families such as Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) methods developed by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross from the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU. At its core, TBRI works to promote trust, attachment, and connection between caregivers and children by addressing physical and emotional needs while also disarming fear-based behaviors.

Over the years, Show Hope has had the opportunity to hear from parents, ministry leaders, and professionals on the ever-changing, complex needs they face in serving children who have been impacted by early loss and trauma. Show Hope staff members also hold rich knowledge and experience with TBRI, and we continue to learn about new research, resources, and tools that align in scope with the concepts of connection, belonging, and security. And so, with this assessment of our Empowered to Connect Conference, we have also continued to return to our mission and see with fresh eyes that Show Hope does, in fact, stand in a unique place of resourcing the Church to serve families.

With these markers in place, guided by the vision set forth by Show Hope Founders, Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman, the Hope for the Journey Conference will continue to build upon attachment-based knowledge and experience and introduce robust resources and share practical experiences of successes and failures of day-to-day parenting and caregiving. It is Show Hope’s aim that parents and caregivers will leave encouraged as they continue to journey well with their children.

The 2024 Hope for the Journey Conference will be available for on-demand viewing from Friday, April 5, 2024 through June 30, 2024, for individuals and organizations and includes the Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) model for caring well for children impacted by adoption and foster care. Show Hope is working to resource churches, agencies, and other organizations as they support and equip the families, caregivers, and the communities they serve.

The Hope for the Journey Conference can be consumed in one day, targeting parents and caregivers meeting the everyday needs of children impacted by adoption and/or foster care. In an effort to make the conference more accessible to this audience, the information will be succinct and consumable in its delivery. To that end, Show Hope will, once again, be leveraging video content as a major component in the 2024 conference. Additionally, to provide greater flexibility for hosts to tailor the conference to meet needs in their community, the Hope for the Journey Conference will be modular in nature. This will allow the event to be consumed in one day or shared over multiple training sessions or weeks.

Structurally, the Hope for the Journey Conference will include five high-level learning modules based on the foundational principles of TBRI along with a fifth 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 one encouraging “Practical Perspectives” video featuring the voices of adult adoptees and/or foster youth alum as well as adoptive and/or foster families.

Learning Module 1: An Introduction to Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)

Learning Module 2: Connecting Principles

Learning Module 3: Empowering Principles

Learning Module 4: Correcting Principles

Learning Module 5: The Gospel + TBRI

Show Hope is a faith-based organization and evidence of that faith will naturally be part of the Hope for the Journey Conference (as it was with the Empowered to Connect Conference). In an effort to further engage the Church in elevating trauma-competency, Show Hope will introduce a new supplemental module and additional resources to explore the gospel as foundational to TBRI.

It is Show Hope’s desire that the conference serves as a resource for the churches and organizations that host, allowing them to further open their doors and build relationships with families impacted by adoption and foster care in their communities.

Moving to a modular format gives hosts the flexibility to make decisions about which portions of the conference are most helpful in their context.

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