Meet Debby Traffas, OCA Family Outreach Caseworker. Debby Traffas has joined the Orphan Care Alliance team as a Family Outreach Caseworker serving the Salt River Trail region. She brings deep compassion, resilience, and a genuine love for connecting with families. Shaped by both faith and experience, Debby has a God-given ability to recognize unspoken needs. That intuition is supported by …
In no particular order 🙂 here are 26 ways you can get involved with Orphan Care Alliance in 2026: 1. Become a Life Coach: Mentor a youth (12+) with foster care or adoption experience for about an hour a week, helping them build life skills and healthy relationships. 2. Life Coach Events: Teach a class or life skill and/or host …
Meet Amber Walsh, our Family Outreach Coordinator. Amber Walsh has always had a heart for people walking through difficult seasons. Before joining Orphan Care Alliance, she spent years serving in ministries that cared for vulnerable adults. This included women experiencing homelessness, trauma, single motherhood, or even recovering from sex trafficking. But, over time, Amber began noticing a pattern: so …
Double the Impact: Why Your End-of-Year Gift to OCA Matters in 2025 Year-end giving often comes from a place of reflection—what mattered this year, and how can I invest in what lasts? At OCA, we believe that 2025 is the moment to build for tomorrow. By giving now, you do more than support ongoing programs: you help set up transformation …
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What Does Hope Look Like? Sometimes hope looks like a crib delivered to a family with a newborn. Sometimes it looks like a bus pass that helps a grandmother keep her job. Hope can even look like a pair of welding pants for a teenager learning a trade. Recently, OCA Gateway volunteers carried hope into homes across Kentucky and southern …
Five Ways to Help Children Feel Belonging This Holiday Season. The holidays are often described as “the most wonderful time of the year.” For many foster and adoptive families, however, this season can carry mixed emotions. While the rest of the world gears up for cozy traditions and picture-perfect gatherings, children who have walked through loss and instability may find …
From Chaos to Calm: A Five-Week Turnaround Five weeks. That’s all it took for Carson’s* story to begin changing. When he first met his OCA Life Coach, James, in early September 2025, life was turbulent. Carson had been expelled from school after a series of angry outbursts – even throwing chairs when frustration took over. He was confined to his …
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A Birthday that Almost Wasn’t Birthdays are meant to be celebrated. Thanks to OCA Life Coach Sherry Wood, one young woman was able to feel truly seen and loved on her 17th birthday. When plans at her residential fell through, Sherry stepped in to make sure her day didn’t go unnoticed. Sherry arranged a surprise dinner at Roosters. She invited …
