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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...
Why your marriage matters for your child’s mental health
Summary: A committed marriage — even when imperfect — offers immense gifts to husband and wife. It is also a vital contribution to the healing and health of children who...
Foster care math: The limits of ‘if every church raised up one foster family’
The phrase, “If every church raised up one foster family, we would eradicate the crisis,” has become a powerful and widely used rallying cry in foster care — and for...
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...
New local foster care data tool helps make the foster care crisis feel solvable
More Than Enough, CAFO’s US foster care initiative, has launched the More Than Enough dashboard to share local foster care data across the US and help drive local engagement. Historically,...
The story of proximity, desperation and redemption at the heart of pure religion
Christine Ingebretson spends her days engaging churches to care for vulnerable children and families in San Francisco as a leader with Foster the City. There’s a trajectory to people and...
