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: Meet Lori and Ben!
Our names are Lori and Ben. We have one child, a four-year-old daughter named Hazel. I am a stay-at-home parent and Ben works full-time for Intel as a financial analyst and has a flexible work schedule. Our everyday life revolves completely around doing what is best for our family. We love to travel, garden, cook, go hiking, do arts and crafts, go for bike rides, play with our two doggies, and spend time with extended family. We do lots of adventuring, even if just looking for bugs in the backyard or checking to see if the carrots are ready to pick! We do a lot of reading as Hazel adores books. We do arts and crafts, play dates, nature walks. Ben always makes it home for dinner and we eat together as a family. After dinner, we play all together before bath and bed. Bedtime involves reading a few books, and Ben playing Hazel to sleep on the acoustic guitar. We love to travel as a family, and love to go camping.
EVENTS
AFFEC’s First Netflix Party Movie Night
May 28, 2020
Join us on May 28th at 6PM as we watch a family favorite movie through the Netflix Party Chrome Extension! This feature allows users with the extension to watch a movie simultaneously and talk in the side chat box. RSVP using the Facebook event and vote in our poll to choose between Despicable Me and Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. We are asking for a suggested $7 donation (average price of a movie ticket). We hope to see you there!
Online Kids Art Auction COVID-19 Relief Fundraiser
June 15, 2020
Join and help support A Family for Every Child by participating in our first ever Kids Art Auction! We will be listing over a dozen original art pieces created by foster and non-foster children in our local community, and putting the pieces up for auction to help raise funds for our programs affected by COVID-19. You can help by either bidding in the auction or contributing a piece of your own! The auction will be live from June 15th to June 21st.
Virtual Hero for a Day
July 11, 2020
Due to current government restrictions on large gatherings, we have decided to take Hero for a Day online! This action packed day will shows all children the hero that they can become. Bring your child into the Zoom Room where they can meet their favorite heroes. This day includes activities and visits with firemen, police, doctors, lots of dogs and so much more! We hope our community will be able to come together and thank our local heroes for continuing to keep us healthy, safe, and fed during these unprecedented times, all from the comfort of home.
Heart of Country Festival
September 13, 2020
Please join us Sunday, September 13th at Alton Baker Park in Eugene for our 4th annual Heart of Country Festival! Enjoy music from local bands, food from local food trucks, and wares from local vendors while dancing the day away. More details to come!
A Home for The Holidays
November 12, 2020
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.
Princess for a Day
March 07, 2021
2021 will mark our 13th year of providing foster and community children alike the opportunity to experience a day of pampering and fun. In 2020, we catered to more than 350 “princesses” and we expect to surpass that number in 2021! This is a regal gathering for all the children in the land. This event is to celebrate the children both in foster care and not by giving them the royal treatment. This includes being pampered, adorned in a new outfit fit for royalty, and a fancy tea party.
Featured Videos
Information Nights
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
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.
Third Sunday of each month at Old Nick's Pub in Eugene
NEWS
KVAL News Featurette – Peer to Peer Fundraising
January 16th, 2020
Peer to Peer fundraising gives potential adoptive parents the opportunity to include their friends and family in a fundraising effort for adoption fees to begin their adoption journey.
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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!
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