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Adoption and Foster Care Support Services

Provides empowerment to families to be spaces where caregivers and children can heal. Provides support, education, and inspiration to adoptive and foster families with opportunities to connect with other foster and adoptive families through monthly gatherings and classes including: Monthly Family Gatherings: Through a combination of trauma-informed education, small group sharing, and food that you don't have to make, the gatherings exist to remind you that you are not alone and healing is possible. Making Sense of Your Worth: An 8-week program that helps adults overcome their own painful pasts so they can be free to be the caregiver they desire to be. Through a series of group sessions, you'll make space for self-reflection, unpack how your past affects your present, and ultimately rebuild a life of positive worth. Parenting for Positive Self Worth: An 8-week program focusing on learning a variety of parenting strategies designed to help adults parent their children in a way that promotes healing from exposure to trauma. In addition, parenting strategies are designed to help parents establish a positive self-worth in their children. Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI): A training designed to help caregivers see and meet the needs of children and youth from hard places. This model is based on three sets of interacting principles: connecting, empowering, and correction. This course moves from theory to practical application.

Location

7416 S. Valencia Drive, Sioux Falls, SD 57108

Hours

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Eligibility

Adoptive and foster care families.

Agency info

Gathering Well, The

Provides support, education, and inspiration to adoptive and foster families.