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Dear Friends,
When a child or youth join 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 and none of us can 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
Get to know our programs
Finally Home provides trauma-informed, research-based programming that meets families, caregivers, children, and youth wherever they are on their healing journey. These programs strengthen the foundation 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 Christian
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
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
Adults Relationships in 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
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. Every session includes engaging SuperHero-themed crafts, activities, music, and small groups 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 students in 6th - 12th grades
Solid Rock Students is a three-part program model. 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.
New in 2025: Finally Home has three digital workbooks for use at home, in one on one mentoring, or youth groups.
Three more coming in 2026.
Different ways to utilize our programs
Finally Home provides a variety of in-person and interactive online virtual courses and experiences. Each option is built on the same research-based curriculum developed by Finally Home. These courses are designed to equip parents and caregivers to build healthy homes where kids can heal and everyone thrives.
Learn more about the options:
Resilient Roots >
Whole Family In Person Conferences >
CEU Information | Discounts for Families >
Lead a Workshop For Your Community > Upcoming Workshops > Family Support Program >
Resilient Roots
This membership is available monthly or annually and includes our core courses with additional access to our team and resources for children and youth.
Created specifically for the unique challenges that foster, kinship, and adoptive families face, Resilient Roots includes a personal hotline and virtual deep dives to help parents and caregivers when they need it most.
Throughout the year you’ll have:
• On-demand access to Map for Healthy Families, Parents as Leaders and Parents as Models which are three of the four parts of our research-based program, Survival Skills for Healthy Foster, Adoptive and Kinship Families.
• 4 deep dives into our programs, in the form of 4-week guided courses via email by Finally Home co-founder Kristin Orphan. Think of these 4-week deep dives as mini Family Strengthening Conferences.
• 50% off our resources in the Finally Home store.
• Courage Corner: words of encouragement for your teens.
Videos from young adults who were foster, adoptive, and/or kinship teens themselves. These short videos can be shared with the youth in your household to inspire and encourage.
• Resilient Roots Hotline with direct access to the Finally Home team. Send a video, audio, or text message and we’ll respond within 48 business hours.
• Ability to download digital versions of our workbooks and guides. This includes workbooks for SuperHero Academy, Solid Rock Students, and parent guides. Physical copies can also be ordered with your discount through the store.
Learn More
“Finally Home has given us new perspectives on tough parenting subjects and great skills to work towards success.”
-Carla, Finally Home Family Member
“Finally Home provides wonderful, knowledgeable resources and makes the entire family feel valued.”
-Wendy, Finally Home Family Member
Online Resources | Digital Workbooks
Access materials as you need them that you can use in your household.
More workbooks will be added throughout the year. Current offerings include:
• The “Be Somebody and Belong” Workbook for Teens. Filled with exercises and prompts, this workbook helps teens understand who they are. They will have a better understanding of how to be themselves as well as be a supportive and engaged member of the family.
• “Building Strong Connections: A Guide for Healthy Relationships” Workbook for Teens. This workbook guides teens through the tenants of a healthy relationship. It guides them through building connections, creating boundaries, and more.
• SuperHero Academy Coloring Book and Activity Guide. These books help introduce Finally Home’s Superhero’s and start to understand the meaning of their emotions.
Whole Family In-Person Conferences
Finally Home created family strengthening conferences to create inperson experiences that build community amongst foster, kinship, and adoptive families. Contact us if your church would like to host a conference.
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 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.
Family Support Program
Many families feel isolated when they are raising children and youth who have experienced trauma. It can be heart breaking when you are not sure where to turn for help. Finally Home’s Family Support team provides resources and support to foster, adoptive, and kinship families.
Helpful resources range from educational tool to specialized therapy depending on the season and unique needs of the family. Helpful programs and specialized therapy can expensive and hard to identify.
Why is This Program So Important?
Mental health diagnoses are more are common in foster/adopt/ kinship households. It can be very difficult in the middle of a crisis, or challenging trauma-based behavior to reach out for help, or even to know where to start. We want to make this simple: start with us!
We want to be a support system for families so they can support their child during these critical times. We can do the background work of setting up needed resources.
These difficult situations can also be a heavy weight on the caregivers’ mental health and relationships. Our full family-systems approach allows us to support any, and all members of a family with full wrap-around support.
Here is how the process works
Step 1
It all starts with a simple phone call or email to Finally Home – or a completed “Family Support Interest” Form (see link below).
Step 2
Families meet with a member of our Family Support Team to share about what’s going on in their family and what support they might need. As our team learns more about the family’s story, it allows us to research our network of partners and providers to see who would be a helpful resource for the family. At times, we may find it helpful to call providers on behalf of the family, which saves the family from having to relive the trauma over and over again through the re-telling of their story.
Step 3
Our Family Support Team presents a plan of ideas to the families that could include anything from free access to our online learning platform(Resilient Roots), assistance with researching mental health care providers, connecting them to other agencies in the area, and even providing our option for financial support as needed. We work diligently to create an individualized plan with full wraparound support for any, or all members of the family.
Step 4
Families continue to work side-by-side with our team to work their plan. This includes regular phone calls, family support emails, and more. No two plans are the same, just like no two families are the same. Additionally, we live out our belief in a family-systems approach and are able to offer support for any member of the family.
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, adoptive, and kinship 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.
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, more than 2,500 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.
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.”
