Pilot Program

Working with The Bair Foundation (www.bair.org) and Focus on Youth (www.focusonyouth.com), the Coalition of Care is excited about the opportunity to conduct 2-3 special pilot programs starting in January 2010. The churches that are involved with this exciting venture will:

• Commit that a foster care/adoption/orphan ministry is important
  • Preferably with a message from the pulpit
• Conduct at least two Information Meetings on foster care opportunities in advance of the training
• Promote the foster care training within the church – encouraging people to explore the opportunity before the training begins.
  • What is foster care and what does it involve?
  • Why it is important and how people can be involved in different ways
• Provide the training at the church with either The Bair Foundation or Focus On Youth
  • There is no cost to the church– they come to you
  • Making appropriate accommodations for classroom space, printing, AV support, etc.
• Evaluate and contribute to the Coalition of Care Wrap Around Model that is under development
  • Involves five core resources that provides, protects and nurtures the family
• Begin the process of building the wrap around support team around potential foster care and adoptive families
  • Recognizing that this is a spiritual matter with eternal consequence
  • That it can volunteer led unless the staff wants to serve in this capacity
  • Watching the foster care families carefully and helping them succeed as issues/challenges come up, questions, doubts, concerns, etc
• Provide feedback on the model and the progress of the foster care families as their journey begins
  • What is working well, what needs improvement
• Celebrate the victories and the stories that come from the experience
  • Perhaps with a special service at the right time

 If you would like more information about joining this collaborative effort, please contact Coalition@achildshopeintl.org