Abraham Blue was just a kid running around grabbing snacks while his parents sat in Parent Café circles at Vision for Children at Risk in St. Louis. Twelve years later, he's facilitating youth Cafés of his own. This is how the Café model works across generations.

Eighteen months of conversations, World Cafés, and Appreciative Inquiry led to our 2020-2025 strategic plan that charts BSF's next chapter and makes youth development a core programmatic priority for the first time. Here's how our process of Discovery, Dreaming, and Designing plan together and what it means for the organization.

She walked in ready to lead youth to their greatness, and they glared back at her. What followed over the next several months was one of the most honest lessons in humility, presence, and what love actually looks like when you're working with young people who have every reason not to trust you.

"You are only as sick as your secrets." BSF's Kathryn Leigh Goetz explores what it means to truly listen to yourself and why Cafés create the conditions for the kind of honesty that leads to real change.