“Hope for the Journey’s” 2023 Simulcast 

Hosted by the Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition of New York

Join us in the AFFCNY.Network on Saturday April 22nd and April 29th  for the 2023 “Hope for the Journey” Trust Based Relational Intervention virtual training conference. 

The “Hope for the Journey” Conference (formerly the Empowered to Connect Conference) is designed to encourage and equip parents and caregivers meeting the everyday needs of children impacted by adoption and/or foster care. The conference is also a much-needed resource and support for families and communities. The conference includes research-based tools to promote attachment and connection in families such as Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) methods developed by Drs. Karyn Purvis and David Cross at the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU. TBRI is a care model designed to help meet relational and developmental needs of children and youth impacted by trauma.

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Saturday, April 22, 9:30-12:30
-Introduction to Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®): Daren Jones of the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU (KPICD)
– Trauma’s Effect on Neurological Development With Dr. Scott LePor
– TBRI Connecting Principles: Amanda Purvis of the KPICD

Saturday, April 29, 9:30-12:30
– TBRI Empowering Principles: Kari Dady of the KPICD
– Empowering Through Routines & Rituals With Stacy Burrell
– TBRI Correcting Principles: Kimberly Glaudy of the KPICD
– Teaching Through Correcting With Brooks Kaskela

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About Trust Based Relational Intervention or TBRI®

Trust Based Relational Intervention or TBRI® is an attachment-based, trauma-informed intervention that is designed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children. TBRI® uses Empowering Principles to address physical needs, Connecting Principles for attachment needs, and Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviors. While the intervention is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection.

TBRI® is designed for children from “hard places” such as abuse, neglect, and/or trauma. Because of their histories, it is often difficult for these children to trust the loving adults in their lives, which often results in perplexing behaviors. TBRI® offers practical tools for parents, caregivers, teachers, or anyone who works with children, to see the “whole child” in their care and help that child reach his highest potential. Because of their histories, children from hard places have changes in their bodies, brains, behaviors, and belief systems. While a variety of parenting strategies may be successful in typical circumstances, children from hard places need caregiving that meets their unique needs and addresses the whole child.

Developed by Drs. Karyn Purvis and David Cross from the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development (KPICD) at TCU, TBRI (Trust-Based Relational Intervention) 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 high potential. And, perhaps most integral, at TBRI’s core is connection—the truth that connection builds trust, and trust builds healthy relationships.