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A
Family For Every Child
February
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Princess
for a Day 2011
A Family For Every Child presents the
3rd Annual Princess for a Day event on Sunday,
March 6th, from 10am to 5pm at
the Valley River Inn. Girls ages 2-18 are
invited to come and be transformed into
beautiful
princesses!
Every Girl Deserves to be a
Princess!
(If not just for a
day)
Event is FREE for Girls in Foster
Care
Non-Foster Girls $50.00. Your ticket
price will help support the cost of a foster
"Princess" in the community!
Have a royal day with your favorite
Princess!
As girls arrive to the event, they are
ushered into the makeshift salon, sponsored by
local beauty experts, for pampering and
makeovers. Next stop is wardrobe, where each
child receives a princess dress, slippers, a
feather boa, a tiara, and accessories. A
professional photographer takes a picture of
each girl before she is escorted by a teen
volunteer to the ballroom for tea and
refreshments. Every child leaves the event with
a keepsake professional-quality photograph of
herself, her princess outfit, and a goody bag.
Last year, all local television news media were
available for live coverage of the event and
AFFEC received significant newspaper
coverage.
The event is designed to be a gift to
foster children in the community as well as to
raise awareness of foster children in Lane
County.
"One of my foster children (12-year-old)
participated in the princess event. I saw her on
Tuesday of this week and she was still glowing
about it. She proudly showed me the picture of
her taken in her princess dress. I just wanted
to say thank you to all who had a hand in this
event. It was wonderful to see this child, who
has experienced so much negativity in her life,
get to be pampered and encouraged by caring
adults."
- Gail, Lane Branch
caseworker
If you are interested in helping and/or
donating dresses or accessories, contact
Christy: christy@afamilyforeverychild.org
Get
Involved! This is a Must for Any
Child!
To Register for the Event, CLICK HERE
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Camp
to Belong Northwest
We
are volunteers that are dedicated to reuniting
brothers and sisters in Oregon who are placed in
separate foster care, kinship care, and adoptive
home placements for events of fun, emotional
empowerment, and sibling connection to create
lifetime memories.
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There are almost 600,000 children in foster care
across the United States. In Oregon, over 7,500
children reside in foster
care.
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65-75% of children entering the foster care
system have at least one sibling they are
separated from.
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Brothers and Sisters need each other for
emotional strength and
connection.
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On average, foster youth spend less than 4 hours
per month with their
siblings.
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We have proudly served over 450 Oregon youth
since Camp To Belong came to our state!
Save
the Date for our Next Event, Bids for
Sibs!
Saturday
April 9th, 2011 @ Stoller Vineyards 6:00pm -
9:30pm
Join
us and bid on over 100 fabulous
items....
Wonderful
family packages!
Trips
and great
experiences
And
much, much more...
Purchase
Tickets online @ http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=hq4lu8bab&et=1104355539320&s=6305&e=001xInHaa9eHndCNkZJL64dBAcn05AuRigfB-dOOMFjgU2UczNIPU5aSaMYbytlHcLNPvpUxRWYnA3vMAbv9Fq1oymza3b2aeL_CKlQoVE7wmVicK9DvQZeuQ==
Don't
miss out on this great opportunity to make a
difference in a child's
life!
To
learn more about CTB-NW or to volunteer, please
contact:
Karyn
Schimmels
Program
Director
(971)
219-4434
karyn@camptobelong.org
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A
Special Note from 13-Year-Old
Caleb
Caleb
is a bright and creative 13-year-old boy who is
legally free for adoption. He has a gift for
language and an extensive vocabulary. Caleb loves
history and can recall historical facts at the
drop of a hat. Caleb thrives on physical
involvement and loves to ride his bike and
scooter. He enjoys reading, drawing, playing video
games, swimming, camping, and fantasy play such as
sword fighting or "sparing." He also has a
beautiful singing voice, which should be
encouraged. Caleb interacts well overall with
adults but struggles in relationships with peers.
He has a unique sense of humor and can be very
engaging.
Caleb
is very sensitive to transitions and loss. He has
an enormous amount of potential and needs to be
encouraged and nurtured. It will be important for
his adoptive family to understand the impact that
early neglect, lack of safety, and abuse can have
on a child's sense of well being and on his
emotional and behavioral development. For Caleb's
adoptive family to give him the best chance for
success, he really needs to be an only child or
the youngest sibling of much older kids who are
emotionally healthy and possess good social
skills. Caleb greatly appreciates recognition,
caring, personal attention, and frequent
encouragement. He functions best with lots of
structure with a consistent daily routine. He is a
very organized child and his environment needs to
be as well. He is ready for an active, caring
family to claim him. His adoptive parents can show
their love and support to Caleb by being willing
to participate with him in family counseling
during his transition into his adoptive
home.
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Thank
You to Gateway Mall and Haugen Advertising and
Graphics for New Venue
Images
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Volunteer
Needs
Our mission is to find loving, permanent
families for waiting foster children. As a
non-profit our work takes hundreds of volunteer
hours, without these amazing people our work
would not be a success! We value each and
every one of our volunteers and cannot thank you
enough for your thoughtful
consideration.
Submission Team:
We send nearly 700 home studies each
month to various caseworkers for families who
are waiting to be selected. To do this it
takes many volunteer hours from people who can
pay attention to detail and are able to email
and attach files. This position takes
someone who is able to come to our office and
can range anywhere from 3 to 20 hours a week,
depending on your availability. While this
work takes a lot of time, it is highly
rewarding, especially when you get to see a
family chosen for a
child!
Office
Assistance:
We are in need of a few people who can
assist with filing, answering phones, checking
references and other various tasks. All
training will be provided. This person
would ideally be able to volunteer 2 - 5 hours
per week.
Venue Volunteers:
Another tool we use for recruiting for
children is our local venues. You may have
seen these around the area (if you reside in
Oregon). We display photos of available and
waiting children with bio information in
restaurants, doctors and dentist's offices,
airports, grocery stores and the like. We
are currently in need of several venue
volunteers in the Eugene and surrounding
area. All photos and needs are supplied by
our organization. This basically consists
of picking up your new photos, going to the
venue and swapping them out with the
old.
Foster Support Meeting Volunteer:
Twice a month we hold meetings at Boys
and Girls Aide for current foster
families. We would love to have one or two
volunteers that would commit to spending time
with the kids while their foster parents are in
support meetings. It would be ideal to have
college age volunteers who are willing to play
with and support these kids. The meetings
are generally two hours and are on every other
Thursday
evening.
Volunteer Family Adoption
Specialists:
We have a Matching Assistance Program
that partners with families that are currently
in the adoption process. This program is
geared towards families who have not yet had a
placement and have been in the process for a
year or longer. The goal of this program
and the task of the Family Adoption Specialist
is to walk alongside families in their
journey. Give them feedback on their family
profile page, perform child searches for them,
correspond with caseworkers and their behalf and
surround them with resources and
encouragement. While this may sound as a
though it's a difficult position please note
that all training is provided by our
organization and requires only that you are
consistent and compassionate. If you excel
in communicating, following up and have the
capacity to give 5 hours a week per family, we
would love to have you. We ask for a 6
month commitment as families need as much
consistency as
possible.
Child Listing
Specialists:
We are currently working to partner with
several other states and their photo listing
agencies to list more children on our public and
non-public sites. We are currently in need
of several volunteers who would be willing to
help list children in our database and on our
sites. While this may sound as though it's
a difficult task, all training is provided and
only requires an ability to pay attention to
detail. Any number of hours would be great
for this position.
Please visit our website and fill
out the volunteer forms or
contact:
Bethany
Arnold
Volunteer/Intern
Coordinator
541-343-2856
Bethany@afamilyforeverychild.org
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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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