Welcome to A Family For Every Child - Serving Families, Children and Agencies Nationwide / A Family For Every Child is dedicated to finding loving, permanent families for every waiting foster child.
The Matching Assistance Program
A free membership program that provides nationwide families with access to additional child listings in order to help support home study-approved families who are seeking to adopt from foster care.
15th Night
The 15th Night is a community-wide partnership working to align and leverage existing community resources in innovative ways to help youth, who are Bethel-Eugene 4J students navigating school and life alone, without a permanent place to spend the night.
Matching Events
Online Matching Events utilize easy, simple and accessible technology to portray foster children in a professional and aesthetically pleasing manner. We use several photos of the child to portray their everyday life, personality and activities. The social worker presents a slide show for every family that has interest in the child.
Adoption Agency
A Family for Every Child Adoption Agency recognizes that “Forever Families” come in all shapes and sizes. We are an inclusive agency that specializes in finding permanent families for children in the foster care system that tend to be the most difficult to place because of their age, ethnicity, sibling group, developmental, emotional or physical disability.
Mentor Program
The mission of our Mentor Program is to bring enthusiastic, dedicated, caring adult members of our community and unite them with youth in foster care and/or youth at risk in our community.
Featured Family: Christine Gillispie
Hello, my name is Christine Gilispie and I would like to adopt a child between the ages of 2 and 14 inclusive. I am open to boys or girls. I feel I can accommodate a sibling group of up to 8 kids. I am open to all ethnic backgrounds. I am open to children with many(BIRTH HISTORY-Born with HIV issues or BIRTH HISTORY-Drug Addicted at Birth or MEDICAL-AIDS or MEDICAL-HIV or PAST CONTACTS-Contact via mail or PAST CONTACTS-Contact with Foster Parent or PAST CONTACTS-Contact with Relatives or PAST CONTACTS-Contact with Siblings or SEXUAL-Sexually Abused in the Past) and special needs. In general, I would like to adopt sibling groups looking to be together! I have more energy than most 20 year olds and would like to open our home to many children. Boys 0-12 and Girls 0-10 would be best suited for our home and also open to discussion.
EVENTS
Good Karma Monday | August 12, 2019
Join us for Good Karma Monday presented by Yogi Tea & The Eugene Emeralds! Pre-purchase tickets online or at the park the night of the game.
Half of all ticket proceeds will be donated to A Family For Every Child so grab your gloves and we'll see you at the park!
Heart of Country | September 8, 2019
An end of Summer event featuring Live music, Local BBQ, Shopping and activities and more!
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A Home for The Holidays | November 14, 2019
On behalf of A Family for Every Child and our A Home For The Holidays Auction, we would like to take this opportunity to invite you to partner with us to support this worthwhile event benefiting foster children in search of their forever families. This 'Winter Wonderland' themed night consists of dinner, auction packages both silent and live, our famous dessert dash, an impressive wine wall selection, and a beautiful holiday celebration.
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Princess for a Day | March 1, 2020
This is a ROYAL gathering for all the royal children in the land. This event is to celebrate the REGAL children both in foster care and not by giving them the royal treatment. This royal treatment includes being pampered, adorned in a new outfit fit for royalty, and a fancy tea party.
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Hero for a Day | TBA, 2020
Calling all Heroes to Hero for a Day! This action packed day shows all children the hero that they can become. Bring your child to meet their favorite heroes. This day includes activities and visits with firemen, police, doctors, lots of dogs and so much more!
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Information Nights (Eugene Office)
Are you interested in taking your first step towards adoption?! Please join us for our adoption information night! This is where you can learn about the general process of adoption and get all of your questions answered! There are a couple options every month!
Come into our Eugene Office for an friendly in-person Information meeting! Please RSVP for more information!
Information Nights are 2nd Thursday of each month at 6:00pm to 7:30 pm – this is in our Office
Information Nights (Webinar)
Join us online in the comfort of your own home for our webinar information night! Please RSVP to Adoptions@afamilyforeverychild.org or call 541-343-2856 to get the link to register!
Information Night Webinars are the 3rd Thursday of each month at 6:00pm to 7:30 pm
Please check out our calendar for more exact dates!
Adoption Support Group
Monthly meeting for family's at any stage of the adoption process; from just thinking about it to already finalized, everyone is welcome. We will discuss pertinent topics regarding the adoption process, challenging
behaviors, expectations and lot more. This will be a great opportunity for adoptive parents to meet and share ideas.
Sunday, June 16, 2019 at Old Nick's Pub in Eugene
NEWS
KMTR News Featurette – Princess for a Day
March 3rd, 2019
Our 2019 Princess For A Day event has been our most successful one yet with 400 girls, most of which are in foster care, enjoying a day full of royal pampering alongside their favorite Disney princesses. Thank you to our community, volunteers, and those who donated for making this amazing event possible each year
Read MoreKEZI News Featurette – Princess for a Day Donation Drop Boxes
January 9, 2019
As we prepare for our Annual Princess for a Day event, we rely on our community for their support and donations and in this case – Princess style clothing and accessories. The Eugene Police Department has been a long-time supporter of our organization and events and one of the ways they show their support is by hosting one of our Princess for a Day Donation Drop Boxes. KEZI joined our efforts this morning by spotlighting our Princess for a Day donation drop box (see video) located at the Eugene Police Department.
Read More Princess for a DayA Family for Every Child | December 11, 2018
We at AFFEC are honored to work with many families and even more amazing volunteers. Please take a moment to check out our latest video highlighting a few of these amazing people. We could not do what we do without each of you!
Thank-you!
how to adoptRegister Guard | October 28, 2018
In 2014, when Woods mostly was living on the streets, she was one of 20,524 students in Oregon identified as homeless by public school officials. During the 2016-17 school year, the most recent year for which data is available, 22,541 students were identified as homeless — about 4 percent of the overall K-12 student population in the state.
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