Overview
Have you heard about CarePortal and are wondering how your ministry organization might be able to get more involved? Consider becoming a CarePortal implementing partner and bring this platform to your community and the network of churches, agencies, schools, and community partners you work with!
Note: This information is also available in a printable PDF flier
What Real Users Are Saying
1. Increases church engagement in your community
"The appeal for a potential Implementing Partner is an amazing technology platform that connects vetted needs with people in the community that care. Children can be helped every single day. Everyone can do something and CarePortal allows this to happen."
– Mike Worley, Beautiful Redemption (CO)
2. Helps streamline your volunteer service opportunities
"When we started with CarePortal it was simply an available technology tool which solved a challenge we had in serving the social workers. We had several manual processes to log, track, and follow-up when social workers asked for items which would benefit the families they served. Very quickly we realized CarePortal was so much more. It was an opportunity to connect the social workers and families we were serving with the local church. It also provided another very easy low entry for churches into the foster care space."
– Paul Van Woudenberg, Connect South Central (TN)
3. Brings awareness of the needs in your community to local churches
"CarePortal appealed to Hands of Hope because we recognize the Department of Child Services is out in the community, experiencing the deepest needs of families and children. However, there was no real way to make those needs known or have them met through the community. CarePortal is such an easy, efficient, kind way to allow the community, through the local church, to step in to show hope and love in such tangible ways to let people know they are not walking through these hard places alone. In addition, it allows for a system of vetting the needs and then also tracking the impact. Win-win-win!"
– Suzy Roth, Hands of Hope (IN)
4. Tracking tool for your ministry’s effectiveness
"CarePortal has allowed us to scale. We recognize that the church is doing amazing things in the community, but it is not always quantified to the local government. CarePortal has allowed us to capture some of that activity to show the value. We know it is just the tip of the iceberg but what it shows is there is great substance to the faith community's work that cannot be ignored."
– Chris Campbell, 111 Project (OK)
5. Improves your relationship with other child-serving organizations in your community
"CarePortal has been a game-changer for PHFS as we have worked to develop a solid relationship with our local Department of Social Services staff. Vision 30, our current driving force, was developed before hearing about CarePortal. Our goal is that by 2030, every child in our region will be safe in their own family or with caregivers who are supported by a local faith community. We knew that the church was the answer – that meaningful relationships are what bring families from unhealthy to healthy – but we did not know how to connect them. CarePortal has been our answer.
"Now DSS officials who were confused about our vision find CarePortal and PHFS an essential part of what they do and are so grateful for this gift that we have given them. It has allowed us to enter a whole new realm of relationship with them."
– Claudia Fletcher, Patrick Henry Family Services (VA)
6. Deepens the relationships you have with existing church partners
"Serving as an IP has been beneficial to help our churches engage with us by being able to provide hands-on support for the work we do. We have been able to go deeper into a conversation about mission and how we jointly carry that out in the lives of the kids and families we serve. When churches and their members become involved in CarePortal and receive local requests that contain real stories in real-time, they do so much more than communicating generally to their members about how the year went. The beauty of CarePortal is that we have seen our church partners take hold of the call to become a part of the stories of healing for these families."
– Tracy Landon, Agape (TN)
7. Streamlines communication about community needs coming to your ministry
"Our ministry was well known in our region and was often seen as the "go to" ministry for material needs for foster/adoptive families. As the ministry grew so did the number of requests. Many times, these requests would get delayed due to lack of resources, or the email was sent to the wrong person internally, or the people we would often go to for delivery assistance were tapped out. CarePortal provided us with a shift from feeling burdened trying to meet all the needs that we received requests for to being able to bless families and churches with a way to connect to one another."
– Steve Poissant, Every Child (NY)
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