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
