Get Involved

We Get Churches Engaged and Working Together

We help you and your church share the love of Christ with all those impacted by foster care, adoption or kinship care

WE ARE HERE TO HELP!

Does the foster care system seem confusing?
Do you think the only way individuals in your church can serve is by fostering or adopting?
Do you know families in your church that are fostering, serving as kinship caregivers or have adopted?
Do you wish you knew how to best support them?

Christians share a call to serve abused and neglected children.

We are here to help!

Many churches are already serving families in this space. We help church leaders understand the complexities of the system and connect them with resources to help their families.

Most churches have a heart and desire to serve hurting children and families but are largely unaware of the extent of the crisis and the many ways they can serve.

THE EXPERIENCED SUPPORT YOU NEED

Alliance Church Engagement Specialists

Our Church Engagement Team walks alongside church partners

Together, we identify strategic ways to mobilize individuals and the church body to serve in impactful ways. We help you and your church share the love of Christ with all those impacted by foster care, adoption or kinship care.

Don’t miss this opportunity to partner with an experienced ministry leader who understands the unique challenges of building ministry and serving in this space.

ATTEND AN ALLIANCE GATHERING

CALLING ALL SAN ANTONIO & SURROUNDING AREA MINISTRY LEADERS

You are invited to an Alliance Gathering where we engage and equip ministry leaders who share the love of Christ with those impacted by foster care, adoption or kinship care.

HOW WE HELP

The Alliance Strategy

Step 1: Get to know your church

Work together to identify your piece or pieces

Step 2: Build a custom strategy for your church

Identify those in your church who can lead your piece

Step 3: Roll out the opportunities

Ongoing support as you serve those impacted by foster care, adoption or kinship care

BUILD THE CORE

Your Church Engagement Specialist will help you Identify families and individuals in your church that are actively serving or impacted by the foster care system. Churches typically discover individuals that can serve as lay leaders of your church’s efforts in this space. For those impacted by the foster care system, gathering your Core allows you to uncover unmet needs and serve your church family.

EMPOWERING CHURCHES FOR THE CORE

1. DISCOVER YOUR CORE
Find out which families in your church and/or community are actively involved in foster care and adoption via email, social media, church bulletins, announcements and community groups.

2. GATHER YOUR CORE
Start with an initial meeting and begin to identify the experiences and needs of one another. Use this meeting to begin forming a database of families involved in direct care as well as those with the desire to serve and assist.

3. SERVE YOUR CORE
Meet the needs of current foster, adoptive and kinship families. Many churches do meal trains, meet tangible needs, prayer, babysitters, lawn care or needed home projects.

GROW THE CROWD

Your Church Engagement Specialist will help you craft unique opportunities to share with your church family the current foster care crisis and ways they can serve both for families in the church and families in the community. Churches often share about the crisis from the stage and host informational meetings to help people find their piece to play.

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1. ACTIVATE YOUR CROWD
Your Church Engagement Specialist will help you share the crisis with your whole church family.

2. GATHER THE CROWD
We help your church do this in a variety of ways through sermons, info meetings, small group presentations, videos and panel interviews.

3. CROWD IN ACTION
Your church family can serve their fellow families in the church through lawn care, transportation, house cleaning, car maintenance, and providing meals and groceries.

SERVE THE FOSTER, ADOPTIVE, KINSHIP COMMUNITY

Your Church Engagement Specialist will connect you with dozens of ways your church collectively and in small groups can serve the foster, adoptive and kinship community that is not connected with a church. You get to take Christ’s love to hurting individuals and families near your church.

A COMMUNITY THAT CARES

1. DISCOVER THE COMMUNITY NEED
Your Church Engagement Specialist will help your leadership identify needs in the community near your church and any training or equipping needed to start serving.

2. GATHER THE COMMUNITY
The Alliance has a variety of programs, projects and connections with local non-profits to help your church mobilize and serve the community. The Alliance can host trainings for those interested in serving: Trauma informed care training, Care Portal Response Team Training.

3. COMMUNITY-WIDE SUPPORT
Many opportunities exist. The key is working with your Church Engagement Specialist to focus ones that fit your church. Some options include: Care Portal Response Team, Parent’s Night Out, Caseworker Kits, Caring for Caseworkers, and opportunities with our collaborative partners such as Vault, SA Hope Center, Texas Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and many more.

JOIN THE MOVEMENT

Together we can solve the problem through prevention, provision and protection, we can help break the foster care crisis cycle.

Since 2016

It takes dozens of pieces to bring healing to children and families. No one church, person, or family can fill all of the roles needed. It requires an Alliance of everyone playing their piece to bring restoration and healing to families.

DISCOVER WAYS YOU CAN SERVE

Download our FREE eBook

Through our experiences, we’ve discovered which organizations are essential in providing support and resources to children, youth and families impacted by the foster care system.

Our goal with this guide is to help you find the right fit for your passion and skill set so that you can make a meaningful impact in the lives of children and families in need.

Testimonials

We are grateful for the opportunity to partner with Alliance, and we have learned so much about the many needs and the ways that our congregation can support foster families in our community. We have spearheaded some big projects in an effort to help families in need and Alliance is right there walking alongside us every step of the way! We look forward to our continued partnership working towards the goal of ending the foster care crisis in our county.

Jennifer and her team have been thoughtful, collaborative partners. Thanks to their advocacy, THRU Project has connected with caring individuals throughout the San Antonio region who felt called to serve as mentors for foster youth. Today we’re working together to provide trauma-informed job opportunities to teens and young adults with lived experience in foster care

The Alliance has empowered and inspired our team with creative ways to support kids in crisis. We don’t just have a support group now, but we have implemented multiple ways of getting everyone involved.

Divinity Family Services is grateful for the partnership with the Alliance. As a child placing agency that is dedicated to serving kinship families, we cannot do it alone. The Alliance has come alongside to provide much needed support in many unique ways. At times a special project is needed like adding a fence so a family would meet the minimum standards for licensing, which allowed a sibling group to be adopted together. The Babysitter Certification program, is a huge favorite of our families. Thank you, STAFO for all you do!

Connect with an Alliance Engagement Specialist

Play your “piece” and contact us today!

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Jocelyn Wilson

Shannon Traver

Alex Wallendorff

Brittany Flournoy