CHRISTIAN ALLIANCE FOR ORPHANS
The CAFO Blog
Jason Weber
Marco Polo and leveraging your community’s foster care data
I spent the better part of my childhood summer afternoons at our local city swimming pool. I remember our town’s coolest teenagers camped out on their towels in the deep-end...
Let’s end the foster care crisis … by making it feel smaller
In high school, one of our friends had a very small car. I don’t remember the make and model, but it was, up to that point, the smallest car I’d...
The ‘special sauce’ of local foster care strategy
As you might know, the little fishy symbol that you sometimes see on the back of someone's car (hopefully not right after they have rudely cut you off in traffic)...
A different direction: When church and state work together to help children and families
In 2008, Sara Tucholsky, a college softball player from Western Oregon, hit her first and only home run. As she was rounding first base, she missed the bag. Her first-base...
Discovering your community: Finding what will make the biggest difference for children and families in foster care
As a kid, I loved going to the grocery store with my mom. My favorite part was the cereal aisle. We would arrive at the store, and while my mom...
Church collaboration in foster care: An ode to breakfasts and bullfrogs
When I facilitate gatherings of people in communities around the country, I almost always start with some questions for folks to answer at their tables to get to know each...
