Hope & Healing JAX Board of Directors

Dear Hope Partner,

At Hope & Healing JAX, everything we do flows from two convictions:

Every child is precious. Every child should feel precious, loved, and safe.

These are not aspirations. They are the standard we hold — in every training, every partnership, every interaction.

Through Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) and Positive Discipline, we equip the adults in children’s lives with the understanding, strategies, and practice they need to promote healing and build resilience. We believe that strengthening families and communities is how we strengthen children — and that every one of us has a role to play.

When children act out, we don’t just see troubling behavior. We see a life story asking to be understood.

When parents struggle, we don’t ask — “What’s wrong with you?” We ask — “What happened in your story?”

That shift changes everything.

Children send behavioral SOS signals — communicating in the only way they know how:

See me. Hear me. Pay attention to me. Help me navigate this.

Our job is to answer that signal — by coming alongside families with humility, warmth, and practical tools that actually work.

A strength-based approach matters deeply here. But we believe something even more powerful drives lasting change:

Hope.

Not just positive thinking — but a genuine, grounded belief that the story isn’t finished. That strengths forged in adversity are real. That parents are more resourceful than their hardest moments suggest.

We partner with parents to see themselves that way — and to see their children the way their children deserve to be seen.

We meet people where they are. With all their strengths, wounds, and unresolved complexity.

Because we know that one caring adult can change the life trajectory of a child.

See the child. See the need. Meet the need.

Be the one.

 In gratitude for your partnership,

Kirsten Freitag Murray
President & CEO
Hope & Healing JAX, Inc.