More Than Enough
Your community can work together to provide more than enough for children and families where you live.
Foster care can feel like a puzzle to everyone involved.
To the social workers, the biological families, the foster parents, and especially to the kids in it. You can help your community put the pieces together.
And you don't have to figure it out on your own.
“More Than Enough gives me vision, language, goals, stats, tools, encouragement, and community. These elements and more increase both my confidence and competence to convene in a Kingdom way. I couldn’t and wouldn’t want to do it without this team at my back.”
Paul
Community Leader in Ohio
Let’s start putting the puzzle together.
Like any puzzle, there are a few key questions you’ll have right away. And we’re here to help you answer them.
Do we have the box top?
If you’ve ever tried putting a puzzle together without the box top, you know just how much harder it is. When you don’t know whether you are putting together a picture of a dalmatian or a herd of cows, the degree of difficulty goes through the roof. The box top provides a picture of what the puzzle will look like when it’s done.
When it comes to the puzzle of foster care, you need a picture of what you are putting together. You need a box top.
A vision of more than enough for children and families before, during, and beyond foster care serves as the box top to guide your community toward the things children and families need most.
We’ve created tools to help you share the box top—to help you effectively communicate a clear vision of more than enough alongside others in your community.
Get started with these resources:
Explore principles and practices that will help advocates, churches, and organizations in your community work together to provide more than enough.
Access communications tools that will help you cast a vision of more than enough, mobilizing your community around the box top.
Listen to the voices and expertise of former foster youth as they share their perspective on what foster care can and should look like in our communities.
Do we have all the pieces?
We all know the feeling of trying to put a puzzle together and realizing we are missing pieces. Maybe the kids lost some beneath the couch cushion or the roomba dutifully devoured a couple of key edge pieces.
In your community, you’ll need a core set of pieces in place to reach more than enough for kids and families.
If you’re missing these pieces, you’ll quickly hit a dead-end in your ability to put the puzzle together.
Drawing on insights from more than 40 foster care leaders across the US, we’ve identified the key pieces that need to have a presence in every community in order to reach more than enough.
We want to help connect you with the other pieces in your community and find all the pieces you need.
Get started with this resource:
Discovering Your Community
Join this four-week collaborative project to identify what pieces of the puzzle your community has, and the best next steps to address those together.
The Foster Care Strategy Hub
Explore vetted programs and models organized to help you find the pieces you're missing, understand what it takes to launch them locally, and decide whether a program is right for your community.
Do we know how to put the pieces together?
You may not even realize it, but there are guiding principles you use every time you put a puzzle together. You start with the edges, and then you start working inward. You sort the pieces and each person takes a section—the sky, the flowers, the lake, the mountain—and everyone looks for the moment they can connect their section to their neighbor’s.
The same is true in our communities. There are guiding principles and tools that can help churches, organizations, and advocates work together more effectively to reach a vision of more than enough for children and families. We’re here to connect you to those principles and tools and demystify the journey towards more than enough.
Get started with these resources:
Join a one-week online course designed to help you and other foster care leaders work together to fill the biggest gaps in caring for children and families.
Hear from people like you across the US about how they are putting the pieces together, and discover ideas and tools that will help you along the way.
Explore five core relational commitments you can make to fellow collaborators, helping you build and maintain trust as you work together.
