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Volunteer / Intern Positions
A Family For Every Child is proud to have many volunteers and interns work with our organization. Want to help A Family For Every Child but arenāt sure how? Volunteering is a great way to support our many programs serving foster and at-risk youth and families right here in our own community as well as foster youth and pre-adoptive families nationwide! Often we can be flexible to accommodate many schedules. Our positions offer a real-world experience for those who wish to improve their skills and add to a resume, for students requiring intern or volunteer hours, students who wish to gain experience, or for anyone who has a desire to give of themselves and their time to our mission. Some of our positions are better suited in our offices, however many tasks can be completed from anywhere. We could not do this important work without you!
Urgent Volunteer Positions
All Volunteer Positions
Professional Experience Volunteer Positions
Are you seeking Professional Experience through a volunteer role?
Are you looking at a career change? Need to build experience on your resume? What to learn about nonprofit and/or Social work? We have the roles for you!!
These are Rare Opportunity to make a REAL Difference. For these roles we are much more selective, we ask for a 1 year commitment of 6-10 hours a week. We will invest in you with the same commitment.
If you are interested in any of these roles, please send your interest and resume to christy@afamilyforeverychild.org
Our History
The Beginning
January 1, 2006
Heart Gallery of Lane County
April 1, 2006
Family Finding Program
September 1, 2006
2006 Recap
December 31, 2006
Mentor Program
April 1, 2007
Heart Gallery Christmas Giving
December 1, 2007
2007 Recap
December 31, 2007
Adoption Agency
April 1, 2008
Child Trends
May 1, 2008
Oregon State Partnership
June 1, 2008
New Office
September 1, 2008
2008 Recap
December 31, 2008
Princess for a Day
April 1, 2009
Recruiting for Washington
December 1, 2009
2009 Recap
December 31, 2009
Nation wide photo listing
February 15, 2010
Our first adoption!
April 1, 2010
Washington Heart Gallery
May 1, 2010
Matching Assistance Program
July 1, 2010
1st Winter Wonderland Event
October 1, 2010
Heart Gallery of America Website
December 10, 2010
2010 Recap
December 31, 2010
Hero For A Day
June 1, 2012
Summer Event
July 1, 2013
2014 Recap
December 31, 2014
2015 Recap
December 31, 2015
2016 Recap
December 31, 2016
2017 Recap
December 31, 2017
Upcoming Events

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.

Virtual Eugene Marathon
April 23, 2021
Back for 2021! On April 23 – 25, join the city of Eugene for the *new* Virtual Eugene Marathon and partake in the break taking trails, this time at your convenience. 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.

Heart of Country Festival
June 12, 2021
Please join us Saturday, June 12th for our 6th annual Heart of Country Festival! Enjoy music from local bands, food and drink from our local partners, and an amazing raffle, all presented through virtual and, if we’re able to gather, in-person elements.

Princess for a Day
August 15, 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 āprincessesā 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.

A Home for The Holidays
November 11, 2021
On behalf of A Family for Every Child and our 12th annual 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. We have hopes that we can gather again in celebration of our foster youth and wine and dine at the Valley River Inn. Stay tuned for more details.
Calendar
Blog
Frequently Asked Questions
Today in the United States, 423,000 children are living in Foster Care waiting for their Forever Family. Approximately 115,000 of these children are ready to be adopted. Unfortunately, 40% of these children will wait for over three years in foster care before finding a permanent home. Could you be a Forever Family for a child that is waiting?
“The solution to adult problems tomorrow, depends on how our children grow up today! There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children we save ourselves.”
Who are the children in foster care?
I’m not married, can I still adopt?
What if I work full time?
Our house is smaller, does the child have to have their own bedroom if we adopt?
I am no longer child bearing age, am I too old to adopt?
We are a military family, can we still adopt?
What if I don’t own my own home?
What is a SNAC agency?
What is Matching Assistance?
Is the Matching Assistance Program a part of AFFEC Adoption Agency?
What is a Home Study?
Who selects the family for a child/children?
What is the ICPC process for adoption from another state?
Can LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgender, and Queer) parents adopt?
How much does it cost to adopt?
Where do I take the required training?
- Prepare prospective parents to better understand a child who comes out of the foster care system
- Prepare prospective parents for adoption
- Challenge individuals to grow and develop as a parent
- Help parents consider: what type of child can I successfully parent? Am I able to parent a child who has been neglected and/or abused to some degree?
Legal risk vs. Legally free
How do I get started?
What is adoption?
Who are the children who are available for adoption?
Who can adopt?
How long will it take to adopt?
What is a home study?
Where are the children living while waiting to be adopted?
How does foster care differ from adoption?
Can the birth parents take a child back?
Can I adopt a child in a different state?
What is involved in adopting a child from a different state?
Can I adopt a child of another race?
Should I be a foster parent before I adopt?
Tell me more about your organization?
What services do you offer?
What makes your agency different than DHS?
Why should I work with AFFEC?
- A dedicated worker assigned to your family to assist you with searching, matching, and placement services. Workers are located all over the state for your convenience, or are often willing to travel to a family.
- The lowest adoption fee in the state. We offer one flat fee, no hidden or additional costs for our services.
- You will receive a copy of your completed home study, we believe you are the client and it is your product. Many agencies do not release home studies to families.
- We are one of the only agencies that work with children out of state. You will have on line access to listings of children for adoption all across the country. 60% of our placements are from another state and this gives our families many more options to consider children from other states.
- Experienced with the Interstate Compact Placement of Children (ICPC)ā this is especially important when you adopt a child from another state.
- Matching Services focused on helping families advocate for themselves and several free recruitment options with targeted emails, website feature, feature family newsletters and much more
- We are honored to serve families of all shapes and sizes; we believe every family has something to offer waiting children.
What is the cost?
What is a Travel Fee?
- Travel to and from family visits at 35 cents per mile (mileage to start 15 miles
- from Adoption Worker home)
- Hotel: Not to exceed $100 a night
- Meals: $10.00 a meal (two meals only when travel and visit equal 8 hours, one
- meal if 6 hours)
- Travel to and from family visits at the rate of $ 10.00 per hour, or $15.00 an hour for a flat rate hourly (no mileage) option.
How long does it take?
- 2-4 months for Home study, depending on many of the familiesā variables, like training, background check, completing documents.
- Matching phase 1-12 months, sometime faster, this really depends on how open the family is
- Post placement is 6-12 months depending on the state and how quickly they finalize.
Do you have to be married to adopt?
What does āqualifyā mean?
Do i need to own a home?
We want to adopt a baby. Is that something we can do through AFFEC?
Is there a risk we could get placed and lose the child because they return back to the biological parents or extended family members?
Are foster adoptions required to be an open adoption?
Organizational Documents
501(c)(3)
Tax Documents
- 2010 Tax 990
- 2011 Tax 990
- 2012 Tax 990
Download then open - 2013 Tax 990
- 2014 Tax 990
- 2015 Tax 990
- 2016 Tax 990
- 2017 Tax 990
- 2018 Tax 990
Financial Documents
Reports
Misc Documents
Employees
Christy Obie-Barrett, the Executive Director created the agency through dedicated and insightful leadership. She brings the unique perspective of an adoptive parent, a business person and a community partner together to motivate others toward positive outcomes for children. Christy is President of the Heart Gallery of America.
Volunteer Coordinator
Kelli was a long term volunteer with A Family For Every Child before finding her place with our organization. Since 2012, her position has grown to include Child Recruitment Services as well as the Volunteer Coordinator for the organization.
āI consider it a privilege to be a part of this organization and to work alongside such dedicated individuals. I firmly believe that there truly is a family for every child.ā Kelli is exuberant about her work and eager to form partnerships with agencies and social workers nationwide. āWe all have the same goal in mind-to find stable, loving homes for waiting foster children. By providing free recruitment services, we can achieve this goal together.ā
While Kelliās work is her passion, she likes to spend her free time with her husband, two grown children as well as with many friends and relatives. While they enjoy trips to the Oregon Coast, University of Oregon football, and the beauty that is the Pacific Northwest, they are also self-described nerds and their home is filled with their memorabilia collection.
Host Home and Mentor Programs Director
Jan comes to us having worked 17 years in Special Education and has always had a passion for supporting youth. She has extensive experience with youth with Autism, ADHD, PTSD, RAD and numerous other disorders. It has always been her desire to be a consistent, patient and positive advocate for young people.
Having lived most of her life in the Midwest, she moved to Eugene in June ā18 to start a new adventure. Enjoying the outdoors, cooking, reading and yoga are some of her passions, along with spending time with family & friends.
Her role as Mentor & Host Home Programs Director has given her a place to focus her passion. Being the mother of two grown adult daughters, she had been on a search to find a place to put her concern & desire to be useful. Being offered a position at A Family For Every Child was the perfect solution. In addition to helping facilitate successful matches with Mentors & Mentees in our Mentor Program , Jan is very excited to see the Host Home Program grow and help get local students in homes and off the streets.
Alex has been with A Family for Every Child since August of 2019. Before he joined the team, he worked in retail after graduating from Oregon State University in 2014. Finding a passion for coordinating events and working with the public while in college, Alex determined he was done with retail and wanted to go back to something he had been missing. Having been born and raised in the Eugene/Springfield area, Alex feels very at home in his community and is glad to be making a positive impact while working with A Family for Every Child. Alex enjoys art, music, cooking, photography, and collecting vinyl records.
Adoption Workers
Eugene, OR
Rosalind has a Masterās Degree in Early Intervention from the University of Oregon. She worked as a caseworker for the Department of Human Services Child Welfare department for seven years. She has also worked with homeless families and victims of domestic violence. She says, āI believe that taking care of children is the most important job in our society and children in foster care are among those needing the most careā. Rosalind was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Italy. She has worked in Africa helping girls to go to high school. She has three children, six grandchildren, one cat, and enjoys gardening and writing.
Eugene, OR
Nichole Brown has a Bachelorās Degree in Sociology and Spanish from The University of Oregon in Eugene, OR. She worked as a Bilingual Child Protective Services caseworker for 12 years and has extensive experience working with foster families, interviewing child abuse victims and developing individualized case/safety plans. She currently serves as a legal assistant and child visitor for juvenile and family law attorneys currently serving local youth in foster care.
Eugene, OR / Surrounding Areas
Heather is an adoption worker based out of the Eugene/Springfield area, however, she works with families all over the state. She has been with the agency for several years now and absolutely loves being able to help families through their adoption journey. She has a huge heart, and has made it her mission to find loving and stable homes for children in the foster care system. Heather has a background in education and taught elementary and middle school for 13 years in Florida, California and Oregon before stepping into the social work arena. She spent time traveling around the United States in her camper before settling down in Oregon. She has worked with diverse populations and especially loves to work with non-traditional families. Heather connects well with children and goes the extra mile when it comes to providing service for her clients before, during and after adoptions. Additionally, Heather facilitates a community adoption support group that meets in Eugene once a month and is in the process of creating a group in the Medford area.
Portland, OR / Surrounding Areas
Staci is an adoptive parent who has a passion for assisting others grow their families through adoption. Staci is a passionate advocate and has a strong knowledge of adoption and how the system works. She lives in the Portland area with her children and husband. They enjoy the outdoors, helping others, and doing things together as a family. Staci is a dedicated worker who has many years of experience as a youth support counselor and as a teacher. Staci loves assisting others through the adoption process.
WA
Athenia (Tina) Childersā¦ā¦..was born in California to a single mother in crisis. She spent most of her formative years moving often from state to state, even at one point living in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Much of these years were spent moving in and out of foster care, group care, receiving care and relative care.
Tina has 4 biological children and 7 grandchildren and 1 very cherished angel. Currently she has a teenager and her two sisters residing all in the same home.
Growing up in care Tina brings a unique perspective to the table. Always questioning and encouraging our youth to question. Bringing the āfamily valueā of teaching our children to Dreamā¦ā¦that is the one word that most us take for granted. Passionā¦ā¦.Driveā¦ā¦..Teachā¦ā¦..these are all very valuable qualities that Tina has had to learn along the way. Oneās that she values above all else and shares with friends and family.
Tina has worked in Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Program / Shelter (YWCA), Federal Probation & Parole, State of Washington Childrenās Administration (Child Protective, Child Welfare, Division of Licensed Resources), Pioneer Human Resources, Auburn Youth Resources, Sea Mar Community Healthcare and Anthem Healthcare (Amerigroup.) Currently she holds a Bachelorās of Science in Criminal Justice with a minor in Forensics, and a Masterās in Science Criminal Justice Administration. With numerous other trainings and certifications. It is also with great anticipation that Tina looks forward to collaborating with our community, state and agency partners to provide a better future and to teach our kids to Dream again.
Bend, OR
Eugene, OR
I was born and raised in here in Eugene Oregon and have no plans on ever leaving this beautiful state. I got my B.A. at Northwest Christian University and studied English, History, and Early childhood Education. During that time, I interned as a teacherās aide at a local elementary school and volunteered at our local Childs Advocacy Center KIDS FIRST. After Volunteering at KIDS FIRST, I knew I wanted help children in the foster care system find forever families. I am thrilled to be apart of the AFFEC family. During my free time, I like to take my daughter on mommy and daughter dates to Barnes and Noble and order warm drinks and read for hours.
Salem, OR
Eugene, OR / Prineville, OR
Hello my name is Stephanie Cummings and I am an Adoption Worker.
I have been working with families and children for over 30 years. I started out as a foster parent at 23 with a new baby myself. My household quickly grew with 2 bio children, 5 foster and a guardianship within a year. I fell in love with the children and began to look at the "why" and "how" we have children in foster care and the needs of families and communities. I became an advocate for my kids in court and providing resources for special needs. My heart grew bigger and I needed to know and research about this vulnerable population of little people. I decided to continue my education at received a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences and in Women's Studies from Portland State University. I also have a 2-year degree in Interpersonal and Domestic Violence.
I have worked with families all over Oregon in many different roles. I have been an in home safety service provider, a foster parent, community trainer, family advocate, homeless families case manager in Portland and a child welfare social worker in Child Protective services and adoptions. I recently worked as an Education Manager for Head Start and Early Head Start and a Family Advocate. I have many years and training hours in attachment and bonding, special needs and education, RAD, oppositional and defiant behaviors and trauma and crisis.
I live in Prineville but travel to Eugene often as a second home base! I grew up in Springfield but have traveled and lived all over the state of Oregon plus a few other states! I have a blended family with 5 children and 6 grandchildren all under the age of 7! I love to travel, read, quilt and meet new people!
I feel strong and open communication, knowing your families and providing amazing family and child connections and matches are so important in what I do! I am so excited to begin this journey with A Family for Every Child
Eugene, OR & Other Select Areas
Salem, OR
Spokane, WA
Seattle, WA / Surrrounding Areas
Astoria,OR / Surrrounding Areas
Portland,OR
Boise, ID
Bend, OR
Bend, OR & Portland, OR
Gold Beach, OR
Seattle, WA
Idaho
Portland, OR / Vancouver, WA