For the fifth year, A Family For Every child sponsored Princess For A Day at Valley River Center in Eugene, Oregon.
More than 350 girls, the majority of which are foster girls, received a royal gown, slippers and a crown.
Princess for a Day Volunteers Prepare KEZI - Wednesday, February 27, 2013
EUGENE, Ore. — More than 300 girls currently living with foster parents will be primped and pampered this weekend at Princess for a Day.
Each of them will be treated like a princess and dressed like one too.
The event put on by A Family for Every Child has been a huge success in years past.
Power Talk: A Discussion of Adoption National - Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Our Associate Director Linzy Munger and others appeared with Linda Ballesteros to discuss Adoption on Power Talk.
Hear the former President of the Gift of Adoption, an organization that inspires adoption by providing grants
to qualified parents wanting to adopt, speak about how families can utilize their supports. Gift of Adoption helps families
figure out what kind of adoption is right for them. Linzy speaks about our matching assistance program and the
services we provide families who want to adopt from foster care but might be finding barriers in doing so.
Linda's Daughter April Keppinger spoke about her adoption experience and working with A Family For Every Child.
AFFEC Helps a Child Find a Forever Family Eugene, OR. -- Thursday, October 25, 2012
Thanks, largely, to the Eugene-based A Family for Every Child adoption agency, he not only has found a foster home that's working for him but
is scheduled for permanent adoption by a Maryland couple before year's end.
"They already love me," he says. "That's the great part. They're willing to tackle my problems with me."
A glitz factor has been added to recent lineups at the Bi-Mart Willamette Country Music Festival. In just five years, big names and big crowds have become the norm.
Stars such as this year’s closing acts — Sugarland, Martina McBride and Trace Adkins — are vastly popular in the country music world. And several others, such as the Band Perry and Jana Kramer, are moving up the Billboard charts.
For the second year, the Bi-Mart Willamette Country Music Festival will support the HEART Gallery, a national effort to find a home for every foster child.
There are more 12,000 children in foster care in Oregon and 500,000 nationwide. Fewer than 50 percent will ever return home to stay.
The Great Rotary Duck Race has had that impact on more than two dozen non-profits in its 25 years. This year, organizers invited all of them to a reunion of sorts -- with some incentive: build a duck. The best one will win $2,000; the rest will be auctioned off with the money going back to the agency that created it.
Mother's Day for foster parents, like the Collins of Eugene, Oregon, has never been the same. With foster children, the children change from year to year, and not just in age!
The girls were given the royal treatment including hair, nail and makeup styling, plus a tea party lunch and a special photo shoot. Springfield-based non-profit A Family for Every Child organized the event.
4th Annual Princess For A Day | KEZI News Eugene, OR. -- Sunday, March 4, 2012 --
A Family for every Child hosted its 4th annual "Princess for a Day" event.
Foster girls get their hair, make-up and nails done, along with a dress and crown to take home. And of course, they get to attend a royal tea party, all for free.
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A Family For a Child and Princess For A Day | KUGN News Eugene, OR. -- Friday, March 2, 2012 --
A Family For Every Child is a non-profit organization based in Springfield, Oregon where what we try to do is find a loving and permanent home for every
waiting foster child....Click left to hear more
Foster Girls to Receive Royal Treatment | KEZI News Eugene, OR. -- Thursday, March 1, 2012 --
Foster children often don't get the same privileges as non-foster children, but this weekend, A Family for Every Child will make hundreds of Lane County foster girls feel like a princess.
The Princess for a Day event this Sunday is a chance for foster girls and non-foster girls to dress up, get their hair done and make-up done -- the full royal treatment....
GUEST VIEWPOINT: Even the best foster homes can't replace family support
Eugene, OR. -- Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011 --
When you hear about child abuse or neglect, most people's first reaction is "get that kid out of danger." Once we know the child has been removed, we breathe a sigh of relief, assume that the child will be better off in foster care, and consider the problem fixed. If we think of the abuser, it is almost always to condemn and judge: "How could they do that?"
Holiday Events Schedule Filling Up
WESTERN Ore.
-- Friday, A Family for Every Child and Fifth Street Market invite you to "A Night of a Thousand Stars."
The free celebration is a fundraiser for A Family for Every Child. The non-profit focuses on finding
permanent and adoptive homes for children. The event is open to the public it's from 5 to 8 p.m.
Friday night at the Fifth Street Market.
12 Kids Is Just a Start
Eugene, Oregon
-- Saturday, May 9, 2009 -- Many hands pitch in to put candles on the first cake of "birthday season,"
as the Barrett family of Eugene calls the busy months of April through July. Christy Obie-Barrett and her husband,
Bill Barrett, built a rambunctious, affectionate family of 12 biological and adoptive children before she started
a nonprofit focused on making a difference in the lives of many more children.
Oregon Ducks Assistant Coach Scott Frost mentors a teen.... can you?
Scott Frost started as a mentor in Eugene more than two years ago, an experience that turned into much more than he had planned.
After mentoring turned into fostering, Frost said:
"I forget who said it, but a quote that I really like is, 'Don't make the mistake of doing nothing because you can only
do a little.' I'm not there for Chris as often as I'd like to. But because I'm there for Chris, I've seen changes.
Not only that, it's been one of the best things I've ever done for me.
Because I'm starting to realize the value of having someone completely depend on me,
and the impact that I can make on someone."
We have a need for more male mentors in the Eugene / Springfield area.
Stop making excuses why you shouldn't.
The Register Guard November 10, 2011 Local shopping malls brace for Black Friday
Valley River Center joins a growing trend in planning a midnight opening
Princess for a Day Paonia, Colo. June 16, 2011 –
Once a year, A Family for Every Child, an Oregon-based nonprofit that works to place foster children in permanent homes, hosts its Princess for a Day fundraiser. For $50, participants get pampered and primped, glittered and gifted with goody bags and gowns and an elegant tea followed by ice cream sundaes and a dance with a handsome prince from a college fraternity. Kids in foster care get to attend for free. "This is stupid," a teen in glasses muttered to her friend as she entered a conference room full of perfumed beauticians wielding curling irons.
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Princess for a Day Eugene, Ore. March 6, 2011 –Hundreds of princesses were at the Valley River Inn in Eugene Sunday. Girls in foster care from all over the region received some royal treatment. "Everybody wants to be a princess, all little girls want to be a princess," said Andrea Kingsley Rippee, president of A Family for Every Child. The local organization, A Family for Every Child, believes every girl deserves to be a princess, if only for a day....
Princess For A Day Springfield, Ore. March 3, 2011 – Girls ages 2-18 are royally invited to become "Princesses for a Day," and admission is free for girls in foster care (with advanced registration at www.afamilyforeverychild.org). Last year this event drew nearly 200 girls, and 75% of them were in foster care. This year, A Family for Every Child hopes 300 princesses will make their royal debut for a day of finery and fun.
Princess For A Day EUGENE, Ore. -- A Family For A Child is a non-profit agency which seeks to find a permanent loving home for every waiting foster child. In line with its mission, A Family For Every Child sponsors A Princess For A Day, an event where girls in foster care can be...
AFFEC's "Winter Wonderland" Held As First Fundraiser
EUGENE, Ore.--A local non-profit group that helps foster children finds homes, hosted its first-ever fundraiser. "A Family for Every Child" invited folks to come out to the "Winter Wonderland" dinner and auction. About 250 people answered the call, and got to hear one child's story about her adoption.
A Family for Every Child An Oregon mother has made it her life's mission to find forever families for Oregon and Washington foster children. Mother of 12, Christy Obie-Barrett, says when her youngest child entered kindergarten she decided she wanted to spend her free time helping others experience the gift of family.
Foster kids get to be princess for a day.
In early March of each year, A Family For Every Child sponsors the Princess Event, a chance for girls in foster care to be treated like royalty! Girls in foster care get a gown, slippers, a tiara, and a hairdo. Then they partake of one of the delicacies of royal life: a tea party and photo shoot, all in a luxurious Holiday Inn. Over 200 girls participated in this year's event.
A message from the heart Chiropractor encourages foster parenting on the Harbor
Article By Leif Nesheim The Vidette (Monsanto Wa.)
KEZI Kids in Crisis- Run Eugene Run
Registration for the 5K Run/Walk begins at 4:30 p.m. in Alton Baker Park. The race itself starts at 6:30 p.m.
KEZI Kids in Crisis- The Parent Test
Being a foster parent may not pay you back financially, but it has an emotional payout that few other jobs can offer.
KEZI Kids in Crisis- Making a Difference
If you're nervous about jumping into a full-time responsibility like being a foster parent, you should know there are other options.
KEZI Kids in Crisis- One Safe Return
Every month, about 30 Lane County children are taken out of their parents' homes and are placed in foster care.
KEZI Kids in Crisis- Budget Cut Kids
Lane County's foster care system is maxxed out. More children are coming in, but the amount of funding keeps dropping as the state mulls major budget cuts.
OregonLive.com THE BACHSCORE: Ducks assistant Scott Frost speaks about mentoring teen
The Register Guard Family counts for everything: Mother of 12 balances busy home life with working to meet the needs of children waiting for families to call their own.
The Register Guard GUEST VIEWPOINT: Service class teaches timeless lesson — how to be charitable
The Register Gaurd PAGES FROM THEIR LIVES:
Volunteers put their hearts into designing pages for adopted children's Lifebooks
We Are Family (An AFFEC Sucess story) Some people
are meant to be parents: Julia and her family were supposed to go to Southern Utah for spring break. Instead, they're here at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport. Eleven-year-old Julia loves this place. Today she's wearing pink and purple: a purple hat with sparkly plastic jewels, a pink hooded sweatshirt, purple flip-flops.
"This spring, Hiram's portrait will join those of more than 300 other New Jersey foster children at an exhibit titled Heart Gallery of New Jersey. If all goes well, adults who visit the exhibit (or view the photos online at www.heartgallerynj.com) will be moved to adopt."
"Organizers hope that if more people see compelling portraits of Jaillah and other children like him - life-size and lively - more will consider adoption."
They're photographing the children with the same dignity and respect that they would give to big stars and CEOs,' notes Feanny. 'They're bringing the same lights and assistants, the same backdrops.' One boy, she recalls, said to his social worker, 'I feel like a movie star."
"Nearly one hundred thirty thousand children in the U.S. public welfare system are waiting to be adopted. Most are eight years old, or even older. Now though, there is a new strategy to get them a home."
Christy Obie-Barrett appointed to newly formed National Heart Gallery Board
Christy Obie Barrett, President of A Family for Every Child, and Director of the Heart Gallery of Lane County, has accepted the invitation to join the National Heart Gallery Board. She will be presenting workshops at the first national Heart Gallery conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the end of August. Heart Galleries are an innovative adoption recruitment tool using positive portraits of children needing adoptive homes.
Christy will have national impact on adoption recruitment practices.
"This spring, Hiram's portrait will join those of more than 300 other New Jersey foster children at an exhibit titled Heart Gallery of New Jersey. If all goes well, adults who visit the exhibit (or view the photos online at 
"Organizers hope that if more people see compelling portraits of Jaillah and other children like him - life-size and lively - more will consider adoption."
They're photographing the children with the same dignity and respect that they would give to big stars and CEOs,' notes Feanny. 'They're bringing the same lights and assistants, the same backdrops.' One boy, she recalls, said to his social worker, 'I feel like a movie star."
"Nearly one hundred thirty thousand children in the U.S. public welfare system are waiting to be adopted. Most are eight years old, or even older. Now though, there is a new strategy to get them a home."