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Catalyst for CARE is now offering satellite trainings at your organization!! You pay one flat rate, and our trainings come to you!

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or contact Jessica Cole at 678-458-4070 or jessica@catalystforcare.org

OUR MISSION: To empower at-risk children, families, and communities and strengthen the people who serve them through collaboration, assistance, research, and education.

COLLABORATION
 .  Funding and facilitating partnerships for improved services for children
 .  Advocacy and information sharing network
 .  Information dissemination on best practices in foster care

ASSISTANCE
 .  Support services for youth who are aging out of foster care and transitioning to independent adulthood. Services include:

o Excellence in Education college scholarships for foster youth
o Lifeline - emergency assistance
o LINC (Leveraging, Impacting, Networking, Championing) mentoring program
o Celebration of Excellence
o Information and referral

         .  Referral Central - online searchable database of services for children and families

RESEARCH
 .  Outcome tracking for youth aging out of foster care
 .  Subject matter identification
 .  Facilitating relationships between researchers and subjects

EDUCATION
 .  Professional Development

• Annual Child Placement Conference
• Catalyst for CARE Annual Conference
• Workshops and Institutes for child welfare professionals
• National Center for Professional Certification :  Certification/credentialing for child welfare professionals

       .  Welfare Watch listserve: Child welfare information newsletters

          (send an email to normer@gahsc.org to subscribe)