[On screen text: The Road Together.  Care Portal, every church doing a little]

[On screen text: Chris Campbell, Executive Director, 111 Project]

Chris Campbell: The CarePortal is a pretty simple idea. And it's just this idea that we have the 
state over here that has opportunities that they need help with. And we have the church over 
here that wants to help. For a long time, sometimes those entities and by different ideas have 
been separated.

What if we could connect the two? What if we could give them an opportunity to get to know 
one another, to work together, to help families in our community that are in crisis and that 
need help.

[On screen text: Mike Keahbone, Senior Pastor, Cherokee Hills Baptist Church]

Mike Keahbone: For us, we don't have to wade through all ... is this for real? Is it not for real, 
and all that. We can just rush to meet the need because we know that, that vetting has already 
taken place. 

Chris Campbell: Just two years ago, they jump in and now Cherokee Hills in the church that has 
responded to more requests and made a bigger impact, more than any other church in the 
country out of the 14 states that CarePortal's active.

Mike Keahbone: I think it's almost become a race to see who can get to the need first. 

[On screen text: Peketa Hurley, Permanency Planning Worker, DHS]

Peketa Hurley:	 The biggest problem that I saw with Mr. John is transportation. He was having to 
use public transportation to get to his services, his visitations, even though he used public 
transportation, he utilized it very well. 

[On screen text: John.  CarePortal Recipient, DHS Client.  Dad.]

John: They're your kids. I'll get up and ride the bus, five o'clock in the morning, so what? Do you 
want to go see your kids? Do you want your kids back? If not don't go catch the bus because 
you're not going to get them back then. But if you want them, you'll be there at four o'clock in 
the morning, three o'clock in the morning, this is how I see it. 

Peketa Hurley:	 He was just so adamant about getting those services done and it didn't matter 
how he got there or what he did, what ever he needed to do to make sure he was going to get 
his family back. 

Chris Campbell: We see it in casework stories all the time, that every time their kids see their 
dad, they want to give him a hug. They want to run up to dad. They love their dad. And dad 
loves them but the transportation issue or the support issue is really what's holding that 
individual back. 

Mike Keahbone: When I got the news, when Chris called me and told me about this story, when 
I hung up the phone, man I just cried because that's what this is about. And when you can see a 
family change in an instant because of one choice and what you guys may not know is that we 
were five minutes away from donating that car to another charity.

John: Personally, I'd like to say thank you and appreciate it and they helped a lot and to other 
places that can do it, if you can do it, there's people out there like me that really need it. I 
mean, if they're putting in the effort I think they deserve it. I mean because they're working 
hard to do what they got to do to get their kids back among other things in life, so yeah, it 
would help a lot. 

Mike Keahbone: And when they give to something, it's an immediate help. Whether it ... a car is 
a big deal but so is a bed. So is some repair work on a home. So is bedsheets, so is diapers and 
milk and things ... 

Whatever the need might be, whether big or small our people now are looking for a way to get 
involved knowing that every single donation. Every single way that they can participate can be a 
game-changer for somebody.

John: I got six kids, seven now. I mean, when I was going to get the kids back it kind of worried 
me because I knew we was going to have to be on the bus and it's difficult getting all the kids 
on the bus and off, and doing this and that. And then just the time schedule is saving me a lot of 
time and just help me get a lot of stuff done that I need done. I got doctors visits for all the kids 
I got to go to, and all that stuff. So it help, a lot. 

Peketa Hurley: Once we got the vehicle for John it was like so many doors opened for him. He 
was able to get to his job. He was able to get to his services. He was able to take the children to 
school. Take the baby to daycare. It was so just a whole new world for him. 

John: You got to live off the motto, "Positive people do positive things." You got to stay 
positive. I mean, if you stay positive, positive things will happen.

Mike Keahbone: When I shared with our church, the story in particular, and not really knowing 
a name, not knowing a face but just knowing the story, at least a little bit, the details about the 
family. Our church erupted with applause. 

John: I told them when DHS come and get them, I said, "Just don't give up on me. I'm not going 
to give up on you. I'm going to get you all back. Just don't worry about it." 

Mike Keahbone: We don't get the privilege, and I understand privacy and all of that, so we 
don't get the privilege of seeing the faces and meeting the families but to hear the success 
stories and to get messages from different caseworkers to let us know that we're making a 
difference. It's energized our community. It has energized our church and it's energized me as a 
pastor. 

Peketa Hurley: Knowing the job that we do, it's not an easy task, but at the end of the day, 
when our families are back together, it makes us say, "I have done a job well done." 

Mike Keahbone: This is one of those real markers that we can set before us and say, "You know 
what? We're doing something that's worth something." Especially when you see families 
reconcile and reunited. It's beautiful. 
John: How much is too much to get your kids back? There's never enough, they're your kids. 
You got to do what you got to do.