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RESOURCES

There are many resources in our community to support you as you care for children from hard places. We urge you to take advantage of them, so you can continue the hard work you are doing. 

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SOCIAL MEDIA

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Facebook Groups​

Heart & Home / The Closet Facebook Page

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Safe, Precious and Heard is a community of foster, adoptive and kinship families.  It embraces a biblical world-view and the Trust Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) parenting model as the foundation for hope and healing. To join this private group, email maxm@saddleback.com.

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EDUCATION

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Classes offered by Saddleback Community College, Foster and Kinship Care Education

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From classes on how to mentor teens, to attachment and connection, to trust-based relational intervention, Saddleback offers a range of courses to support foster and adoptive parents. Click here to view current classes:

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Saddleback Foster & Kinship Care Education

https://www.saddleback.edu/hs/fkce

MEDIA

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The Advocates Mini-Series

An orphan care travel show reclaiming a lost generation and uncovering the truth about international orphan care.

https://www.thearchibaldproject.com/show

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Let Us Rise by Joshua Weigel

3-minute video

https://vimeo.com/388354582

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Be the Light by Joshua Weigel

2-minute video

https://vimeo.com/41520

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Removed Part 1 

12-minute video 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lOeQUwdAjE0

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Removed Part 2

22-minute video 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I1fGmEa6WnY

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Removed Part 3

22-minute video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fegRjSgRYXk

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FILMS

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HBO ‘Foster’ Documentary (This can be viewed by getting a free trial period with HBO)

1 hour 53 minutes

https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/foster

 

Instant Family

1 hour 58 minute movie starring Mark Wahlberg

https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Family-Mark-Wahlberg/dp/B07KFQCLGP/

 

Playing with Fire

1 hour 35 minute movie

https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Fire-John-Cena/dp/B07ZZFKGCN/

 

Antwone Fisher 

2-hour movie starring Denzel Washington. 

https://www.amazon.com/Antwone-Fisher-Denzel-Washington/dp/B000JPKKRO/

 

I Can Only Imagine

1 hour 50 minutes. 

https://www.amazon.com/Can-Only-Imagine-Michael-Finley/dp/B07D6V9TCY

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