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Partnership and Collaboration
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...
On the Ground: The difference community mapping can make in US foster care
Like a puzzle where you don’t have all the pieces, trying to provide more than enough for children and families before, during and beyond foster care without all the programs...
Community mapping in US foster care: Finding the pieces in your community
Foster care in your community can feel like a puzzle. Like assembling any puzzle, you’ll run into some questions along the way. Where’s the box top — do we know...
Community mapping in action: Stories from the field
Across cultures, systems and ministry contexts, leaders serving vulnerable children often share a quiet reality: the work can feel lonely. Organizations carry heavy responsibility. Churches respond faithfully within their capacity....
Community mapping: Seeing who is already at work
In communities around the world, leaders are working tirelessly to serve vulnerable children and families. Churches are responding to urgent needs, NGOs are running programs with deep commitment, and government...
Be the Village: Short film highlights the power of collaboration in Lake County, Indiana
We all want to see our communities rally around children and families in foster care, working together to accomplish more than we ever could alone. After all, we know “it...
