TBRI Training for Parents & Social Workers

Trust Based Relational Interventions® (TBRI®): Connecting Principle

Holt-Sunny Ridge Children's Services and The University of Chicago Adoption Center are excited to announce the second of four workshops on Trust Based Relational Interventions® (TBRI®), presented by Pam Shepard, LCSW and Linda Walsh, NP.

Saturday, February 21, 2015

9:00AM to 2:00PM

Location: Holt-Sunny Ridge Children's Services

270 Remington Boulevard, Suite C

Bolingbrook, IL 60440

Are you looking for parenting strategies to help you address your child's trauma history?

Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®), is an emerging intervention model developed by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross (authors of the popular book "The Connected Child") at the TCU Institute of Child Development.

The second workshop of the series will focus on the TBRI ® principle "Connecting."

The goals for this workshop are to: 

• understand what secure attachment looks like between children and caregivers, 
• learn helpful ways to help build a connection with children who come from hard places, 
• understand the impact attachment history can have on children's behavior, 
• gain awareness about how our own attachment history influences the way we parent, 
• and learn appropriate proactive strategies to empower children with behavioral tools

Workshop fee: $35 per person; includes workbook; 30 people maximum;
CEU's for LSW/LCSW for additional $10; forms for foster family DCFS self-submission training credits available; no child care provided. Register by Tuesday, February 17, 2014; no refunds for participant cancellation; lunch: pre-order or bring your own. 

For more information about TBRI visit www.child.tcu.edu.

For workshop questions contact Pam Shepard, LCSW at pams@holtsunnyridge.org or call (630) 754-4522.

Webinar: Expert Advice on Attachment

 

Webinar: Expert Advice on Your Top 5 Attachment Concerns 

 

 

February 25, 2014 

 7:00 PM Central

 Q&A: 8:00 PM 

 

  

Attachment is a process that can take time. Adoption often poses challenges to that process, leaving parents with concerns and questions.

 

If you're concerned about your child's attachment process with parents, siblings, or peers there are practical steps and ideas you can try at home right away. Or maybe you just want to know what's typical and what's adoption related.

 

Join Regina Kupecky as she discusses the Top 5 attachment concerns and what to do about them!

 

    Practical ideas for the top 5 concerns she hears from parents including bonding to siblings, parents and peers as well as what's typical and what's not

   

 Expert insights into attachment and attunement

   

 Advice on connecting with your child throughout their development

 

 Register Here!

Webinar: Building Bonds of Attachment

Building Bonds of Attachment: Practical, Expert Advice

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Register Now! Tuesday, March 12 7:00 PM Central Q&A: 8:00 PM REGISTER HERE Secure parent-child attachments are essential for children. Often, adoption can pose challenges to the attachment process. Circumstances prior to adoption, either in utero, in an orphanage or in foster care, can create serious barriers to attachment. Join us for a webinar with Deborah Gray, an adoption therapist specializing in attachment, grief and trauma issues in children. Deborah will provide practical steps that move parents toward secure attachments with their child. Recognize behaviors that are common in adopted children who have experienced trauma Learn bonding activities that result in healthy relationships in the short term and throughout childhood Maintain relationships with children already in the home Submit your questions for Deborah Gray HERE or by tweeting them to @adoptiontweet using #ALPAttach13

Confessions of an Adoptive Parent with Attachment Issues

The following is taken from a post by Dawn Greer Choate (7/31/2007).  It addresses a common, but rarely talked about issue in the adoption community, the issue of what happens when we as parents are not attaching to our newly adopted child.  If you have been in this place, you know the pain and shame it can bring.  Here is a beautifully candid article that addresses the issue.  My prayer is that it opens a dialogue in the adoption community and brings hope & healing to those who are suffering.

Maybe I should have left my name off this one. Perhaps I could have been one of the anonymous writers who change their name to protect their identity. I will probably open my inbox to find I’ve been booted off a Yahoo adoption group or two after this confession. I’m sure I won’t be invited to the next LifeBook creation group or called up by the Discovery Channel to cover my next adoption. But, I’m not really confessing this to win any popularity contests anyway. The truth is, I am quite certain that what I am about to confess is a dark, deeply held secret of other adoptive parents out there and I am just the one with the big enough mouth to say it. Okay, here I go….

I have attachment issues. Yes, me. Not my daughter (our second adoption), although she has her own set of attachment issues, too. But I am talking about me. After a year and a half, my heart still struggles to latch on firmly, to feel free and open with her, to feel the wonderful bonded feeling of being completely attached in heart and spirit to another person. I still catch myself looking blankly at her, wondering if I even know her yet. I am still more easily frustrated by her, less patient, slower to forgive and recover after she misbehaves. I still have to fight feelings of wanting to pay more attention to the children with whom it is “easier” to feel close. And sometimes I am the one who can go without contact with her and not feel like I even miss her absence........

 

To read the full article, please click on the following link:

http://www.rainbowkids.com/ExpertArticleDetails.aspx?id=171&title=Confessions of an Adoptive Parent with Attachment Issues

Attachment & Trauma Workshop

Sunny Ridge Family Center presents: Attachment and Trauma 101: A one-day Workshop - Six (6) CEUs offered for Social Workers ( IDFPR # 159-001117)

Friday, November 18, 2011

9:00am to 4:00pm

Speaker: WILLIAM S. KAPLAN, MSW, LCSW.  Director, House Calls Counseling

Key Workshop Concepts:

* Teaches participants how trauma & neglect affects brain development as well as a child’s ability to connect and attach

* Introduces and explores therapeutic parenting; SPACE (Safety, Support, Structure, Supervision, Playfulness, Acceptance, Curiosity & Empathy)

* Identifies the manifestations of attachment and trauma dysregulation on children’s behavior, cognitive, affectivity, physical and spiritual/ moral functioning.

* Introduces participants to core concepts and practices of three treatment approaches which have demonstrated effectiveness for treating children and youth with Attachment and Trauma Dysregulation.

Who Should Attend: Social workers, educators, adoptive parents, clinicians.

Schedule:
8:30am Registration & Refreshments
9:00am to 12:00pm - Morning session

Lunch on your own

1:00pm to 4:00pm - Afternoon session

Registration Fee: $110
To register, click here:
http://billykaplan.eventbrite.com/?ref=ebtn

For more information, contact Sunnyridge Family Center at http://www.sunnyridge.org/. 

Monthly Pot-Luck Gathering

Please join us for our monthly Pot-Luck Gathering!

Sunday, April 17th 5:00 - 7:00 P.M. Willow Creek Community Church, So. Barrington Room F150A (West Wing, Lower Level, Promiseland Room)

Whether you are considering, just starting out or an experienced foster or adoptive parent, you are welcome to come and connect with others on the same journey. Our goal is to provide a place to learn and experience community together as we answer God's call to care for vulnerable children. Our guest speaker is Joyce Moffit who will talk about attachment issues in children. Learn about the different types of attachments and practical parenting solutions for promoting attachment with your adopted or foster child.

Joyce Moffitt is a Licensed Child Welfare Worker who has more than 25 years experience working with children and their families. She is a licensing/recruitment representative for Evangelical Child and Family Agency. She is also a Master Trainer for the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. In this capacity, she teaches a variety of adoption and foster care courses. Joyce received her degrees in psychology and sociology, and she has received training specific to working with children and families on issues related to the effects of childhood trauma, and attachment. Joyce has a passion for educating families of the needs of vulnerable children and helping them find the role God has for them in His greater plan.

Pot-luck dinner 5:00 - 5:45

Speaker 5:45 - 6:45

Connection Time 6:45 - 7:00

Child care is available after dinner if you r.s.v.p. to avoiceforhischildren@gmail.com with the number of children and their ages.

Please bring a dish to pass. Beverages will be provided.

We hope to see you there!