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 clear path for addressing key gaps and strengthening collaborative action in your county. You’ll work together to develop a project plan with clear next steps for your community to begin embarking on together.
Course Details
Dates
March 18 - April 12, 2024
Enrollment closes on March 8 to begin pre-work
Cost
*per participant
$99 (non-CAFO members)
$89 (CAFO Members)
CAFO Members: use code provided at membership for discount
When you register, you can get a 10% off promo code for a friend outside your organization to join you!
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
Hybrid Course Format
This course will function in a hybrid format, with a mix of pre-recorded sessions, offline assignments, and live check-ins with your course facilitators.
*Your group will still need to select a time to gather together (via Zoom or in-person) for each of the pre-recorded sessions and collaborative work.
Scheduled session time required for each week:
Week 1 - Session 1 (1.5 hours), Session 2 (1.5 hours), Check-in (30 min.)
Week 2 - Check-in (30 min.)
Week 3 - Check-in (30 min.)
Week 4 - Session 3 (1.5 hours), Session 4 (1.5 hours), Check-in (45 min.)
Time Investment
Plan to invest approximately six hours per week on session or check-in attendance, community meetings, and completing assigned responsibilities.
Note: Completion of More Than Enough Essentials is a pre-requisite for this course. If you haven't yet taken Essentials, check out the next course offering here.
Reminder: Enrollment closes on March 8!
Meet Your Course Guides
Jason Weber
National Director, More than Enough
Rachel Jackson
Data Analyst, More than Enough