Sometimes making changes in our organizations and in our families can feel a lot like wrangling goats. We worry before the changes even go into effect that they will bring anxiety and chaos - but it doesn't have to be that way. Leading people through changes doesn't have to feel like a guaranteed, chaotic, goat-rodeo.
Join us today for a conversation with Katie Casselberry, the Director of Communications for More Than Enough, about making changes - big and small - and helping the people around us embrace them.
Then, to help us all gain a little perspective on what it looks like for a state department to make changes, we talk with Gina Meier-Hummel. Gina formerly served as the Director of Children and Family Services in Kansas, and has been working on behalf of children and families for over 32 years. She has a lot to share about her experiences and shares ideas to encourage us as we come alongside child welfare workers in our own communities.
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But it doesn’t have to be that way where you live. If you were to find and effectively collaborate with the right people, your county could go from “not enough” to “more than enough.” This book will help you lay the essential groundwork to see that happen.
Until There’s More than Enough is a faith-based field guide for collaborative foster care transformation in your community. Gleaning from the experience of dozens of government, nonprofit, and faith leaders from across the country, Until There’s More than Enough represents a set of principles and practices that will help advocates, churches, and organizations in your community work together to transform foster care.
More than enough for kids and families before, during, and beyond foster care can happen where you live. Believe it’s possible. Do your part. Do it together.
Katie Casselberry serves as Director of Communications for More Than Enough, where she leads our communications focused on US foster care and equips local churches, organizations, and advocates to effectively cast a vision of more than enough where they live.
Katie joined CAFO from International Justice Mission (IJM), where she served as Global Sr. Lead for Brand and PR Messaging. In this role, she led messaging strategy and content for IJM’s global brand, and created trainings and resources to equip staff across IJM’s five regions to amplify and unify IJM’s voice. Prior to her time at IJM, Katie was Director of Marketing and Communications at the Chalmers Center for Economic Development.
Outside of work, you’ll find Katie serving as local Auntie to her sister's family, hiking, baking, or trying to rehabilitate her classical piano skills.
Formerly, Gina served as the Secretary for the Kansas Department for Children and Families, having been in the Cabinet of both Governor Brownback and Governor Colyer. Gina also is the former Deputy Director of Crime Victims Services for Attorney General Dereck Schmidt and served the AG as the first Youth Suicide Prevention Coordinator for the State of Kansas, a position created by the Kansas Legislature.
Gina has worked in several positions locally and on a statewide basis. She started her career in Lawrence Ks. as a Child Protective Service investigator. Served as the former Director of Children and Family Services for the State of Kansas, the former Commissioner for the Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services over mental health, addictions programing, and all Medicaid Waiver Programs, and was the former Executive Director of The Children’s Shelter Inc.
Gina has served on the Governor's Education Advisory Task Force and Substance Abuse Prevention Task Force, the Governor’s Task Force on Disproportionality, and served as Judicial Appointee for the Legislative Taskforce on Child Welfare Reform in Kansas. She also served on the Governors Social Service Advisory Council and currently is the Board President for the Children’s Alliance of Kansas and sits on the Board of Directors for the Lawrence, Ks Chamber of Commerce.
