The Restore Network

Life After Placement: Caring for the Foster Family in Your Life

In this episode, we talk about life after placement for those of you who are supporting a foster family in your life. This episode is for extended family, friends, & church communities who are watching someone in your life welcome a child through foster care and wondering how you can help! How can you offer your prayers, tangible supports, understanding & encouragement to lift up a family as they do the hard work God has called them to and how do you respond and stay in the game with them when it gets hard (because it will)! 
 
Episode references:
How Your Church Can Support Foster Families: https://www.canva.com/design/DAF4MfFb0X0/pRSUwAaofCDSYM_0TvG-Gw/view?utm_content=DAF4MfFb0X0&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=viewer
Trauma-Informed Children's Ministry Book: https://www.amazon.com/Trauma-Informed-Childrens-Ministry-Practical-Reaching/dp/1666715743

Life After Placement: For Foster Families

In this episode, we talk about life after placement. When you welcome a child into your home through foster care, you don’t just have a new child but a whole new family. What needs to happen in those first few months so you’ll have the margin to meet your family’s needs? What does your new child need? We’ll talk about the need to simplify and slow life down, invite predictability, cocoon and build trust, study and observe your new child, and explore your own motivations and expectations about foster care, which at this point will likely need adjusting!
 
Episode references: 
https://therestorenetwork.org/life-after-placement-2/

Why Traditional Parenting Strategies Might Not Be Our Best Tools

In this episode we take a look at traditional parenting strategies and why they may not be the best tools in our toolbox for raising kids with histories of relational and complex developmental trauma (spanking, time-outs, lectures, consequences/punishments, and reward charts covered!).
 
If you are a foster/adoptive parent, a volunteer who supports our families, a church partner, or a child welfare worker, please join us in this new series of conversations created specifically for you and your role in changing the culture of foster care in Illinois.   
 
Episode References:
https://therestorenetwork.org/why-traditional-parenting-might-not-work/

What is Trauma Informed Care?

In this first episode of a new series of conversations in 2025 by our Director of Trauma Informed Care, we answer the question, "What is trauma informed care?" and "Why does it matter?" The episode covers the 7 risk factors (in utero exposure, birth trauma, early hospitalizations, neglect, abuse, other trauma, and foster care system impacts) and how complex developmental trauma impacts the 5 B's (brain, body, biology, behaviors & beliefs).
If you are a foster/adoptive parent, a volunteer who supports our families, a church partner, or a child welfare worker, please join us in this new series of conversations created specifically for you and your role in changing the culture of foster care in Illinois.   
 
Episode references:
The Connected Child book by Dr. Karyn Purvis: https://www.amazon.com/Connected-Child-healing-adoptive-family/dp/0071475001 
Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development: child.tcu.edu
TBRI Animate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWScSJKjn1A 
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing: www.amazon.com › What-Happened-You-Understanding
 

Audio Recording: Say it with Scripts Resource Booklet

This resource is the audio recording for our Say it with Scripts print resource that you can find here: https://https://therestorenetwork.org/say-it-with-scripts/
 
The Restore Network exists to change the culture of foster care and equip God's people to meet the needs of vulnerable children and youth. The children we serve have experienced complex developmental trauma and their experiences have changed their brains, bodies, beliefs, and behaviors. These resources are created to equip caregivers, volunteers, child welfare professionals, and our church partners to navigate the joys and complexities of caring for these vulnerable children. The resources we offer are based on the principles of Trust Based Relational Intervention created by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University as well as other areas of attachment theory and relational neuroscience which we believe line up with how God created our brain and bodies for relationship and the design plan for human flourishing.

Audio Recording: Navigating Visit Days Resource Booklet

This resource is the audio recording for our Navigating Visit Days print resource that you can find here: https://therestorenetwork.org/visit-days/
The Restore Network exists to change the culture of foster care and equip God's people to meet the needs of vulnerable children and youth. The children we serve have experienced complex developmental trauma and their experiences have changed their brains, bodies, beliefs, and behaviors. These resources are created to equip caregivers, volunteers, child welfare professionals, and our church partners to navigate the joys and complexities of caring for these vulnerable children. The resources we offer are based on the principles of Trust Based Relational Intervention created by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University as well as other areas of attachment theory and relational neuroscience which we believe line up with how God created our brain and bodies for relationship and the design plan for human flourishing.

Audio Recording: Choices & Compromises Resource Booklet

This resource is the audio recording for our Choices & Compromises print resource that you can find here: https://therestorenetwork.org/choices-compromises/ 
 
The Restore Network exists to change the culture of foster care and equip God's people to meet the needs of vulnerable children and youth. The children we serve have experienced complex developmental trauma and their experiences have changed their brains, bodies, beliefs, and behaviors. These resources are created to equip caregivers, volunteers, child welfare professionals, and our church partners to navigate the joys and complexities of caring for these vulnerable children. The resources we offer are based on the principles of Trust Based Relational Intervention created by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University as well as other areas of attachment theory and relational neuroscience which we believe line up with how God created our brain and bodies for relationship and the design plan for human flourishing.

Audio Recording: Supporting Our Children After a New Placement Resource Booklet

This resource is the audio recording for our Supporting Our Children After a New Placement print resource that you can find here: https://therestorenetwork.org/supporting-our-children-after-a-new-placement/ 
 
The Restore Network exists to change the culture of foster care and equip God's people to meet the needs of vulnerable children and youth. The children we serve have experienced complex developmental trauma and their experiences have changed their brains, bodies, beliefs, and behaviors. These resources are created to equip caregivers, volunteers, child welfare professionals, and our church partners to navigate the joys and complexities of caring for these vulnerable children. The resources we offer are based on the principles of Trust Based Relational Intervention created by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University as well as other areas of attachment theory and relational neuroscience which we believe line up with how God created our brain and bodies for relationship and the design plan for human flourishing.

Audio Recording: Food Insecurities Resource Booklet

This resource is the audio recording for our Food Insecurities print resource that you can find here: https://therestorenetwork.org/food-insecurities/
 
The Restore Network exists to change the culture of foster care and equip God's people to meet the needs of vulnerable children and youth. The children we serve have experienced complex developmental trauma and their experiences have changed their brains, bodies, beliefs, and behaviors. These resources are created to equip caregivers, volunteers, child welfare professionals, and our church partners to navigate the joys and complexities of caring for these vulnerable children. The resources we offer are based on the principles of Trust Based Relational Intervention created by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University as well as other areas of attachment theory and relational neuroscience which we believe line up with how God created our brain and bodies for relationship and the design plan for human flourishing.

Audio Recording: Sleep Struggles Resource Booklet

This resource is the audio recording for our Sleep Struggles print resource that you can find here:  https://therestorenetwork.org/sleep-tips/
The Restore Network exists to change the culture of foster care and equip God's people to meet the needs of vulnerable children and youth. The children we serve have experienced complex developmental trauma and their experiences have changed their brains, bodies, beliefs, and behaviors. These resources are created to equip caregivers, volunteers, child welfare professionals, and our church partners to navigate the joys and complexities of caring for these vulnerable children. The resources we offer are based on the principles of Trust Based Relational Intervention created by the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at Texas Christian University as well as other areas of attachment theory and relational neuroscience which we believe line up with how God created our brain and bodies for relationship and the design plan for human flourishing.