Focus on the Family is proud to sponsor this incredible event. It’s a must-see for parents and caregivers.
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.
Hope for the Journey 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.
There are some changes to the platform and process this year. Even if you have registered in previous years, we encourage you to read through the Frequently Asked Questions below before requesting your FREE registration.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Hope for the Journey?
A Little Background
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 next several years, the conference grew 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.
What Hope for the Journey looks like today
With these markers in place, guided by the vision set forth by Show Hope Founders, Mary Beth and Steven Curtis Chapman, Hope for the Journey continues 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 be encouraged as they continue to journey well with their children.
This year’s Hope for the Journey content will be available to access on April 1, 2025, 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. This is a great tool for parents, caregivers, church staff and volunteers, therapists, counselors, educators, coaches, adoption agencies, foster care systems, family court systems, juvenile justice systems, social workers, medical professionals, law enforcement, and first responders.
What does the registration process look like through Wait No More?
- Click the link above and fill out the form to let us know you want a free registration to Hope For The Journey.
- Watch your email over the next three business days for a confirmation email from Wait No More that will contain your coupon code. Make sure you check your spam/junk email folders, as well.
- Follow the instructions that will take you to Show Hope’s site to register. Be sure to use the coupon code to access your FREE 12-month registration.
NEW for Hope for the Journey 2025
Instead of a 3-month viewing window as in previous years, Hope for the Journey is also offering a 12-month plan beginning in 2025.
When you register with Wait No More by Focus on the Family, you will receive FREE access to the 12-month plan. You must use the coupon code you are given between March 1 – June 30, 2025 to utilize the FREE registration.
An integral resource within Show Hope’s Pre+Post Adoption Support work, Hope for the Journey is a fully customizable platform, based on your unique needs, and includes the following.
+ 5 teaching sessions based on the fundamentals of Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®), led by seasoned educators, practitioners, and professionals, as outlined below
+ 5 “Going Deeper” video segments on curated and relevant topics
+ 5 “Practical Perspectives” video segments from parents and caregivers with lived experience as well as voices of adult adoptees and/or foster care alum
+ A unique exploration of the intersection between the gospel and trauma-informed care and practices
+ Bonus video content that focuses on enduring or specialized topics, including ACEs and TBRI in the classroom
+ Access year-round, with content added and refreshed annually
+ And more …
What modules are included in Hope for the Journey?
An Introduction to TBRI
Hope for the Journey is a versatile resource that can be used in a variety settings—at home, as support for individuals and families you serve, and within groups, fostering community and shared understanding.
TBRI Connecting Principles
In this session, you’ll explore attachment theory and how to help your children feel valued, safe, and connected. You’ll walk away with practical strategies for addressing fear and building trust in everyday life, so your child or teen can expand his or her capacity for connection, growth, and learning.
TBRI Empowering Principles
Empowering Principles examine how our bodies and external environments shape and impact our needs. With that understanding, you’ll learn different strategies for better meeting the physical and sensory needs of your children, helping them navigate transitions, and more, so they eventually learn how to regulate and balance their minds and bodies.
TBRI Correcting Principles
It’s important to remember that behavior will not change without connection. The real transformation comes through proactive connecting and empowering strategies. However, there will be times when we need to correct behavior. These principles will help you teach your child appropriate strategies for getting his or her needs met.
The Gospel + TBRI
This session unpacks how TBRI and its principles are tangible expressions of the gospel of Jesus Christ, as outlined by Show Hope. It offers parents, caregivers, church leaders, and professionals a better understanding of practical opportunities to live out their faith in their homes and communities.
Is the Hope for the Journey Conference faith-based?
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, Hope for the Journey includes a module and additional resources to explore the gospel as foundational to TBRI.
It is Show Hope’s desire that Hope for the Journey 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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