You’re working with others in your community to care for kids and families in foster care, but you want that work to go the distance to see real, long-term change.

This online course will give you and your collaborators guided support to help you build a sustainable collaboration.

Register now for the June 2 - August 8 course session!

*Registration closes on May 21

What You Can Expect

Course Details

Dates

June 2 - August 8

A 10-week window for your group to work through 5 sessions of content at a pace that makes sense for you.

Registration closes Wednesday, May 21 to allow time for prep work and scheduling your group's sessions.

Time Investment

Your group gets to decide how often you'd like to meet together to work through the course sessions: weekly or bi-weekly.

Depending on how often you are meeting, you should plan to invest approximately 2-4 hours each week for viewing course videos, holding group discussions, and attending coaching calls.

Who Should Participate?

This course is heavily focused on making guided decisions about the structures and roles of those participating in a local foster care collaboration, so you'll need to bring together your existing collaborators to take the course with you.

You'll want to consider who needs to ideally 'be in the room' to give input to these decisions while also not including so many voices that it's difficult to come to a consensus.

We typically find that about 5-7 participants works best.

Want to learn more? If you have more questions or are curious if this course is the right fit for you, sign up here for a brief call with Rachel Jackson, the course coordinator, who can guide you in making the right decision.

Ready to go? If you and your collaborators are ready to get started, you can sign up for the next round of the course below.

You’ve brought people together who are ready and excited to collaborate on behalf of kids and families, and you’ve worked to fill some of the gaps that can make the biggest difference in foster care in your community. You’re seeing growing momentum and some early wins for kids and families! But how do you ensure this collaboration lasts and keeps getting the results you long for?

You may have questions like:

• Do we hire someone to help coordinate all of us and the work that we’re doing? How do we do that and how would we pay them? 
• Do we need to have a formalized leadership team?
• Should we become a 501c3? 
  

The good news is you don’t have to make it up on your own. There are proven practices and principles that can help you avoid common collaboration pitfalls and build a lasting collaboration. But you need a guide to help you have the right conversations to decide on the best structures to sustain your work and do more together for children and families.

Building an Effective Collaboration is designed to help you and your collaborators understand and implement key structures that support healthy, sustainable local collaborative networks, such as assembling a leadership team or launching working groups.