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Annual
Event Volunteers Needed
You are invited to our first annual event
planning meeting!
When: May 25
Where: The Oregon Electric
Station
When: 12:00 noon
Please email me
if you would like to be to attend this meeting to
hear more. It's a great chance to
hear about opportunities, meet new friends, and
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Child
Listing Volunteer
We are currently working to partner with
photo listing
agencies from other states to
list more children on our
websites.
We need volunteers who can help list these
children in our database and on our sites. All
training is provided.
If you can pay attention to detail, this
is the job for you! Any number of hours a
week would be great! |
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Submissions
Department Volunteer
We have a Submissions Department that
makes sure home studies are sent out on a daily
basis.
This job involves good data
entry skills, attention to detail, and ability to
follow up with correspondence and requests.
We are looking for someone who can come in
5-10 hours a week. All training will be
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Photography
Coordinator Assistant
Our Heart Gallery needs someone who can
come in 5-10 hours a month and help coordinate our
venue photo
packets. You would also make
contacts with photographers and organize
as
needed.
Let us know if this might be for you.
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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 on 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
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Web
Volunteers
Web
savvy volunteers needed.
Some
onsite work is required to learn about the
projects.
Ability
to make useful contributions to ongoing projects
is essential.
We
are in the Gateway area of
Springfield.
We
have a website which needs help from people with
the following skillset:
HTML/CSS/PHP
/MySQLi/Javascript.
If
you have 8 to 20 hours a week in which you can
lend a hand, please let us
know.
Scott
Corcoran
Web
Coordinator
(541)-343-2856 |
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Administrative
Assistant Volunteer
Do you have office and data entry skills?
Our Volunteer
Coordinator needs someone to
help with the volunteer
process. We also have
special data entry projects that are creative and
not hard to do.
Flexible hours based on your
availability. |
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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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Questions?
Feel
free to call at 541-343-2856 or email:
info@afamilyforeverychild.org
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Are
you an advocate for a foster
child?
An
adovcate can be a social worker, permanency
worker, recruiter, CASA or any person that plays a
role in improving the life of a foster
child.
Good
news! A Family For Every Child wants to help you.
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Recruiters
& Agencies
We
are now available to agencies across the country
to photo list (public or privately) your waiting
children on our websites! AFFEC will be
moving to gain additional national exposure on our
new website. For further
information:
christy@afamilyforeverychild.org
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Social
Workers: See how we can help match your
kids
Quick
photo listing of kids already listed
elsewhere
Have
you already listed your kids and just want to take
advantage of listing with A Family For Every
Child? We can do that! Just fill out this quick
request to
cross-list.
A
Family For Every Child recruits permanent homes
for many foster kids from many different states.
We receive emails and profiles on a weekly basis
from social workers, Wendy's recruiters, and
permanency supervisors.
The
form below was created to assist in registration
of waiting children. We have several child listing
websites. There are public websites and a login
private site for kids that cannot be seen on the
public site. With this registration, the child can
be online within 24 hours. Please enter extra
information in the case worker notes section.
These notes are not for public viewing, but case
worker notes are shared with home studied families
to provide you with a better match for your child.
They
can include the details of what qualities a
successful adoptive family might possess for the
child you are trying to match. They might
be two parents, no younger children, no
animals, current issues/barriers, area of the
country preferred....etc. Think broad and you can
always rule out as you go. We work hard to provide
only studies worth your time. If a child is able
to be placed out of the state, it opens the door
for many more home studies.
We
also have success on the web with in-state
placements. If you would like your child on one of
our sites, or partner sites, please fill in and/or
attach any current bio and images you may have.
Good pictures are very important. If you are in
need of professional images we may be able to
connect you to one of our many volunteer
professional photographers.
As
you move through the form, it should direct you
and answer some of the questions you may
have. If you need assistance, please
call our office at 541-343-2856, or
email
info@afamilyforeverychild.org
or
christy@afamilyforeverychild.org.
If
you would like to publicly or privately list a
child, click this
form.
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Child/Sibling
Group Family Searches
At the link below you
will find a "Search" form that you can fill out.
We will then search our database of over 5000
families for you. We ask that you give us 3-4
business days to do so. Once you have filled out
the form below we will enter this information in
our database, pull up families that fit this
criteria and develop a targeted template and email
that will go out to as many as 500 families at a
time. Images are very important, so please do your
best to supply one, it will make a
difference.
Link to
Form
We
ask for your contact information as we will direct
the families to you if they are interested. We do
our best to use the information you give us to
give "you" the families you think will be
successful for your child/children. Please be as
open as you can about area. If a child has to
move, a two hour move may be as dramatic as
one across the country. When open to a bigger
area, you are likely to get a better skilled, more
specific group for your
children.
If
you have any questions, contact:
christy@afamilyforeverychild.org
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Professional
Bulletin Photos
Caseworkers-Recruiters-CASA's
Knowing
how important a good photo is to recruitment,
AFFEC is now offering to take professional photos
for child bulletins. We are committed to
a two week turn around (although caseworker
or foster parent schedules may make this more
difficult).
We
have developed our statewide (and working on our
nationwide) list of photographers, that can,
within a week of our call, photograph a child or
sibling group. Within a week we will email the
.jpg images to caseworkers. We then store all
images for further recruitment tools if requested
by the caseworker. For futher information, click
the link below.
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Heart
Gallery
Heart Gallery Application -
The
Heart Gallery exhibits portraits to raise
awareness of the needs of Oregon and Washington.
They wait and hope for their own adoptive family,
mentor, or court appointed special advocate (CASA)
to love and protect them. Professional
photographers volunteer to take compelling
portraits showcased in the Heart Galleries. These
beautifully framed and matted portraits then get
displayed along with the children's biographies in
various venues.
On
average, we receive over 50 inquiries per week
about these children. DHS foster/adoption
orientation class size, adoption inquiries, and
general applicants to DHS have more than doubled
since the inception of the Heart Gallery.
For
more information on what we have to offer you and
your children,
click
here
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Mentor
Program
Mission
Statement
The
mission of the Heart Gallery Mentor Program is to
bring enthusiastic, dedicated, caring adult
members of our community and unite them with youth
in foster care. To provide someone who can be a
friend, who will encourage and support them
through the various transitions in their life. To
help instill independence, confidence and everyday
life skills they will
need.
Program
Information
The
Heart Gallery Mentor program was created to
provide one-on-one mentoring relationships for
youth who are living in foster care. Youth are
matched with an adult volunteer mentor who has
similar interests (which allows them
to spend time together and form a
friendship). We ask that the mentor spend
approximately 10 hours a month with the youth
doing things like: visiting parks, sports
activities, watching a movie, doing homework, or
talking about what life has to offer the child.
These are just examples; many more options
available.
The
mentor and the mentee will decide what activities
to do together to build a lasting bond. The
mentoring program is designed to bring stable,
long-term relational support to foster youth.
Mentoring relationships can provide stable
emotional support, increase self-sufficiency and
expose foster youth to new cultures and
experiences, thus broadening their vision of "what
could be" in their lives.
For
additional information such as application and
matching process,
click
here.
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What
is Family Finding?
The
Family Finding model is a group of methods and
strategies to locate and engage relatives of
children living in out-of-home care. The goal of
Family Finding is to provide each child with the
lifelong connections that only a family can offer.
Core beliefs involved in this approach
are:
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Every child has a
family
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Lonliness can be devasting and particularly felt
by foster children
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Meaningful connections to a family help a child
feel a sense of
belonging
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To see more benefits,
click
here
Here
is a case worker
referral
form.
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AFFEC
is the proud recipient of Bi-Mart's Willamette
Country Music Festival's generosity.
They are making available to us 100
tickets for our Mentor/Mentee matches for a
weekend of fun. Please submit your interest
to christy@afamilyforeverychild.org
if
you are a current Heart Gallery Mentor and would
like to take your Mentee to this fabulous weekend
event.
The
Bi-Mart Willamette Country Music Festival is an
exciting 3-day outdoor country music and camping
event located near the historic community of
Brownsville, Oregon. The 2011 dates are August 19,
20 and 21. This fantastic event is the Pacific
Northwest's fastest growing concert and camping
experience featuring more than a dozen of country
music's biggest stars!
Besides
star studded music, the Bi-Mart Willamette Country
Music Festival also offers RV and tent camping
just steps from the grand stage. We are also
excited to welcome Radio Disney, for the best in
kids' entertainment and family fun! Make your
summer concert and camping plans now. We look
forward to seeing you in
August!
Thank
you to
Bi-Mart! | | |
