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 the Trimbo Family!
We are David and Leah, and we live in Hutchinson, Minnesota. We met 17 years ago and have been together ever since! I love reading historical novels, writing in my journal and going for walks – weather permitting! I work part-time out of our home so I have a flexible work schedule. David loves camping, jet skiing, most outdoor activities, and works full-time at a warehouse and part-time at home doing car detailing. We enjoy going to Lake Washington, spending time with my family, and playing on the lake. We have taken mini trips to Duluth and several other places in Minnesota. We love traveling and exploring other states as well and have visited Florida, Arizona, and Alaska.
EVENTS
Charity Gaming Fundraiser feat. Gigglestink
January 30, 2021
Enter 2021 with A Family for Every Child’s first ever gaming charity stream! Featuring popular Facebook Gaming streamer Gigglestink, join us on Saturday, Jan. 30th for two hours of fun gameplay, exciting challenges, and new info about what 2021 has in store for AFFEC. Help support our foster youth and donate during the stream. We’ll see you online!
Eat with AFFEC: Panera Bread Fundraiser
February 18, 2021
Join us on Thursday, Feb. 18th from 4pm – 8pm for 2021’s first Eat with AFFEC fundraiser with Panera Bread! 20% of all purchases made while showing the attached flyer will benefit our organization! You can also order online and use code PRFUND for your purchase to count. Gateway location only.
Virtual Hero for a Day
March 13, 2021
In order to ensure the full safety and health of our volunteers, Princesses, Heroes, and guests, 2021 is going to be bringing Hero for a Day to you first! Our second Virtual Hero for a Day will be bigger and better than 2020! This three hour action packed marathon will be filled with super heroes, community heroes, science, magic, and many fun surprises, all over Zoom and from the comfort of your home. Registration opens soon and each one comes with a Hero Kit!
Online Kids Art Auction – Mother’s Day Edition
April 19, 2021
Join and help support A Family for Every Child by participating in our SECOND Kids Art Auction! We will be listing over a dozen original art pieces created by foster and non-foster children in our local community, as well as local professional artists, and putting the pieces up for auction to help raise funds for our programs and the kids. You can help by either bidding in the auction or contributing a piece of your own! The auction will be live from April 19th – May 4th.
Eugene Marathon
April 23, 2021
Back for 2021! On April 23 – 25, join the city of Eugene for the Eugene Marathon and partake in the break taking trails. If the Marathon has to be cancelled due to public health concerns, it will be switching to a Virtual event. The Run for a Reason program is back and our 2020 campaign is updated to 2021. Fundraise for our organization and run your race for free! Sign up and join our team HERE.
Princess for a Day – Date TBD
July 18, 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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