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Spiritual Formation Calendar Experience
Spiritual Formation Calendar Experience
The Spiritual Formation Calendar Experience is designed to help leaders of organizations, churches or networks to lead a team through biblically-rooted practices of spiritual formation. Each month’s content includes a discussion of a key idea or practice, an exploratory exercise and a reflection guide for groups and teams to process experiences together. It is a simple format that leaders and teams can … Read more
See all resource detailsWise Short-Term Missions: Principles and Practices to Benefit Vulnerable Children & Families
Wise Short-Term Missions: Principles and Practices to Benefit Vulnerable Children & Families
We participate in short-term missions because we want to positively impact the world around us. However, we can do more harm than good without a proper understanding of what is most effective. This is especially true when we seek to serve vulnerable children and families. This course is specifically designed for leaders in charge of … Read more
See all resource detailsThe Better Together Vision Starter Guide
The Better Together Vision Starter Guide
The Better Together vision strives to see every child in a loving family, embraced within a collaborative community. Moving towards a vision of Better Together will reflect the specific challenges and opportunities facing your community. But rallying people around a shared vision of Better Together for vulnerable children and families is a crucial first step. The vision can serve … Read more
See all resource detailsOrphaned & Vulnerable Children (OVC) Essentials On Demand
Orphaned & Vulnerable Children (OVC) Essentials On Demand
The OVC Essentials Course provides broadened and deepened knowledge of best practices and critical issues within ministry to vulnerable children and families. Alongside a stimulating community of learners, OVC Essentials supplies challenge where necessary and inspiration to continue in faithful service and learning. Non-profit staff and executives, foster and adoptive parents, interns, students and young … Read more
See all resource detailsMore Than Enough Essentials
More Than Enough Essentials
The words “not enough” are heard every day inside of our nation’s foster care system: Not enough resources. Not enough support. Not enough families. But it doesn’t have to be that way where you live. You can work with others in your community to provide more than enough for children and families before, during, and beyond foster … Read more
See all resource detailsThe Better Together Vision Overview
The Better Together Vision Overview
The Better Together vision is intended to unify a global movement of churches, organizations, agencies and advocates who are serving vulnerable children and families in their communities. As you gather local leaders of churches, NGOs and agencies in your communities, we encourage you to affirm this vision as part of your own – not to replace … Read more
See all resource detailsChurch Ministry Essentials
Church Ministry Essentials
Church Ministry Essentials is an immersive learning experience that will introduce you to the principles, practices and people you need to take your next best steps forward in foster care, adoption and family support ministry. If you’re a church leader leading a ministry or an organizational leader working to equip churches, you’re in the right place. … Read more
See all resource detailsThe More Than Enough Vision Starter Guide
The More Than Enough Vision Starter Guide
You care deeply about serving children and families in foster care, but mobilizing others can feel overwhelming. Get started with a guide to help you communicate a vision of more than enough where you live. In this guide, discover resources to help rally your community around a vision of more than enough for children and … Read more
See all resource detailsChild Protection
Child Protection
This eCourse will primarily focus on how to develop and implement child protection policies and procedures at the program level. There is much more to child protection beyond this content, but this is a starting point for programs serving children and vulnerable adults. For more learning about broader child protection systems, view this recording of … Read more
See all resource detailsMoving Towards Family Solutions: Preparing for Program Transition
Moving Towards Family Solutions: Preparing for Program Transition
Both Scripture and social science affirm that the ideal environment for a child is a loving family. There are certainly situations in which this is not possible, but our priority – both for any program we lead and each child we serve – should always be towards care that is as close as possible to … Read more
See all resource detailsFamily Strengthening
Family Strengthening
Most parents desire to care well for their children, but some are trying to accomplish that task with very minimal support, making it difficult to succeed. Family strengthening is a way for us to support these parents, show them that we believe in their ability, and empower them to raise their children to adulthood. In … Read more
See all resource detailsBetter Together: Network Assessment
Better Together: Network Assessment
Our goals in this survey is to capture the progress made toward supporting family and community based care, engaging Christians to action in serving vulnerable children and families, and promoting evidence-based approaches and practices when serving children and families. In addition, we hope to understand the network’s effectiveness to achieve these things, as well as … Read more
See all resource detailsA Journey Together
A Journey Together
CAFO would like to invite you and your staff into an experience that has been very meaningful for our team this year. Through 2022, we engaged in what we called the CAFO “Spiritual Formation Calendar.” Every month, we explored together a different spiritual formation practice — from solitude and Sabbath to gratitude, pruning, and generosity. Each … Read more
See all resource detailsJanuary 2023 Virtual Collaborate: Feeding and Forming the Soul on a Journey Together
January 2023 Virtual Collaborate: Feeding and Forming the Soul on a Journey Together
The essence of ministry is pouring out from ourselves. To continue in effective ministry, leaders need rhythms of receiving so our wells do not run dry. While we offer many things to others in this field (best practices, resources, training, services, etc), the most important is the presence of Jesus. It is this presence that … Read more
See all resource detailsThe Brain is Created to Heal: A Micro Course that breaks down the idea of ‘Neuroplasticity’
The Brain is Created to Heal: A Micro Course that breaks down the idea of ‘Neuroplasticity’
This micro course was developed from information related to the Research Team’s Symposium on the changing brain from 2018. Though this course is based on information from a research symposium, it has been modified and adapted so that individuals and groups together can understand and apply this information to their real-life situations. Whether you are … Read more
See all resource detailsApril 2023 Virtual Collaborate: Family Strengthening
April 2023 Virtual Collaborate: Family Strengthening
During this key topic presentations on Family Strengthening, invited speakers cover best practices or key points through lecture/presentation, panel discussions, or live interviews. Audience interaction occurs through polls, chat, and Q&A. In this recorded presentation, we explore best practices for family strengthening across cultures. We consider what it looks like to implement family strengthening principles … Read more
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