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CAFO2024 Digital Media Share Kit
CAFO2024 Digital Media Share Kit
The CAFO2024 Summit gathers foster and adoptive parents, orphan advocates, students, pastors and leaders to inspire and equip God’s people to effectively live out their calling to care for vulnerable children and families. Find words, phrases, photos and information to share about the CAFO2024 Summit with your network.
CAFO2023 Full Conference Download
CAFO2023 Full Conference Download
UNHURRIED: LIVING WITH THE LONG VIEWThe fruit of our labor often feels so small and incomplete, even as fresh needs rise before us every day. A deep sense of urgency can dominate us daily. Jesus faced all that we face and more, yet he never ever seemed hurried. He lived always with the long view … Read more
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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
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
Attachment After Adversity: Building Resilience Through Relationship
Attachment After Adversity: Building Resilience Through Relationship
No matter a child’s history, there is always hope for improving well-being through positive, supportive relationships. Using research on adversity and attachment, this book examines what a history of adversity might look like, how it shapes a child’s expectations for what a relationship is, and how long-term nurture can successfully carry that child into adulthood.
Family Institute Overview
Family Institute Overview
The Institute for Family-Centered Healing & Health will address the deeply-felt needs of foster and adoptive parents to nurture the healing and health of their children, rooted in Scripture and the best available research.
The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Healthy Eating
The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Healthy Eating
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 you can take that really make a difference in physical, mental and emotional health as it relates to healthy eating habits.
Reframing Foster Care
Reframing Foster Care
Filtering Your Foster Parenting Journey Through the Lens of the Gospel Foster parents face a unique set of circumstances and experience a wide array of emotions that few can relate to. Their journey is one of equal parts beauty and brokenness, joy and heartache, excitement and exhaustion. There is no textbook on how to be … Read more
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The Brain is Created to Heal: A Micro Course that breaks down the idea of ‘Neuroplasticity’
The Brain is Created to Heal: A Micro Course that breaks down the idea of ‘Neuroplasticity’
This micro course was developed from information related to the Research Team’s Symposium on the changing brain from 2018. Though this course is based on information from a research symposium, it has been modified and adapted so that individuals and groups together can understand and apply this information to their real-life situations. Whether you are … Read more
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Vulnerable Children in a Digital Age: Why Children from Hard Places are More Susceptible to Harm from Technology, and What We Can Do to Help
Vulnerable Children in a Digital Age: Why Children from Hard Places are More Susceptible to Harm from Technology, and What We Can Do to Help
Everyday technology use is a pervasive phenomenon with potential for both great good and tremendous harm. Perhaps the most susceptible to these risks are those most vulnerable in general: children who have experienced early childhood adversity, especially those separated from parental care. This book provides actionable knowledge from a scientific perspective, through a faith-based lens, … Read more
The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Being Physically Active
The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Being Physically Active
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
Mediating the Roles of Attachment
Mediating the Roles of Attachment
Adults who were separated from their parents as children experienced significant early adversity. Early adversity is often associated with poorer outcomes in adulthood. It is important to identify which factors might help individuals facing early adversity to fare better as adults. This infographic shares findings on the roles of attachment, avoidance and anxiety in relation … Read more
The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Getting Good Sleep
The Powerful Role of the Body in Mental Health: Getting Good Sleep
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.
The Changing Brain: Created to Heal
The Changing Brain: Created to Heal
Years of research have shown us that adversity can negatively impact even children’s adult lives. Fortunately, we also see now that the right interventions can actually reverse damage, and empower a move toward health. This book provides actionable knowledge about how God created the brain to heal itself, which allows parents, caregivers, and practitioners to … Read more
Adverse childhood experiences and problematic media use: the roles of attachment and impulsivity
Adverse childhood experiences and problematic media use: the roles of attachment and impulsivity
Is the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and problematic media use mediated by attachment and impulsivity? This infographic shares the results of a study examining the association between these two factors and relevant implications.
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Problematic Media Use: Perceptions of Caregivers of High-Risk Youth
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Problematic Media Use: Perceptions of Caregivers of High-Risk Youth
This infographic shares the highlights of a study looking at Adverse Childhood Experiences and Problematic Media Use, including recommendations based on the findings related to problematic media use behaviors being more predictive of psychosocial difficulties than the amount of screen time.