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Family Reunification Leaders Workshop

CHANGING OUR MODELS OF CARE IN A CHANGING WORLD

Nairobi, Kenya | August 19-23, 2019

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Empowering you to reunite children

Safely

Develop a child-centered approach for safe and effective family reunification with proven tools and training

Successfully

Learn from experienced mentors and coaches and gain knowledge, skills, and tools to increase your impact and funding

Sustainably

Get started right away with an implementation plan and toolkit to build a program that will grow and scale over time

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All that has been done through the Agape Model Workshop is going to change the situation of children in Kenya. We need this model in all our counties. The good thing is that you have made this Workshop so simple and real that we are empowered to do the work.

CARREN OGOTI
Senior Assistant Director, Head of Section, AFC and Counter Trafficking in Persons, Kenya

After attending the Agape Model Workshop we immediately knew family reunification was the direction we were to take. After our training, we immediately began making home visits. We have already begun returning children home.

SYDNEY KINNEAR
Equipping People ~ Changing Lives, Kenya

By practitioners, for practitioners.

Agape Children’s Ministry began a traditional orphanage, faithfully caring for the same hundred of children year after year. When they discovered most had local biological families they belong in, they changed everything to get them safely, permanently home.
Increase Your Impact
Grow Your Organization
The Agape Model

Increase your impact

After 10 years of trial and error, Agape developed a successful way to get children back into families permanently, with remarkable long-term success.

Learn more about the Agape Model.

Grow your organization

See how shifting their model produced growth in Agape's staff, donor base and donations, while lowering the monthly operating cost per child.

The Agape Model in action

Agape's groundbreaking approach rescues children from dangerous situations, equipping them mentally, emotionally, and spiritually for long-term success at home with their families.

Watch how reunification works:
Rescue
Rehabilitation
Reintegration
Family Reunification: Misconceptions

Learn more about the Agape Model.

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Workshop Leaders

Hellen Achieng

Senior Consultant
Agape Children’s Ministry

Bio
Hellen managed our startup of Agape Girls ministry and later served as the counselling manager and pioneered Agape’s trauma counselling program. Today she serves as a Sr. Consultant to bring trauma counselling and trauma informed care practices to emerging Agape Network Partners throughout Kenya.

Jonathan Dowell

Director of Expansion
Agape Children’s Ministry

Bio
Jonathan serves as the Director of Expansion for Agape Children’s Ministry. In this role, he is responsible for planting new Agape locations, training & consulting with outside organizations, and sharing The Agape Model with the broader community. Prior to this, Jonathan worked 10+ years in the IT industry as an engineer, IT Project Manager, and in Business Process Management.

Winfred Otieno

Manager of Rehabilitation
Agape Kitale Campus

Bio
Winfred serves as the Manager of Rehabilitation in the Agape Kitale Campus. Winfred has served as a teacher and manager in almost every department on campus and has intimate knowledge of how the Agape Model works on the ground. She has served in our Kisumu campus and then moved to the Kitale Campus to help with the startup of Agape Kitale as key mentor and leader.

chris page

Kenya Field Director
Agape Children’s Ministry

Bio
Chris serves as the Kenya Field Director for Agape Children’s Ministry. In this role, Chris leads and disciples 125 missionaries and employees and the management of Agape’s operations in two cities. Prior to ministry with Agape, Chris served in a variety of leadership and management roles as an officer in the US Army.

And
Special Guests

Francis chan

Author of Crazy Love
Pastor, Teacher & Bestselling Author

Bio

Francis was founding pastor of Cornerstone Church in Simi Valley, California. In 2010, he left Cornerstone to work directly in mission with the poor locally and internationally. He is also Founder and Chancellor of Eternity Bible College, and Board member of Children’s Hunger Fund and World Impact. Francis’s books Crazy Love and Forgotten God were immediate bestsellers, with Francis giving all Crazy Love author royalties to the Isaiah 58 Fund.

Beth Bradford

Technical Director
Changing the Way We Care

Bio
Beth is an international child protection consultant with twenty-five years of experience. She is currently the Technical Director for Changing the Way We Care. Her work with both government and non-government partners has focused on child protection and care systems development. More specifically, Beth’s work has focused on integrated case management, social work practice, deinstitutionalization and alternative care, holistic early childhood development, and family strengthening. Beth has experience in qualitative evaluation, program design and management, designing standards and guidance, and curriculum development and training.

Peter Muthui

Child in Family Focus
Director – Administration

Bio

Peter serves as a consultant at the orphanage he grew up in and is a member of the Kenya Society of Care Leavers advisory team. He is a founding partner and Director at Child in Family Focus – Kenya; a nonprofit organization that champions family based care for orphaned and vulnerable children through care reform. This includes advocacy, de-institutionalization and monitoring of governance in child care and protection matters in the country.

Watch his story here

Workshop
Schedule

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Workshop
Schedule

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day 1

  • Introduction to the Agape Model
  • Evidence supporting family reunification
  • Dinner and mentor assigned

day 2

  • Trauma Informed Care Training
  • Simulated Case Study

day 3

  • The family reunification process
  • Rotating Round Table work sessions
  • Build your own model

day 4

  • Building a staffing plan
  • Family Reunification Toolkit
  • Developing a donor retention and growth strategy
  • Helping the child’s family with needs without enabling

day 5

  • Final Conversion Plan review with mentor
  • Graduation

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This five day workshop has been generously provided by a collaborative network of leaders behind the 1MILLIONHOME campaign.

Please note that seating is limited and will be reserved for leaders and decision makers of organizations. Workshop details, including venue and recommended lodging, will be sent to registered participants. We look forward to seeing you there!


If you want to go fast, run alone.
If you want to go far, run together.

Together, we can change the way we care

Watch highlights from January 2019 Workshop in Kisumu, Kenya

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