Equipping Churches to Care Well: TBRI® Caregiver Training
Many churches are already responding generously to the needs of vulnerable children and families—opening homes, forming wrap-around teams, and walking alongside carers with prayer, presence, and practical support.
As this care grows, so does the opportunity to deepen our understanding and strengthen our capacity to love well. Learning together builds shared language, confidence, and connection, helping carers and communities feel supported and equipped for the journey.
Children need families. Families need community. And communities thrive when they are resourced to care with wisdom, compassion, and grace.
Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) offers a rich, practical framework that aligns closely with the heart of The Homeward Project—supporting sustainable, relational care for children, carers, and the communities around them.
What is TBRI®?
Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) is an attachment-based, trauma-informed approach developed to meet the complex needs of vulnerable children.
TBRI® is built on three core principles:
- Connecting Principles to meet attachment needs
- Empowering Principles to meet physical and sensory needs
- Correcting Principles to disarm fear-based behaviours
While TBRI® is based on years of attachment, sensory processing, and neuroscience research, the heartbeat of TBRI® is connection.
Who is this training for?
TBRI® Caregiver Training is suitable for:
- Foster, kinship, and permanent carers
- Wrap-around team members and support volunteers
- Kids and youth ministry leaders and volunteers
- Pastors and ministry leaders
- Church members walking alongside vulnerable children and families
You don’t need to be a carer to benefit—TBRI® equips anyone who wants to respond with wisdom, compassion, and confidence.
Why not host a TBRI® Training and extend an invitation to community organisations and other churches in your local community?
What you’ll gain
This training is ideal for those wanting more than awareness. Participants gain:
- Practical tools for everyday interactions
- Greater confidence responding to challenging behaviours
- A deeper understanding of what children’s behaviours communicate
- Shared language across teams and ministries
- Approaches that support connection without neglecting boundaries
Training options available
In-house training
Delivered for your church, organisation, or team in your own location.
Options include:
- TBRI® Caregiver Training: Introduction & Overview
- TBRI® Full Caregiver Training Package
Online training
Join an online cohort via a series of facilitated video sessions.
Available as:
- TBRI® Caregiver Training: Introduction & Overview
About the Facilitator
Leonie Quayle is a TBRI® Practitioner with nearly two decades of experience in ministry and not-for-profit leadership. She completed TBRI® Practitioner Training with the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development in 2023 and brings a deep understanding of church contexts, Out-of-Home Care, and trauma-informed practice.
Leonie is passionate about equipping churches to care well—for those they serve, for their carers, and for their teams.
Ready to explore whether TBRI® training is a good fit?
If you’d like to discuss training options for your church or team, or explore TBRI® further, submit an enquiry by clicking the button above, or email Leonie at leonie@homewardproject.org
