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OUR MISSION:

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

Catalyst for CARE works to identify and fill the gaps in services available to kids in foster care ensuring that every child has the resources a caring parent would provide. We do this through:

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

oAnnual GAHSC Conference
oAnnual Child Placement Conference
o Workshops and Institutes for child welfare professionals
o 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)