Monthly Support Group Meetings
Fostering Hope Monthly Support Group Meetings are where foster and adoptive families come to find community, support, connection, and encouragement. The majority of our meetings use the book Reframing Foster Care as a starting point for conversations. Each meeting also allows a time to share and for prayer requests. On occasion, we have a guest speaker or provide a specialized training session during our meeting time.
Our meetings are typically held on the first Tuesday of each month from 6:30 – 8:30 pm in Room 304 of the ROC Building with childcare available. However, due to current circumstances, meetings are being held online via Zoom video conference through the end of the year.
Meetings are being held in-person with an option to join via Zoom. Email fosteringhopefcbc@gmail.com for more information and to be added to our email list.
Hope for the Journey Conference
Co-hosted By: Hope Street, Inc. and Fostering Hope, Fruit Cove Baptist Church
April 24, 2021
9 am – 6 pm
Fruit Cove Baptist Church, Studio
Online option available: View anytime between 4/26 – 5/31
Formerly known as Empowered to Connect, the Hope for the Journey Conference will equip parents and caregivers meeting the everyday needs of children impacted by adoption and foster care and further resource churches in their endeavors to be beacons of hope and encouragement for families in their congregation and surrounding communities.
We are excited to partner with Hope Street, Inc., who will be leading the day and providing an interactive experience with a combination of live and video-based instruction. The conference is free, and lunch and snacks are included. Childcare will not be available. Fostering Hope will provide certificates for licensing hours.
Online: There is an at-home viewing option available. We will provide digital attendees with a link to the pre-recorded conference that can be accessed anytime through May 31st. It will consist of the full event hosted by Show Hope. We have 30 links available to share. Register below to reserve your link. Certificates for licensing hours will be provided for digital attendees after completing a short quiz.
The Hope for the Journey Conference will include five high-level learning modules based on the foundational principles of 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. Also included will be two practical, encouraging “Practical Perspectives” videos featuring the voices of adult adoptees and adoptive and foster families.
- 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 to feature a discussion of the challenges to and importance of finding rhythms to promote unity as parents during the day-to-day.
- Learning Modules 5: TBRI and the Gospel “Going Deeper” topic to discuss the relational nature of God and the incarnation of Jesus as foundational cornerstones informing the efficacy of TBRI.
