Discover the resources your community already has to care for children and families, and what you still need on the path to more than enough
Foster care can feel like a puzzle. But providing more than enough is possible.
Along the way, you’ll have to ask: Do we have all the pieces we need to put the puzzle together?
What resources do we already have in our community? What are the problems we need to solve? Who is working in this space? How can we do more together?
Discovering Your Community will help you answer those very questions. This four-week collaborative learning experience will guide you and a group of your local collaborators through a three-stage process of understanding the nine essential pieces for serving children and families in foster care, identifying the biggest strengths and gaps in foster care in your county, and determining the best next steps forward.
What You Can Expect
Collaborative Brainstorming
To kick off this project, you and your local collaborators will put your heads together during facilitated brainstorming times. We’ll think through the nine pieces every community needs to care for children and families, the current strengths and gaps in your county, and who the key players are in your community.
Community Conversations
During Weeks Two and Three, you’ll launch into your community with the tools to have conversations with key stakeholders in foster care about the strengths, gaps, and opportunities for collaboration in your county.
Strategic Next Steps
Lastly, we’ll guide you through the process of narrowing down all the information that you’ve gathered during this project into a couple of strategic next steps for effective and collaborative action in your county. You’ll receive a customized report that will serve as a reference of all the work that the group has accomplished during this project and the plan to continue forward.
Course Details
Dates
Early 2024
Registration Opening & Start Date To Be Announced Soon
Cost
$99 / person
If your organization is interested in a discount for a larger group of participants, contact Jeremiah Brown at [email protected].
Who Should Participate?
The Discovering Your Community process requires:
4-10 foster care organization or church ministry leaders that are actively serving the same US county
Who are willing to collaborate and are looking for opportunities to more effectively care for children and families before, during, and beyond foster care
Live Sessions
During both Week One and Week Four, there will be three live sessions via Zoom that will last approximately 1-1.5 hours each. These live meetings will occur on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and specific times will be selected based on all group participants' availability.
Time Investment
Plan to invest approximately four to five hours per week on live session attendance, community meetings, and completing assigned responsibilities.
If you are interested in participating in the Early 2024 offering of Discovering Your Community, please complete this interest form. You will be given additional details regarding course prerequisites and will be notified as the registration and launch date become available.
Contact Rachel Jackson at [email protected] for any questions.
Meet Your Course Guides
Jason Weber
National Director, More than Enough
Rachel Jackson
Data Analyst, More than Enough