Empowered to Connect Conference

February 17-18, 2012 - Dallas, TX - Irving Bible Church

The Empowered To Connect Conference, sponsored by Show Hope, is a two-day conference designed 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 God desires for them to be.

Led by Dr. Karyn Purvis (Director of the TCU Institute of Child Development) together with Michael & Amy Monroe (Leaders of Tapestry Adoption & Foster Care Ministry), this conference 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 involved in adoption and foster care ministries or services.

From Michael Monroe, co-founder of the Tapestry Ministry: "The Empowered To Connect Conference will feature the insights, experience and wisdom of Dr. Karyn Purvis. Dr. Purvis is the Director of the TCU Institute of Child Development and co-author of the best-selling adoption book, The Connected Child. For more than a decade, she and her colleagues have been developing a more complete understanding of the unique challenges that adopted, foster and orphaned children face, as well as a wide array of tools and strategies to help parents and caregivers form lasting and healing connections with their children.

Over the years the families involved in Tapestry have benefited greatly from Dr. Purvis. The Empowered To Connect Conference provides us with a great way to share this same help and hope with you so that the families in your church and community can benefit as well. During the conference, Dr. Purvis will offer helpful presentations on a wide range of topics that are highly relevant to all adoptive and foster families. In addition, Amy and I will share how our ministry has incorporated these principles and resources into the way we educate, support and equip parents. And throughout the conference we will highlight the biblical principles that serve as the foundation for the approach and interventions that Dr. Purvis teaches."