Schedule - Christian Alliance for Orphans

CAFO2019 Schedule

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MONDAY, MAY 6
Join Pre-Summit Intensives by Adding Them to Your Registration.
PRE-SUMMIT INTENSIVES
- Building Trauma Competent Caregivers (day 1): 9:00am - 5:00pm
TUESDAY, MAY 7
Join Pre-Summit Intensives by Adding Them to Your Registration.
PRE-SUMMIT INTENSIVES
- Collaborate, a Forum for Global Leaders : Opening Session (5:00pm)
- Building Trauma Competent Caregivers (day 2): 9:00am - 5:00pm
- Trauma Competent Caregiving: Sharpening Your Skills: 9:00am - 5:00pm
- Moving Toward Family Solutions: An Immersive Simulation Experience: 9:00am - 5:00pm
WEDNESDAY, MAY 8
Join Pre-Summit Intensives by Adding Them to Your Registration. Check-in opens at 7:30am. CAFO2019 Opening Session beings at 3:00pm.
PRE-SUMMIT INTENSIVES
- OVC Symposium: Vulnerable Children in a Digital Age: 8:30am - 2:30pm
- Free to Lead: A One-Day Leadership Inventory Experience for People Passionate About Kids and Families: 8:30am - 2:30pm
- Creating a Co-Missional Marriage: 8:30am - 2:30pm
CAFO2019 BEGINS!
1:00pm - 3:00pm
For check in: PRINT & BRING your confirmation email with QR Scan Code
- Check-In, Exhibit Fair & Block Party
- Be Still and Be Refreshed: Preparing Our Hearts to Receive: 2:00pm - 2:45pm
3:00pm - 4:00pm
- General Session
4:15pm - 5:30pm
Extended Workshops
- Care Communities: Supporting Families with Wrap-around Care
- How to Develop a Church Special Needs Ministry to Serve Adopted and Foster Children…and Others Forgotten
- Bridges to Adulthood: Insights on Proven Aging Out Models (US & International)
- Foster Care, Immigrants, and Shalom: Addressing Broken Systems—and the Brokenness Within Yourself
- Lipstick on the Mirror: Keeping Your Marriage Vibrant and Your Ministry Moving
- From Head to Heart: How the Right Stats and Strategies Can Drive Greater Results
- Building Stronger Teams through Empowered Communications
- Keeping Integrity in the Stories You Share
- Triple Threat: Teenagers, Trauma, and Talking
- Finding Families for Children: The Condition, Needs, and Challenges of International Adoption
- Raising Black Children in a Multi-Racial Family
- Vulnerable Children in a Digital Age: Lab Session
- Government Collaboration: Keys to Successful Partnership from Local Alliances Around the World
- Critical Conversations: Innovation and Excellence in Child Sponsorship Programs (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
- CEO Forum: 2019 Issues, Strategies and Solutions (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
- How to Build a Responsible Reintegration Program
- Tech Wisdom - Healthy Relationships
Coaching Tables
- Custom Orphan Care Strategy for Your Church
- Building a Mentoring Strategy Aged-Out / Aging Out Youth
- Financially Stable: Turning Your Start-Up into a Sustainable Organization
Experience
- Prayer Room
- Exhibit Fair
- Rest & Refuel
- CAFO Bookstore
5:30pm - 7:30pm
- Dinner Break (pre-purchased tickets required)
- Moving the Needle: OVC Care in Peru (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
7:30pm - 8:45pm
What Matters Most, Speakers Coming Soon
- General Session
THURSDAY, MAY 9
8:45am - 9:45am
- General Session
10:00am - 12:00pm
Deep Dive Workshops
- Building an “Everyone Can Do Something” Ministry in Your Church
- Life in Limbo
- Engaging Brokenness with Increasing Resilience and Deepening Spiritual Maturity
- Clarify Your Message with StoryBrand
- Help! I Don't Know What I Don't Know About Funding My Ministry
- Parents as Partners: From Co-Regulation to Self-Regulation
- Shame, Beauty and the Healing Power of Community
- Funding Your Adoption
- Family Strengthening: Proven Practices and Strategies
- Living into the Squirm: Open Communication about Sexual Development
- Sustainable Social Enterprises: Hands-On How to Get Started (or Accelerate!)
- Software Solutions Forum for Effective Global Ministry
- Child Protection: Moving Toward a Culture of Safeguarding Children (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
- Crafting Beauty from Broken Pottery: A Hands-On Art Experience
- Orphan Sunday Coordinator Gathering (Invitation Only)
Coaching Tables
- Strategic Planning for Lay Leaders: 10:00am - 11:00am
- Excellence & Best Practices in Short-Term Missions: 10:00am - 11:00am
- How Can We Best Support Kin Carers in Global Settings?: 10:00am - 11:00am
- Diapers to Dentures: Engaging Your Whole Church in Orphan Care: 10:00am - 11:00am
- Conducting Effective Home Assessments for Reintegration: 10:00am - 11:00am
- Identifying & Preparing Families for Reintegration: 10:00am - 11:00am
- Helping Biological Children Navigate Trauma in Foster Care & Adoption: 10:00am - 11:00am
- Know Thyself….and Your Audience: 10:00am - 11:00am
Experience
- Prayer Room
- Exhibit Fair
- Rest & Refuel
- CAFO Bookstore
12:00pm - 1:15pm
- Lunch Break: 12pm - 1:15pm
- CAFO2019 Church and Organizational Leaders Lunch (CAFO Supporter and Champion Churches Only): RSVP Required
1:15pm - 2:15pm
Workshops
- Developing a Ministry Action Plan (MAP)
- Building a Volunteer Structure for Your Ministry
- Cross Pollination: Growing Meaningful Partnership Between Churches of Different Colors
- The Foster Journey: Characteristics of a Great Foster Parent
- When Date Nights Are Few
- Recapturing Lament: A Lost Language of Mercy, Hope and Healing
- Heading Back to a Child's Country of Origin: Exploring the Current Trends of Heritage Trips and Birth Mother Searches
- Attachment: Parenting With Your Brain In Mind
- Good Grief: Seven Ways to See Grief as a Gift
- Short-Term Missions: Innovation, Alternative Models, and the Way Forward
- More Than Possible: Helping Families with Special Needs Children to Keep Their Children at Home
- Situational Awareness and Security Considerations: Principles for Avoiding and Responding to Crises
- Investing In the Next Generation of OVC Advocates
- Critical Competencies in Preparing Foster and Adoptive Families in International Settings (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
- CAFO Communication Collaborative (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
- Building an Organization Culture Rooted in Spiritual Health (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
- Invisible Beauties… A Workshop for Healing Through Poetry
Coaching Tables
- Starting from Scratch: How To Lead Your Ministry from Dream to Action
- From Head to Heart: How the Right Stats and Strategies Can Drive Greater Results
- Extending Orphan Care to the Unborn: Embryo Adoption
- Your Child Protection Questions Answered
- Wrestling with Your Fears About Transition to Family Care
- Finding Space for Spiritual Retreat Amidst the Demands of Ministry
- How Your Core Elements Results Can Make Your Life Easier
- Working with Governments to Improve Care for Kids
- Coalition and Collaboration Building
- Empowering Your Children's Ministry Staff for Success
Experience
- Prayer & Reflection
- Exhibit Hall
- Rest & Refuel
- CAFO Bookstore
2:30pm - 3:30pm
Workshops
- Empowering Your Children's Ministry Staff for Success
- What Can I Do When My Leadership Isn’t on Board? Tips for Leading from the Bottom-Up
- Effective Global Partnerships: Connecting Your Church to What God is Doing Around the World
- More Than Enough: What Foster Care Movement Looks Like Where You Live
- Serving as a Family
- Praise & Petition
- How To Harness the Power of Story to Help Children Heal from Trauma
- Helping Caregivers Hold Hard Stories for Traumatized Children
- Valuing Attachment Rituals in the Lives of Children Impacted by Early Institutionalized Care
- Building the Social Workforce by Recruiting and Training Para-Professionals
- Business Professionals and the Cause of the Fatherless
- Partnering for Children in Families: Reintegration, Fostering, and Adoption
- Assessing Assessments: How Can We Strengthen the Home Study Process? (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
- 7 Global Trends that Impact OVC Care…and 7 OVC Trends that Impact the Globe
Coaching Tables
- Building Support Groups for Adoptive and Foster Families
- Developing a Ministry Action Plan (MAP)
- How to Surround Families in Crisis with a Caring, Compassionate Commuity
- Strategies for Unlocking Team Potential
- Openness in Adoption: How To Navigate the Hard Stuff
- Caring for Children in Families in Developing Nations
- Strong Communities, Strong Families
- Prioritizing a Sabbatical that Rejuvenates You...and Your Ministry
Experience
- Prayer & Reflection
- Exhibit Hall
- Rest & Refuel
- CAFO Bookstore
3:15pm - 3:45pm
- Energy Break: 3:15pm - 3:45pm
3:45pm - 4:45pm
Workshops
- Reframing the Struggle: Finding Hope in the Journey of Foster Care and Adoption
- Faith Based Support for Foster and Adoptive Families
- Church and State Partnerships in Foster Care
- Refugee Foster Care: Journeys of Hope
- The Intersection of Pain and Purpose
- Conflict Management and Team Ministry
- Using the Adverse Childhood Experiences Survey (ACE) in Ministry
- Adopting Older Children
- The Cognitive Core
- Surviving Puberty and the Sexual Development of Children with Complex Trauma
- Five Steps to Transition Donors to Support a New Care Model and Improve Fundraising
- When There Isn’t a Doctor: Medical Assessment and Improvised Treatment for the Layman
- 50 Ideas for Your Orphan or Stand Sunday
- International US Policies & Priorities for Vulnerable Children...And How You Fit In (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
Coaching Tables
- Simple and Surprising Ways Your Church Can Serve the Foster Care Community
- Developing a Holistic Approach to Church Orphan Care Ministry
- Building a Custom Orphan Care Strategy for Your Church
- The Virtual Office: Effective Volunteers, Interns and Staff
- Single Parent Adoption
- How to Create Valuable Content for a Blog or Podcast
- Effective Reintegration Program Management
Experience
- Prayer & Reflection
- Exhibit Hall
- Rest & Refuel
- CAFO Bookstore
4:45pm - 7:00pm
- Dinner Break: 4:45pm - 7pm (Pre-Purchased Tickets Required)
7:00pm - 8:45pm
- GENERAL SESSION: 7pm - 8:45pm
FRIDAY, MAY 10
8:30am - 9:30am
Workshops
- Working Together: Building Collaboration through Regional Alliances
- Building a Trauma Competent Kids and Student Ministry
- The Church’s Role in Family Restoration
- Data as a Tool for Transforming Foster Care Where You Live
- Learning How to Father Well
- Soul Care: Luxury or Necessity?
- Fearful Women Wanted: How the Lord Shapes Lives that Saves Lives
- Discipling Children Coming From Hard Places
- Embracing Adoption's Inherent Loss and Grief: Knowing and Loving Adoptees
- So You're Considering Adoption? Five Questions You Need to Ask and Where to Find Answers
- 10 Policies, Tools, and Templates Every Nonprofit Needs in 2019
- Working with Churches and Communities to Build Economic Capacity in Families
- Institutional and Residential Care: What’s the Difference?
- Writing and Speaking About Your Story
- Better Together Collaboratives (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
Coaching Tables
- Help! I'm Planning An Orphan/Stand Sunday Event!
- Building an “Everyone Can Do Something” Model of Ministry in Your Church
- Help! I Don't Know What I Don't Know About Funding My Ministry
- Child Protection - Do We Need a Policy? Is Our Policy Good Enough?
- Uncovering Hope in the Hardest of Stories
- How Can You Best Empower Families in Reintegration
- Raising Black Children in a Multi-Cultural Family
- How to Talk Adoption so Your Child will Listen
- What's Working to Transitioning Donors
Experience
- Prayer & Reflection
- Exhibit Hall
- Rest & Refuel
- CAFO Bookstore
9:45am - 10:45am
Workshops
- For Senior Pastors: Leading and Influencing Culture from the Top-Down
- Establishing and Sustaining a Multi Church Collaboration
- Effectively Leading in a Large Church Context
- How Your Organization Can Better Serve the Church
- Walking the Tight Rope: How to Balance the Tensions and Seeming Contradictions in Foster Care Ministry
- Go Big AND Go Home
- The Tough Sell: Suggesting Adoption in Medical/Pregnancy Clinics
- Navigating Birth Parent Relationships as a Foster and/or Adoptive Parent
- Helping You Disciple Your Adopted Teenager
- ACTIVE Family Support: A Practical Model to Prevent the Unnecessary Separation of Children and Strengthen Families
- Creating a Trauma-Informed Culture in your Ministry Site
- Restoration at the Core
- Leveraging Your Data to Improve Programs and Communicate with Donors (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
- Domestic US Policies & Priorities for Vulnerable Children...And How You Fit In (CAFO Member Organizations Only)
- Special Needs Adoption & Foster Care: Do I Have What It Takes?
Coaching Tables
- Mobilizing your Church for Mission
- Diapers to Dentures: Engaging Your Whole Church in Orphan Care
- Training Volunteers to Interact with Kids and Families in Foster Care
- Tips for Engaging Business Leaders to Engage with Your Ministry
- The Cognitive Core
- Addressing the Resistance to Reintegration from Staff and Donors
- Safeguards in Parenting Vulnerable Children in a Digital Age
- Using Data to Improve Programs and Communicate with Donors
- Culturally Competent Ways to Facilitate Attachment
Experience
- Prayer & Reflection
- Exhibit Hall
- Rest & Refuel
- Summit Genus Bar
- CAFO Bookstore
11:00am - 12:30pm
- General Session
Your Email (for confirmation)*

CAFO2019 Schedule

Build your CAFO experience below!

Click items to create your schedule, then submit form. Your selections will be emailed to you, along with a discount coupon on a CAFO2019 t-shirt (on-site only)! Come back and fill out your schedule as many times as you like for the best experience possible.

**Selecting a Coaching Table on this page does NOT reserve you a spot for that table. You must visit the Coaching Table page to view the available tables and then fill out the form at the bottom of the page in order to reserve your spot.**

MONDAY, MAY 6

TUESDAY, MAY 7

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8

CAFO2019 BEGINS!

1:00pm - 3:00pm

3:00pm - 4:00pm

4:15pm - 5:30pm

5:30pm - 7:30pm

7:30pm - 8:45pm

THURSDAY, MAY 9

8:45am - 9:45am

10:00am - 12:00pm

12:00pm - 1:15pm

1:15pm - 2:15pm

2:30pm - 3:30pm

3:15pm - 3:45pm

3:45pm - 4:45pm

4:45pm - 7:00pm

7:00pm - 8:45pm

FRIDAY, MAY 10

8:30am - 9:30am

9:45am - 10:45am

11:00am - 12:30pm

Selecting a Coaching Table on this page does NOT reserve you a spot for that table. You must visit the Coaching Table page to view the available tables and then fill out the form at the bottom of the page in order to reserve your spot.