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Sturdy Family Practices
Sturdy Family Practices
Designed to help ministry leaders more effectively support foster and adoptive families in the realities of daily life, Sturdy Family Practices translates big ideas about healing into everyday rhythms grounded in both Scripture and science. In a time when youth well-being is declining, this course provides a clear path forward, equipping ministry leaders and parents … Read more
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CAFO2025 Full Conference Audio Download
CAFO2025 Full Conference Audio Download
Now available! Purchase the audio recordings from the General Sessions and Instructional workshops from the CAFO2025 conference in Houston, TX to enjoy at your own pace. This year’s CAFO2025 theme is “DISTINCT: Different from the World, for the World. Of this we can be sure: what our world needs most is not just more of … Read more
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Gen Z Mental Health & Well-Being: A Faith-Based Response to a Generation Under Pressure
Gen Z Mental Health & Well-Being: A Faith-Based Response to a Generation Under Pressure
Gen Z Mental Health & Well-Being: A Faith-Based Response to a Generation Under Pressure is a vital resource for those serving Gen Z, including foster and adoptive families and those working with vulnerable youth. Grounded in scientific research and biblical truth, this Barna report offers practical strategies for supporting young people facing anxiety, loneliness and identity … Read more
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What does “transitioning to family care” mean?
What does “transitioning to family care” mean?
Scripture and science are clear: children do best in families. However, for those in the trenches of caring for vulnerable children in low-resource communities, this can seem like an idealistic dream. But around the world, residential programs are freshly recognizing the importance of family for children and are transitioning their care models to family-based solutions. … Read more
Quality Sleep for Family Flourishing
Quality Sleep for Family Flourishing
The Scripture communicates that sleep is a gift from God, which we are invited to receive as part of a trusting relationship with God. We sleep knowing God doesn’t. This resource provides practical steps for how we can improve our sleep and help our children improve theirs.
Gen Z and Mental Well-Being Webinar
Gen Z and Mental Well-Being Webinar
Practical Ideas for Christian Leaders and Parents Loving Vulnerable Children and Families Amid rising anxiety and depression, young people report being less happy and healthy, with greater struggles in purpose, character, and relationships. How can Christian parents and leaders respond – not with fear, but with wisdom and hope? This webinar, featuring Barna’s Gen Z and Mental … Read more
Physical Activity for Family Flourishing
Physical Activity for Family Flourishing
God designed us so that we grow and come alive as integrated beings – mind, body and spirit. As we engage the body in vigorous activity or even gentle movement, our mind, our emotions and our spirit are more alert, more agile and more well-off. This resource includes some sensible, easy ways to increase physical … Read more
Estabilidad de la Colocación y Apoyo Familiar después de una Reintegración Repentina bajo Mandato del Gobierno: Un Seguimiento de Dos Años
Estabilidad de la Colocación y Apoyo Familiar después de una Reintegración Repentina bajo Mandato del Gobierno: Un Seguimiento de Dos Años
La pandemia del COVID-19 provocó que los niños fueran reintegrados repentinamente dell cuidado residencial a entornos familiares por mandato del gobierno debido a las preocupaciones sobre el distanciamiento social. Este estudio examina los resultados complejos dos años después de esta reintegración repentina, enfatizando la importancia de los servicios de apoyo continuos para la estabilidad familiar … Read more
Healthy Eating for Family Flourishing
Healthy Eating for Family Flourishing
Nutrition and mental health interact intimately. Across the lifespan, the developing human brain is profoundly impacted by what we eat. This resource provides research-based steps that you and your family can take that really make a difference for physical and mental health, as well as long-term flourishing.
Placement Stability and Family Support After Government-Mandated Rapid Return: A Two-Year Follow-Up
Placement Stability and Family Support After Government-Mandated Rapid Return: A Two-Year Follow-Up
The COVID-19 pandemic led to government-mandated rapid returns of children from residential care to family settings due to social distancing concerns. This study examines the complex outcomes two years following rapid return, emphasizing the importance of ongoing support services for long term family stability.
Unburdening Summertime to Promote Flourishing
Unburdening Summertime to Promote Flourishing
We all want to fill our summer with good things. It’s easy to imagine, as one activity is added after another, that each of these good opportunities piles more good into our summer. Yet, the reality is that so often as we do this, our lives become unintentionally overscheduled, leaving our days crammed and our spirits exhausted. Sometimes, in … Read more
Current Trauma Research: A Collaborative Review
Current Trauma Research: A Collaborative Review
For those interested in current developments in trauma-related research and how it may intersect with their day-to-day work, the CAFO Institute for Family-Centered Healing & Health has created this collaborative review working document of current trauma research. Trauma-informed care is an emerging and dynamic field. It is rich in opportunity for fresh exploration, discovery, application … Read more
Human Health & Gifts of the Christian Life
Human Health & Gifts of the Christian Life
Measures of mental health have dropped sharply in Western nations over the past decade, especially among youth. This era is marked by dis-integration, felt from the level of the individual soul to age-old institutions to the level of national and global affairs. Amid such fracturing, very ordinary Christian practices offer extraordinary gifts. They are graces — both … Read more
Preventing Caregiver Burnout: Religion and Strategies of Flourishing Webinar
Preventing Caregiver Burnout: Religion and Strategies of Flourishing Webinar
Gatekeeping: Reducing Unnecessary Entry Into Alternative Care
Gatekeeping: Reducing Unnecessary Entry Into Alternative Care
A webinar discussing how we can reduce unnecessary entry into alternative care through family strengthening measures.
Developing Social Work Capacity in Low-Resource Environments
Developing Social Work Capacity in Low-Resource Environments
This webinar explores the role of para professionals in the social service workforce. How can your organization optimize the various backgrounds and talents of the employees and volunteers to effectively serve the children and families in your care?
