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.
SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook Groups
Heart & Home / The Closet Facebook Page
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.
EDUCATION
Classes offered by Saddleback Community College, Foster and Kinship Care Education
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:
Saddleback Foster & Kinship Care Education
MEDIA
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
Let Us Rise by Joshua Weigel
3-minute video
Be the Light by Joshua Weigel
2-minute video
Removed Part 1
12-minute video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lOeQUwdAjE0
Removed Part 2
22-minute video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I1fGmEa6WnY
Removed Part 3
22-minute video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fegRjSgRYXk
FILMS
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