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We Need Volunteers From Everywhere!
Volunteer Process:
1) Fill out
this form
2) We will be in touch to walk you
through the next steps
If you want to talk first, or email,
please contact Hannah at
info@afamilyforeverychild.org
and/or
541-343-2856.
Roles (Only a few listed here, contact
us for more)
Targeted Email Outreach:
Searching for families for children in
urgent need of placement- After our training and
support on using our systems and "How-to's",
this role consists of sending out a targeted
email to families that fit the criteria of a
given child in need of a placement. For example
it could be a certain area, 2 parents, no other
kids, and so on. The email will include positive
information about the child, some of the
barriers/issues, as well as an image and contact
info for next steps.
Often because of this simple email
outreach (which can go out to 500 families at a
time) we can find a placement in hours. We truly
are using technology in the most effective and
urgent way to find forever families. This is an
amazing role to be a part of and very
gratifying. You can do as few or as many a week
as you like.
Each email is approx. 1 hour to
prepare and 2 hours to respond with families
(this is variable). This is our most important
role, the more you do it the better and faster
you will get. Involves really understanding and
using our database.
We get "urgent" requests from case
workers for
Volunteer Family Adoption
Specialist:
5 hours a week per family. Take as many
families as you like!
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 possible.
This volunteer can live anywhere in any
state, all work is done on the
phone/Internet/email.
Logo/Linking Partner Volunteer:
We are only as strong as our searches,
so to drive traffic to us we need to be linked
from as many web sites/partners as we can. We
have a template and logo that we give our
outreach volunteers to use to help us increase
the web hits and, therefore, families. This
volunteer can live anywhere in any state, all
work is done on the web/email. If you would like
to be involved in this effort or have
websites/businesses or partners you would like
to suggest, please email.
Matching Family/Child Search Specialist:
Searches national sites and compiles a
list of kids that fit the criteria of our
families and produce a list for each family once
a week. We provide a large list of sites to
search and sample templates for the list and a
how-to, plus whatever training you may need.
This volunteer can live anywhere in any state,
all work is done on the web/email. This is very
rewarding as you are actually involved in the
matching of families and kids, on your own time
and days.
State Representative
for outreach to case
workers/agencies/Heart Galleries and potential
partners, in each state. This Volunteer can live
anywhere in any state, all work is done on the
web/email. We all know of partners, businesses,
organizations and others that need to be on our
team. We are happy to supply you with sample
letters and/or templates for emails/calls to
engage partners. This can look like:
*Starting a new Heart
Gallery
*Recruiting
photographers
*Building media
connections
*Bringing case workers on board to photo
list their kids
*Gathering Support information for your
state, county by county or city by city that we
will then put on the web
*Linking our website with
partners
*Reaching out to agencies to build
relationships to help their families with our
Matching Assistance
Program
*Recruiting
volunteers
*Blogging about us
*Gathering email addresses for our
newsletter list, this is often the first way we
engage people and educate them in who we
are
*Grants/RFP's/funding
opportunities
*Assisting other efforts/Heart
Galleries/agencies in the state that we can in
any way
*Any info for our website from news feed
info about your state to child listing to
support, new efforts and so
on.
Any number of hours can be spent, we can
either train you on our system to enter state
information or you can keep a record on your own
and we will do the data entry. We offer support
daily as you move through this role and discover
new ways we can partner. We encourage "outside
the box" thinking and are open to all
partnership ideas. We will provide you with
letters, linking templates, sponsor flyers,
brochures, whatever you
need.
Child Listing
Volunteer:
We are currently working to partner with
photo listing agencies/Heart
Galleries/individual social workers and others
from other states to list more children on our
websites. This is a free service we offer to
help more children and families
connect.
We need volunteers who can help list
these children in our database and on our sites.
All training is provided. This volunteer can
live anywhere in any state, all work is done on
the web/email. If you can pay attention to
detail, this is the job for you! Any number of
hours a week would be great! 2-3 hours of
skype/phone/webinar/how-to training is
available, in whatever way works best for
you.
We are only as good as the children we
can
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