Find what's right for you this summer.
Explore the opportunities below, and then take your best next steps as you work with others to provide more than enough for children and families where you live.
When you register for courses by May 10th, you can get 15% off with the promo code MTESUMMER15.
Summer 2024 at a Glance
Check out a monthly snapshot of upcoming opportunities for you and your team, and then learn more about each below.
June
June 10-14: More Than Enough Essentials Course
June 20: Communications Cohort
Multiple Dates: Church Engagement Conversation Cohorts
July
July 8-Aug 9: Discovering Your Community Course
July 10: Measuring Your Impact Data Cohort
July 24: Vision Starter Guide Clinic
Multiple Dates: Church Engagement Conversation Cohorts
August
Apr 29 - May 3: Making the Pitch Course
Aug 1: More Than Enough Fellowship Application
Aug 28: Communications Cohort
Multiple Dates: Church Engagement Conversation Cohort
Explore by Topic
Collaboration: Work Together to Transform Foster Care
More Then Enough Fellowship
Application rounds open Apr 1-30 and Aug 1-31
Apply for a funded cohort that will guide you and other collaborators in your community through the earliest stages of working together to provide more than enough.
More Than Enough Essentials
June 10-14, $99
Join a one-week online course designed to help you and other foster care leaders work together to fill the biggest gaps in caring for children and families.
Discovering Your Community
July 8-Aug 9, $99
Join a four-week collaborative project to identify what pieces your county as in place to care for children and families and what pieces you still need. (Prerequisite: More Than Enough Essentials)
Communications
Communications Cohorts
June 20 and Aug 28, Free
Gather with communications staff like you on Zoom to find ideas and cultivate relationships to help you thrive in your work.
Vision Starter Guide Clinic
July 24, $49
Join an interactive clinic to develop language and skills to communicate a compelling vision of more than enough for children and families.
Making the Pitch
Aug 19-23, $99
Join a one-week online course to gain skills and confidence to communicate what you do, share your passion for foster care and invite others to join you—all in a six-minute pitch.
Church Engagement
Fuel + Friction Webinar
May 9 or May 13, Free
Join other church engagement leaders to explore how you can help remove roadblocks and minimize barriers that keep churches from taking action.
Church Engagement Conversation Cohorts
Four dates per month, Free
Join short, informal "conversation cohorts" where church engagement leaders gather, connect, ask questions and share ideas.
Data & Technology
Measuring Your Impact Data Cohorts
May 8 and July 10, Free
Meet your fellow data people! Join us as we discuss strategies and solutions in data and technology specific to US Foster Care.
CAFO Summit: Find Your Foster Care People
CAFO Summit
Sept 18-20, Prices Vary
Join us at Summit for an unforgettable gathering of churches, organizations and advocates who are passionate about caring for vulnerable children and families.
From the Inside Out
Pre-Summit Intensive
Wed Sep 18, $99 ($59 for CAFO Members)
Come to Summit early to explore bedrock values of organizational and network health, and learn how to operationalize them in areas ranging from internal communications to church engagement.
The More Than Enough Community Reunion
Sept 18, $27 (After June 1st: $32)
Join us on Wednesday for a reunion dinner for all the "foster care people" at Summit. If you work to care for children and families at a US organization, agency or church foster care ministry, don't miss this celebration!