Greg Clutter

In West Virginia, we can pursue a bold and achievable vision: More Than Enough for every child and family impacted by foster care. That means more than enough foster and kinship families, more than enough support for biological families, and more than enough wraparound care from churches and communities across our state. A vision like this cannot be achieved by individual efforts of organizations or people. It takes effective collaboration and common strategy to achieve such transformation.

But this kind of collaboration doesn’t begin with vision alone—it starts with trust. Because at the end of the day, organizations don’t collaborate, people do.

To help strengthen relationships and build that foundation of trust, we’re providing you with a simple but powerful tool: “Building Trust Together,” a resource created by the More Than Enough Initiative at the Christian Alliance for Orphans (CAFO).

This one-page guide outlines three key commitments that can help churches, agencies, and individuals work together with greater humility, clarity, and unity. Whether you’re launching a new partnership or deepening an existing one, it’s a resource that can help keep the focus on what matters most—our shared mission for West Virginia’s children. To quickly build trust with other members of your collaboration, you can present this document to new partners and collaborators – and use it to shape your commitment to one another.

Let’s keep building—not just programs, but relationships that last—so that More Than Enough becomes reality in every West Virginia community.

Across the country, and especially in West Virginia, the foster care system is often described with the same words: not enough.

Not enough foster families.
Not enough support for biological parents.
Not enough beds, caseworkers, or solutions.

The More Than Enough vision, championed by CAFO (Christian Alliance for Orphans), offers a bold alternative: a future where every community has more than enough for every child and family who needs it.

Achieving More Than Enough isn’t just about adding more programs or recruiting a few more families. It’s about reshaping entire ecosystems of care — mobilizing churches, nonprofits, businesses, and local leaders to work together in deep, coordinated ways.

This approach mirrors the principles of Collective Impact, as outlined in a classic 2011 article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review by the same name. You can download this article below. Collective Impact teaches us that large-scale social change requires:

• A Common Agenda: A shared vision for change — like CAFO’s goal of more than enough families and support for every vulnerable child.
• Shared Measurement: Tracking real progress across communities with consistent, transparent data.
• Mutually Reinforcing Activities: Each organization and church plays a unique role, but all efforts align toward the same outcome.
• Continuous Communication: Building trust through regular communication and collaboration.
• Backbone Support: Dedicated teams that coordinate and sustain the movement across churches, agencies, and organizations.

In foster care, real change won’t happen through isolated efforts. It requires communities to act together — each lifting part of the weight — to complete the “foster care puzzle” of needs around vulnerable children and families.

More Than Enough isn’t just a slogan. It’s an achievable reality when churches, nonprofits, and community members move with unified purpose, clear structure, and shared ownership.

Together, we can replace “not enough” with a new story in the Mountain State: one of hope, healing, and more than enough for every child who needs it.