Finally Home Programs Guide

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Dear Friends,

When a child or teen joins a family through foster, kinship, or adoption, the complex path to healing begins. This is when a family needs a trusted gathering place to find ongoing education, friendship, and practical help. The journey of becoming a family in this special way is full of twists and turns.  It is not for the faint of heart, yet even the strongest among us cannot do it alone. We all need help.

In this magazine you will find multiple ways to connect with Finally Home. Whether through an online training, an in-person conference, or take-home resource, we pray you will discover that you are not alone on this journey!

If you are an agency or ministry leader, you can help families endure through the hard times and celebrate in the good times. Health and success are contagious in a community based on faith in God, hope, common experiences, and the values of learning and growing. Let us equip you to serve the families in your sphere of influence. There is no greater privilege than to say to a child who has been uprooted time and time again, “You’re finally home.”

Gratefully, Kristin Orphan, MS, CFLE Co-Founder/Creative Director

Get to know our programs

Finally Home provides research-based programming that meets families, caregivers, children, and youth wherever they are on their healing journey. These programs strengthen the foundations for healthy homes where all members thrive.

Learn more about our signature programs:

Survival Skills for Healthy Families >

SuperHero Academy >

Solid Rock Students >

Survival Skills for Healthy Families

Geared towards caregivers, this program includes four courses that focus on a specific strategy for building a healthy family.

“Finally Home has consistently given me tools and support to lead my family through difficult times and has given me hope to keep moving forward.”

-Rhonda, Finally Home Foster-Adoptive Parents

Map for Healthy Families

This foundational course sets the path to create a healthy home. The map will help you put in motion actions that will support you as the caregiver(s) and the children in your home. Lessons include:

• The Two Jobs of Every Person

• Three Patterns

• Three Skills

• Relationship Styles

• BONUS: Taking Care of Yourself

Parents as Leaders in Healthy Families

All families have their own ways of doing things, or “rules,” that define how family members work together. These informal rules explain how people talk to each other, how they get along, and who does what in a family. The rules are often passed down from one generation to another. Sometimes family members say these rules to each other, and sometimes they do not. But who defines the rules of how the family will live together? Research shows that in a healthy family, the adults are in charge. The first job of parents is how to be healthy leaders. Lessons include:

• Making Rules Part 1

• Making Rules Part 2

• Stick Together

• Stay in Charge

Adults and Healthy Families

Here we look at two jobs that help to strengthen marriage relationships: “Be a Team” and “Build Your Team.” You are a team when you commit to each other and to your relationship and when you find ways to deepen intimacy and stay connected. You build your team when you know what you want and say what you want to give yourselves the best chance of getting what you (both) want. Lessons include:

• Be a Team: Commit

• Be a Team: Connect

• Build Your Team: Know What You Want and Say What You Want

• Build Your Team: Get What You Want

Parents as Models in Healthy Families

This course focuses on some of the fun parts of parenting: spending time with your kids, playing, encouraging, and talking together. Parents, like it or not, you are a role model for your children. Children learn by copying what they see other people do, and they are most influenced by the people who spend the most time with them. They learn about themselves and how to treat others through the way they are treated by the adults who raise them. Lessons include:

• Plan Time With Your Children

• Encourage Your Child

• Listen to Your Child

• Talk Together With Your Child

SuperHero Academy

Serving Infants through 5th Grade

SuperHeroes Bounce Back is an interactive strengths-based program that teaches children the traits of resiliency.  Each session focuses on one of Finally Home’s adorable SuperHero characters and their associated resiliency trait.  Trained volunteers guide children through engaging SuperHero-themed crafts, activities, music, and small group discussions.

“You should see our three kids hugging the SuperHero pillows they made at the last Finally Home event! They take them everywhere.”

-Grace and Josiah, Finally Home Foster-Adoptive Parents

Solid Rock Students

Serving middle school and high school students

Solid Rock Students is a three-part program. At each event, students participate in a service project, life skills lesson, and fun outing. Whether the focus is kindness, communication, mental health, or self-esteem, students play games and have themed small group discussions on topics that encourage strong character and resilience.  Most service projects give students an immediate application for what they have just learned. Outings include experiences like rock climbing, sports games, equine assisted therapy, ropes courses, hikes, cooking classes, and more.

Different ways to utilize our programs

Finally Home provides a variety of in-person, 4-week virtual live courses, and on-demand video-based courses. Each option is built on the same research-based curriculum developed by Finally Home. These courses are geared towards the caregivers in building a healthy home where kids can heal and families can thrive.

Learn more about the options:

Online >

Whole Family In Person Conferences >

CEU Information | Discounts for Families >

Lead a Workshop For Your Community >

Upcoming Workshops >

4-Week Virtual Live Courses

Virtual live courses take place multiple times per year and rotate through the four courses inside Survival Skills for Healthy Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families

Each 4-week session will cover one course:

• Map for Healthy Families

• Parents as Leaders in Healthy Families

• Parents as Models in Healthy Families

• Adult Relationships in Healthy Families

Sessions include:

• Four instructional videos with research-based strategies and tools

• Guided workbook to help you take action

• Four - hour live sessions to discuss the strategies you learn each week.

Each live session is led by a trained member of the Finally Home team.

After the completion of each 4-week series you’ll have lifetime access to rewatch the training videos as needed.

On-Demand Video Based Courses

On-demand courses are available as needed when you need them. Each course includes eight short videos with research-based strategies and tools for you to watch on your own schedule. You’ll also receive handouts to help you take action.

On-demand courses include:

• Map for Healthy Families

• Parents as Leaders in Healthy Families

• Parents as Models in Healthy Families

• Adult Relationships in Healthy Families

On-demand courses will begin launching at the end of 2023. Visit our website for the most up to date information.

Learn More

Whole Family In-Person Conferences

Finally Home created family strengthening conferences to create in-person experiences that build community amongst foster, kinship, and adoptive families. Currently these events take place in Northern Colorado each Fall. These events include individualized programming for caregivers, youth, and children and include:

• Caregivers deep dive into one of our Survival Skills for Healthy Families courses.

• Youth meet together as part of our Solid Rock Students program. They also participate in a short service project and a fun field trip.

• Children will join our SuperHero Academy and learn from one of our SuperHeros. They will participate in fun activities that are age appropriate while helping them learn a life skill in the process.

CEU Information | Discounts for Families

All Finally Home training qualifies for certified parenting education/ licensing credits. Certificates are provided at the end of each series. Participants are responsible for securing course approval by the qualifying agency prior to registration. Finally Home can provide curriculum information upon request.

It is our mission to support families regardless of ability to pay. Discounts are available to foster, kinship, and adoptive families for all of our programs, products, and events. Complete our quick and easy form, and we will email you the appropriate coupon codes.

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“Finally Home is by far my favorite way to complete training hours. Our family has been uniquely equipped for our specific kids through the training provided by Finally Home, and we appreciate these events more than you could know!”

-Ryan and Amanda, Finally Home Foster-Adoptive Parents

Lead a Workshop For Your Community

Interested in facilitating Finally Home’s family strengthening training at your church, school, or agency? We offer Leader Guides for a variety of needs including Grandparent-Led Families, Foster and Adoptive Families, Christian Families, and Biological Families. We would love to chat with you about our options.

Finally Home has already trained several church and agency leaders to provide trainings as needed for their local communities.

Upcoming Workshops

Finally Home is constantly adding more in-person and virtual events. Visit our events page to see all of our upcoming events.

Upcoming Events

Need Additional Support?

Sometimes there are situations that require more support than we can offer through our courses and programs. Sometimes the needs of individuals in the family require a professional therapist or psychiatrist.

We

Get it:

• Someone in your home needs support, but therapy costs are high.

• Therapy isn’t a luxury for you…it’s a need!

• Finding the right therapist is tricky and often who you need isn’t in your health insurance network.

Finally Home’s Revive and Thrive Family Support Initiative

All members of foster, adoptive, and kinship households are eligible to apply for support through Finally Home’s Revive and Thrive Family Support initiative…including YOU, the Caregiver.

Learn More About How We Can Support You

About Finally Home

Finally Home is a Christian non-profit whose mission since 2008 is to equip foster, adoptive, and kinship families to build healthy homes where kids can heal. Since inception, almost 1,500 families have benefited from our programs and products, which are designed to give parents the tools they need to help their kids and family thrive. Whether through an encouraging children’s story book, a therapeutic toolkit, or an empowering training, Finally Home’s resources reinforce time-tested skills and characteristics found in healthy families.

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Meet Our Founders

“We started Finally Home because of our love for Jesus Christ and our desire to strengthen families so that kids don’t have to keep moving from home to home. We dream of healthy, loving, and safe homes for all kids who need a temporary safe haven or a forever family.”

– Mark and Kristin Orphan