Posted on Mar 19, 2017

Heartland Christian College will be a local simulcast site host for the Empowered to Connect Conference April 7-8, 2017.

To be held at the HCC Legacy Building: 500 New Creation Road, Newark, MO 63458. Registration begins at 8:30am; the full simulcast schedule is shown below.

Registration Fee is just $10 (includes workbook). To register, phone 660-284-4800 or click here for online registration.

Empowered To Connect, together with Show Hope and The Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development at TCU, offer the Empowered To Connect Conferencedesigned to help adoptive and foster parents, ministry leaders and professionals better understand how to connect with “children from hard places” in order to help them heal and become all that God desires for them to be.

The Conference features practical teaching in a safe and supportive community as we work to equip families, churches, and professionals to better serve children impacted by adoption and foster care. It features Trust-Based Relational InterventionⓇ (TBRI) methods developed by Dr. Karyn Purvis and Dr. David Cross from the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development, to help bring attachment and connection in families. The content is ideal for adoptive and foster parents, those considering adoption or foster care, and those who are serving and supporting others, including social workers, agency professionals, church staff and ministry leaders, counselors, and therapists.

The conference features David Cross, Mandy Howard, Daren Jones, Dan and Terri Coley, Ryan and Kayla North, Casey Call, and Cindy Lee and is ideal for adoptive and foster parents, those considering adoption or foster care and those who are serving and supporting others, including social workers, agency professionals, church staff and ministry leaders, counselors, therapists and others.

More information about this conference is available here.

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SCHEDULE

Beverages provided during breaks; lunch not provided, but the Solid Rock Cafe is available on campus for lunch. Click here for a menu.