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6 Take-Aways from Bethany Christian Services’ Decision to Cease International Adoptions
After four decades helping children find families through inter-country adoption, Bethany Christian Services has announced it will stop providing this service in 2021. Major constrictions on international adoption by countries...
Announcing … The CAFO’s 2020 Theme!
[pullquote]What are the most consequential decisions we make? What choices most shape the people we’ll become and the impact we’ll leave?[/pullquote] Years ago, I struggled mightily as I neared the...
Foster and Adopted Children Eligible for Help from Social Security
The US Social Security Administration (SSA) wants parents to understand that foster youth in their care -- and, in limited situations, adopted children -- may be eligible for help from...
Our Favorite Music Video of the Year
For Orphan Sunday and Stand Sunday, CAFO partnered with the duo Morgan Still -- Jamie Grace and her old sister Morgan Harper Nichols -- to produce a video celebrating what...
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...
Short Video of One of the Most Moving Moments of the Year
Without exaggeration, it was one of the most moving and meaningful things I’ve experienced in the past year. It came in the opening moments of CAFO2019, as participants from across...