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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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Cultivating Soul Care
Cultivating Soul Care
New Research on What Truly Protects Those Who Serve Vulnerable Children Join the CAFO Research Center for an in-depth look at new findings on the role of spiritual support in promoting well-being among child welfare professionals. This webinar will unpack insights from our peer-reviewed study, Organization Spiritual Support, Burnout and Well-being in Child Welfare Settings, … Read more
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
Thought Leadership from Collaborate: The Legacy of Leadership
Thought Leadership from Collaborate: The Legacy of Leadership
This document highlights conversations from virtual Collaborate: The Legacy of Leadership. Leaders living and serving around the world shared their perspectives on Biblical mentorship.
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
What is the Institute for Family-Centered Healing & Health?
What is the Institute for Family-Centered Healing & Health?
Explore the Rationale, Purpose and Vision of the CAFO Family Institute.
Justice + the Inner Life One-Pager
Justice + the Inner Life One-Pager
Discover what the Justice + the Inner Life podcast is all about with this quick overview. Discover life habits and small choices that God uses to help us remain steadfast and vibrant in the long, hard work of justice and mercy.
Spiritual Formation Calendar One-Pager
Spiritual Formation Calendar One-Pager
A brief overview of CAFO’s Spiritual Formation Calendar Experience. The Spiritual Formation Calendar Experience is designed to help leaders of organizations, churches or networks to lead a team through biblically-rooted practices of spiritual formation.
Barriers to Spiritual Practice in Child Welfare
Barriers to Spiritual Practice in Child Welfare
Child welfare professionals often face challenges in engaging with spiritual practices recommended by their organizations. In this study of 304 child welfare professionals from over 20 countries, seven main barriers to spiritual practice emerged.
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
