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A
Family for Every Child August
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Justin and
Lowla Rain
Thank
you to those below that made all the difference in
finding these children a
family!
Social
Worker: Pauline Duke
Photographer:
Meg Borders
Permanency Supervisor: Laurie
Mayer |
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Raven
Thank
you to those below that made all the difference in
finding Raven a
family!
Permanency
Supervisor: Laurie
Mayer |
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Erwin
Thank
you to those below that helped Erwin find a
family!
Social
worker: Deborah
Warren-Collins
Permanency
Supervisor: Lauire Mayer
Special
Recruiter: Bryna
Desper
Photographer: Yuen
Lui Studios |
Please Vote for
Us!
A
Family For Every Child has just joined a
national grant Competition to help us help more
children find forever families. We have
submitted a grant through the Pepsi Refresh
Project, and your votes determine the winners.
You
can vote at:
refresheverything.com/foreverfamilies and by
texting 101552 to 73774(pepsi) And you can vote
twice (once online and once by text) each day
all month long.
Anyone
13 and older can vote, so please help us spread
the word. Thanks
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Winter
Wonderland Gala Dinner &
Auction
Save
the date: November
10th
Place:
Valley River Inn
Time:
5:30pm social hour
$100
Per Person
$1,000
Per Table (10)
Event
Chairs:
Diana
Bray, Roxy Ragozzino, Melissa
Stock
Auctioneer:
Sid
Voorhees
Master
of Ceremonies:
Bill
Barrett
Sponsorship
Opportunities
Available
For
more information or to RSVP,
contact:
541-343-2856
info@afamilyforeverychild.org
Kassey
Carter-Young, Director of
Development
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Volunteer Roles
Available
In our
short but fast growth, we have seen the impact a
few dedicated people can make. Our most powerful
tool is our website. Through technology we
have been able to find over 500 homes for
children waiting in foster
care.
We
are an organization that runs on volunteers, we
are in need of Technically savoy
volunteers.
Web
Volunteer: (8-20
hours a week) Help us build our many web sites
and expand our tools to help children find
homes. You will need to know HTML and CSS.
We need you!
Audio
Web Program:
Interviewing Case workers about kids on the
phone, uploading to the web for kids
pages.
Matching
Assistance Program:
A program geared to help parents in the adoption
process needs the following Web
help.
Web
Listing:
(Best if done an hour a
day. Possibly less, needs regular
attention) Adding children into our web
database, editing as a child's status changes,
updating picture, adding media links etc.
Checking monthly to keep children updated on the
web.
Web
Page/Writing:
(Any available time) Research, write and compile
info for us to link and paste on our Web pages,
especially those on the login site that have
"coming soon" on them.
Web
Process:
(Any available time) Signing on to our new login
site and acting as a family (writing script and
suggestions that will help our site be more user
friendly for families). Help create web forms
and other ways to assist families. Help develop
RSS feed tools, Twitter feeds and other ways
families can get immediate information on
children they are interested in
adopting.
Other
web/technology volunteers
needed:
Webinar
Development:
We have a number of Webinar programs we would
like designed for various programs. We provide
the program and
information.
Web
Writing:
(Any available time) Need written, research and
collection of information for our web pages and
family
resources.
Pick
subjects that are interesting to you, then
do research and write articles for our various
websites about those topics. Someone else's
article we can only link to (copyright), but if
it is original authorship (they write the
article in their own words from at least 3
sources), we can publish it in its entirety.
Preferably, we would get a couple of articles a
week for each of the 3 websites. If you would
like more information on possible
topics/guidelines, contact
below.
Please
contact us at A Family For Every child to get
involved in our mission and to join our team.
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Family Finding
Volunteer Training
Becoming a Family finder is a fulfilling
and rewarding experience. Help children remain
connected with their biological families. All
trainings are held on Saturday and will be
at the 880 Beltline location. From 9am-Noon. The
next training is on August 14th.
Learn about the six steps of the Family
Finding process and how just a few hours a week
can have a lasting impact on the children we
serve.
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Matching Assistance Program
Do you want to be "found" for a waiting
child?
Every day children's case workers search
for suitable homes for hundreds of foster kids
nationwide. In this search, they are looking at
parenting qualifications such as:
- Parent Training and
Education
- Ability to accommodate special
needs
- Family background and
situation
Having your profile, narrative, home
study, and possibly a video ready for a
searching case worker greatly increases the
chance that you will be selected as a potential
family for a child.
High-tech equipment isn't
needed to provide this information to
us. Regular family photos can be taken with
an ordinary digital camera and uploaded via the
internet to the AFFEC website. The profile
consists of information about how to reach you,
your situation, and your parenting experiences.
Matching Assistance helps support
families during their journey to adoption. For
more info Click
Here | |
Matching Assistance Program Volunteers
Needed
These positions can be done from
anywhere and you don't need to be a
volunteer in our area. We will have you
work directly with our volunteer coordinator and
the Matching Assistance Director.
Child Outreach - Contacting and building
relationships with other photo listings to try
and link each other. Photo list their kids
and build partnerships to help recruit for
more kids.
Program Outreach - Send our flyers,
emails, materials to promote the Matching
Assistance Program. Link partner sites, share
our message about the Program with
other agencies, adoption workers, parent
groups and potential
parents.
Targeted Email Outreach for families of
specific children in urgent need of placement -
Several hours a week. Once you do an email,
there will be a few hours spent responding and
submitting on children for potential families.
Each email is approx. 1 hour to prepare and 2
hours to respond.
This is our most important
role, the more you do it the better and faster
you will get. It involves really understanding
and using our database. We get "urgent" requests
from caseworkers for placement on children (this
we see as an opportunity for us to get families
in front of
caseworkers).
We go into our data base of over 5000
families, do a search on families that would be
a good fit for these children (2-parent, open to
older kids, a certain age group, race etc..),
then we send an email with the child's info and
ask if they would consider this child. Once
we submit their study on them we
then send their studies to the
caseworker. We often get 20+ families in
24 hours.
Research Volunteer - Researching
training, articles, support, state-by-state info
for our web, family support materials and
notebooks, newsletters
etc.
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How can you
contact A Family For Every
Child?
Call,
email, or visit us online or in
person!
 880
Beltline Rd.
Springfield Oregon
97477
office
- 541-343-2856
toll
free - 877-343-2856
fax
- 541-343-2866
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Ruvim
Thank
you to those below that helped Ruvim find a
family!
Social
Worker: Nacole
Patterson
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Traveonte
Thank
you to those below that helped Traveonte find a
family!
Social
Worker: Bo Xayavong
Permanency
Supervisor: Laurie Mayer
Photographer:
Kelli
Hodges |
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Skyler
Thank
you to those below that helped Skyler find a
family!
Caseworker: Linda
Cline
Special
Recruiter: Valerie Pitcher
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We
have some ideas of how we would like to use our social
media to do fundraising and need someone that has
experience or an interest to learn to help us.
If
you think this position may fit you, go for it!
Contact
AFFEC today! |
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Please
remember AFFEC when you are disregarding old
computers, we'll take them!
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Upcoming
Sessions:
August
12th, 2010 - Speaker will be Christy sharing about the
Parent/Child
relationships
September
9th, 2010 - Speaker from DHS sharing about CANS
Assessment and Adoption
Subsidy
September
23rd, 2010 - Youth Panel sharing their stories - youth
from foster care, adopted youth, youth who have
aged-out
When:
2nd and 4th Thursdays of each
month
Time:
5:30-7:30pm
Where:
Boys and Girls Club of Emerald
Valley
1545 W 22nd Ave
Eugene, OR
97405
Activities
for Children available
Please
RSVP to: lisa@afamilyforeverychild.org
Click
below for a great webinar on adoption!
Check
out our resource page:
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AFFEC
Media
AFFEC is on Facebook, Myspace, and more. Click
on the links!
AFFEC Blog: Please contribute your
thoughts!
Our Mentor Program now has a discussion
group:
Perhaps you are addicted to Social Media.
Perhaps you would like to get involved. We could use
you!
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Our
Partners:
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Donate
to AFFEC
Would you like to contribute to AFFEC's cause
for helping children? Any amount can have a lasting
impact on a child. Click
below:
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