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Family Preservation Versus Child Protection? Gripping Polar Truths
In the past two weeks alone, and in at least a dozen separate contexts, I’ve listened to leaders…heard friends…read emails…reviewed articles…all expressing deeply-felt convictions on seemingly opposite sides of a...
Foster Care Activity VS Foster Care Movement
Foster care activity and the faith community's involvement in that activity has a long history in this country. In recent years, however, a new kind of faith-based, grassroots effort has...
US Department of State 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report
Strong empirical and anecdotal evidence reveals that human traffickers view children that lack families as the ideal target. The 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report from the US Department of State offers...
An Ancient Recipe for Addressing Brokenness Where You Live
My wife and I have lived in and renovated (yes, at the same time) a couple of different 100-year-old-plus homes during our marriage. Most people who take on these kind...
Giving the Gift of Rootedness
Anyone who has ever planted a sapling knows that it is often necessary to place a stake in the ground and strap it to the trunk for the tree’s first...
More than enough support for foster, kinship, adoptive and biological families (part 4 of 4)
This is the final post of a four part series on what it means when we say we are aiming for more than enough before, during and beyond foster care in...