Organizations

CURRICULUM AND CONFERENCES

Since 2008, Finally Home has been equipping foster, adoptive and kinship families to build healthy homes where kids can heal.

Churches and agencies, like yours, do incredible work in the recruitment of caregivers for fostering, adoption, and kinship. Finally Home can come alongside you to support those in your community called to this journey. We support caregivers in building healthy homes where children can thrive.

Children and Youth Programs

SuperHero Academy

SuperHeroes Bounce Back curriculum contains eight sessions with lessons, discussion starters, activities, supply lists, and comprehensive schedules for preschool through fifth graders. It is a great resource to creatively teach kids about character. Use this flexible curriculum in family events, Sunday school classes, summer camps, VBS, and more.

Solid Rock Students: Kindness is Cool

Solid Rock is a five-session discussion guide containining lessons, discussion starters, activities, and games to teach teens about kindness and communication. Use this flexible curriculum in family events, Sunday school classes, summer camps, youth groups, home enrichment time, and more.

Parent and Caregiver Curriculum

Survival Skills for Healthy Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families is focused on the unique needs of this special group. Taking from the best of social science, and psychological research, we teach skills and patterns that consistently show up in healthy families.

Topics include Map for Healthy Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families, Adults in Healthy Families, Solving Problems, Different Worlds, One Family, Parents as Leaders, Parents as Models, Change in Healthy Families, and Preparing Children for Life. Curriculum is delivered through a variety of programs and offerings including virtual trainings, in person conferences, and video based small group toolkits for leaders.

Our programs are recognized by most human services departments for foster, adoptive, and kinship parent continuing education units and certification.

Survival Skills for Healthy Christian Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families is a highly interactive curriculum that provides a framework based on a biblical worldview and Scripture to strengthen Christian families and provide them with skills and practice for living what they believe. The curriculum is flexible and is arranged so that instructors can adapt the full series, individual sessions, or a combination of sessions to specific groups and situations as needed.

Live Family Events

At our Family Strengthening Conferences, trained instructors present a research-based curriculum to the adults, which qualifies for parent continuing education units (CEU’s). While adults receive their training, children and youth attend therapy-informed SuperHero Academy and Solid Rock Students programs. Due to the diversity of programs, participants can attend as a whole family, removing the need to find specialized childcare.

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Organizations We Support

Churches

We train churches to provide effective and relevant support for foster, adoptive, and kinship families. We train and certify instructors to present our research-based curriculum, Survival Skills for Christian Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families,” which qualifies for parent continuing education units (CEUs). Some of the topics include, but are not limited to, Adults in Healthy Families, Solving Problems, Raising Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma, Parents as Leaders and Models, and Preparing Children for Life. In addition, we train churches on our whole family conference delivery model that includes therapy-informed SuperHero Academy and Solid Rock Student programs. And provide access to new resources being continually developed, including our small group series’ that can be accessed online through our learning management system.

Agencies

We provide evidence-based curriculum and resources that increase your capacity to support the families with whom you work. We train and certify instructors to present our research-based curriculum, “Survival Skills for Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families,” which qualifies for parent continuing education units (CEUs). Some of the topics include but are not limited to: Adults in Healthy Families, Solving Problems, Raising Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma, Parents as Leaders and Models, and Preparing Children for Life. In addition, we train church leaders on our whole family conference delivery model that includes therapy-informed SuperHero Academy and Solid Rock Student programs. And provide access to new resources being continually developed, including our small group series’ that can be accessed online through our learning management system.

Schools

We provide Emotions Toolkits for home, classrooms, and school counseling offices. We also offer training for teachers, caregivers, and school counselors on how to utilize our Emotions Toolkit, along with other tips for de-escalating young people and equipping them to manage their strong emotions. In addition, we provide in person or virtual parenting classes and small group series as well as supplemental resources for children and youth that include activity books, handbooks, and story books.

Testimonials

Finally Home has given us new perspectives on tough parenting subjects and great skills to work towards success.

– Carla, Finally Home Family Member

Any group that helps families and kids be more successful in their relationships is the kind of group I want to work with. Finally Home is an amazing organization that provides fun for kids and support for families.

– Jeff, Finally Home Volunteer

Finally Home provides wonderful, knowledgeable resources and makes the entire family feel valued.

– Wendy, Finally Home Family Member

We have been so incredibly blessed by every Finally Home conference we’ve attended! We always leave encouraged, reminded that we’re not alone, with happy kids that are overflowing with happiness about their day!

– Grace, Finally Home Family Member

OUR MISSION

Building Healthy Families

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

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Featured Products

Family Wellness Instructor Training

$750.00

Map for Healthy Families: 5 Week Small Group Series (With short videos and discussion guides)

$50.00

1 Day Family Strengthening Event Leadership Training

$200/person. Discount provided for 4 or more.

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EVENTS

Family Strengthening Conferences

At our Family Strengthening Conferences, trained instructors present a research-based curriculum to the parents that qualifies for parent continuing education units (CEU’s).

While adults receive their training, children and youth attend SuperHero Academy and Finally Home Solid Rock Students Programs. Due to the diversity of programs, participants can attend as a whole family, removing the need to find specialized childcare.

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FAQs

What size church is the Finally Home Family Strengthening Conference suited for?

Any size! Our program is scalable. You decide how many families you’ll serve at your events based on your budget and volunteer capacity.

Does Finally Home’s content/classes qualify for CEUs?

In every county where our program is currently used, private and government agencies accept it for foster and adoptive family continuing education credit. It’s up to you to research the local requirements that will allow your families to receive this benefit. Finally Home will provide research and curriculum information upon request.

Is the curriculum faith-based?

Finally Home is a national faith-based non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We are Christians and approach our services from a Biblically-based perspective. However, Survival Skills for Healthy Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families are available in both secular and Christian options. All principles taught are confirmed by the Bible and affirmed by research.

Do you provide scholarships?

Contact us if the cost for any of our trainings or resources are a prohibiting factor.