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Che't
Eight-year-old
Che't (pronounced Shay), is an endearing young boy
who will warm your heart with his smile. He can be
very quiet at times, but once engaged, he becomes
a chatter box. Che't likes watching Disney movies,
playing outside, and playing with his toys,
especially cars and action figures! While he is
very active, he does have a hard time
sitting still. He engages easily with adults and
wants to please them.
Che't needs a
committed, patient and kind adoptive family. Che't
will need to be the youngest or only child in a
family. He'll need structure and consistency to
meet his social, mental health, and academic
needs. Families who can advocate for Che't, and
work cooperatively with other social service
providers will also be important in helping Che't
reach his full potential. With an unconditional
commitment to help him achieve emotional and
behavioral stability, and lots of love, Che't
could be a great
success.
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Abegail,
Memphis,
Venessa
Ages
4, 2, 1
Abegail,
Memphis, and Venessa need adoptive parents that
can provide a high level of predictability,
structure, supervision and consistency. The
children prefer low-stimulation and sticking close
to their caregivers.
Abegail has a very
sweet face with a shy smile. She is sweet, smart,
nurturing, and follows directions. She loves being
outdoors, riding bikes, and running. She is very
talkative and full of positive energy. Abegail
needs to remain with Memphis and Venessa and have
the opportunity to be connected with her
half-sibling Kayla.
Memphis loves to be
outside riding bikes and playing with trucks. He
enjoys looking at books and listening to music. He
loves his foster father and follows him around
when he comes home from work, ''helping'' him with
farm chores.
Venessa is a happy baby.
She is very social and loves to interact with
other kids. She loves baths and closes her eyes
and just relaxes in the warm water. She likes to
be cuddled and enjoys music.
Their
adoptive family will need to be patient,
accepting, and nurturing with a good support
system. The children thrive on nurturing, parental
attention, and lots of outdoor time and play. They
may benefit from safe contact with their
six-year-old sister. The children will need an
adoptive family who will work with the services
required to support their ongoing progress and
needs over time such as counseling, early
intervention services, and academic support.
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Washington
Heart Gallery
We
are in the process of beginning and growing our
Washington Heart Gallery. If you are a
Washington Business, Church, photographer or
volunteer and would like to be involved, please
let us know!
Angela@afamilyforeverychild.org
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Donate
to AFFEC
Would
you like to contribute to AFFEC's cause for
helping children? Any amount can have a
lasting impact on a child. Click Below!
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We
Need Computers!
We
now are looking for monitors and mice. Please
keep AFFEC in mind if you have extra
equipment!
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AFFEC
Media
AFFEC is on Facebook, Myspace, and more.
Click on the
links!
AFFEC Blog: Please contribute your
thoughts!
Our Mentor Program now has a discussion
group:
Perhaps you are addicted to Social Media.
Perhaps you would like to get involved. We could
use you!
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Google
Adwords Volunteer
We
were lucky enough to be granted a Google Adword
grant, now we are looking for a volunteer to help
us build our account and take one or two days a
month to over see it.
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you have experience with Google Adwords, please
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Our
Partners:
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Savannah
is a charming, sweet five-year-old girl with a
precious smile. She has a strong and
affectionate relationship with Shania. Savannah
enjoys taking care of her dollies, riding her
bike, skipping and hopping, reading, grooming
her hair, cheerleading, and likes to look
at herself in the mirror. She shows pride when
showing her very neat and tidy
room.
Shania is a delightfully and
irresistibly cute four-year-old girl. Even
though she is the youngest, she keeps up with
her older siblings and occasionally likes to be
the boss. Shania is a cheerleader for a middle
school football team and eagerly shares her love
of music and dance. She likes Barbies, books,
coloring, board games and hair adornments. She
is excited and eager to learn new things and be
involved in activities at home and school.
Shania is a smart little girl with an incredible
memory making it very easy for her to learn new
dances and songs.
Savannah and Shania
entered care on December 7, 2006. Savannah and
Shania have seven additional siblings. They
visit with two of them on a regular basis.
Savannah and Shania enjoy their regular contact
with their brothers. Savannah and Shania are not
currently visiting their mother or other family
members. Mediation will be offered to the birth
family.
Their adoptive family will need
to be a strong team that will participate in
services. The family will need to be able to be
flexible as both children will need different
types of parenting. The family will need to
provide extra structure, routine, and
predictability with lots of patience and love.
The family will need to be open to facilitating
contact with the siblings and biological family.
It is hoped that Savannah and Shania will have a
supportive family environment to assist their
visits with their siblings and in their play
together. The family will need to have an
ability to be flexible in their parenting so
that they may establish a relationship with the
children, apply different structure for each
child based on the child's needs, and shower
each child with positive attention.
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Age
6
I
am happy to introduce to you a wonderful little
boy named Jason. Jason is an
absolute delight to be around. He is
respectful, happy, and pleasant most of the
time. He does tend to get nervous around people
he doesn't know, but can easily warm up to new
faces. Jason loves video games, trucks, hot
wheels, camping, fishing, hunting, mud bogging,
and just being outdoors in general. Jason is
eager to share his toys and belongings with
others around him and is great at taking
turns.
Jason has two younger sisters;
however, he does not have a significant
relationship with either one of them. One of
Jason's sisters was adopted in 2006 and the
other sister is being raised by his mother in
another state. Jason was in foster care at the
time of her birth and has met her once. At this
time, Jason does not have contact with any of
his birth family. Jason has asked about visiting
his birth mother and father so some type of
contact might be in his best interest.
Jason does appear to have some trauma
issues from his past, which includes not having
much stability or a permanent home. Jason would
do best in a family that provides him
a structured environment and lots of love.
Jason does not appear to need any extra
supervision above what is appropriate for his
age. He would love to be a big brother and has
said that he is excited to have a family of his
own. Jason is a very special boy who has so much
to offer. Any family willing to commit to Jason
would be rewarded with a lifetime of laughter,
enjoyment, memories and
love.
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Winter
Wonderland Gala Auction
Save
the Date: November 10th
Place:
Valley River Inn
Time:
5:30pm Social Hour
Auctioneer:
Sid
Voorhees
Master
of Ceremonies:
Bill
Barrett
Sponsorship
Opportunities
Available
Along
with dozens of dedicated event volunteers, we
are asking you to support us by becoming a
sponsor, donating an auction item, purchasing a
table or individual tickets.
For
more information or to RSVP,
contact:
541-343-2856
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Professional
Bulletin Photos
By knowing how important a good photo is
to recruitment, AFFEC is now offering to take
professional photos for child bulletins. We are
committed to a two week turn around (although
caseworker or foster parent schedules may make
this more difficult).
We have developed our statewide list of
photographers that can (within a week of our
call) photograph a child or sibling group.
Within a week of images being taken, we will
email the .jpg images to caseworkers. We then
store all images for further recruitment tools
if requested by the caseworker. All that is
needed is the referral form linked
below:
Referral
Form! |
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Family
Support Meetings
This
support group is an open forum, a place for
pre-adoptive families, post-adoptive families,
foster families, and mentors. We have different
speakers each month that share experiences along
with valuable information. Come share and
encourage each other through this
journey.
When:
2nd and 4th Thursdays of each
month
Time:
5:30-7:30pm
Where:Boys and Girls Club of
Emerald Valley
1545 W 22nd Ave
Eugene, OR
97405
Activities
for Children available
Please
RSVP to:lisa@afamilyforeverychild.org
Click
below for a great webinar on adoption!
Check
out our resource
page:
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Volunteer
Opportunities
Admin
Support -
Submission
team member. 3-20 hours a week. At AFFEC office
location. We get upwards of 300 adoption
inquiries from our website each month and need
regular, dependable, committed volunteers to
assist us in supporting families through the
adoption inquiry and Home Study submission
process.
Matching
Assistant Program -
We
have a newly created Matching Assistance
Program. We have a director, but there are many
elements to it such as marketing to parents,
marketing to case workers and agencies. There
are also roles in reaching out to other photo
listings and building relationships to photo
list their kids. We would love to have you join
our team.
Web Listing
Volunteer -
(Best
if done an hour a day, may be less, needs
regular attention). Adding children into our web
database, editing as a child's status changes,
updating picture, adding media links
etc.
Web
Process Volunteer -
Any
available time. Signing on to our new logon site
and acting as a family, writing script and
suggestions that will help our site be more user
friendly for families. Help to create web forms
and other ways to assist families. Help to
develop RSS feed tools, Twitter feeds and other
ways families can get immediate information on
children.
Newsletter
Volunteer -
3
newsletters a week, 1-2 hours a newsletter.
Using our outreach tool (Constant Contact) build
templates for newsletters and outreach tools. As
well as odds and ends announcements and
email outreach for recruitment. (Possible
newsletters themes-kids in need -resources
-sites to visit - articles and updates on
adoption)
Volunteer
Adoption Specialist -
Would
like each volunteer specialist to take on a # of
families to represent and work with. 5-10 hours
a week. Because of the training involved we ask
you to be able to commit to 6 months. Have you
wanted to be an adoption worker? Did you and
your family struggle through the process and
wish you had a liaison to assist you? Now is
your chance to do that for another family. We
will train you, provide materials and guidance
to assist other families, help them create bio
page, search for children, submit their studies,
follow up with workers for them, and help build
families.
Child
Specialist -
Same
as volunteer specialist above, several
hours week over several days. Add kids to our
database, make sure all need fields are checked,
photo is added, remove children as
needed.
Child Outreach
Role -
Any
number of hours you have. Contacting and
building relationships with other photo listings
to try and link each other, photo list their
kids, build partnerships to help each other
recruit for more kids.
Heart
Gallery Needs
Faith-Based
Heart Gallery Coordinator
-
Scheduling
exhibits for our 2010 faith-based Heart Gallery
calendar
Sending
letters to prospective faith-based
sites
Coordinating
site setup prior to exhibits
Maintaining
brochure inventory
Attending
one Sunday a month as an Exhibit Host Following
up with sites after an exhibit (thank you
letter, rescheduling for next year, etc.)
Soliciting
donations for needed supplies (frames, easels,
picture stands, brochure holders, etc.)
Data
entry of all of the above
Creation
of a Process Binder for all of the above (so we
can duplicate this program in other parts of the
state)
Princess
Event -
Time
to start planing! Need a coordinator and
committee to make this special day
happen.
Appreciation
Coordinator -
Send
thank-you's to our sponsors, donors, supporters,
recognize volunteer's birthdays, work effort and
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Heart
Gallery Locations
Applebee's
Arbor
South Architecture -
Eugene
Ben
White, DDS
Chris
Dental - Thurston/Pleasant
Hill
Clackamas
Branch DHS
Cottage
Grove Community
Center
Creswell
Library
Denny's
- Glenwood
Dr.
Barta - DDS
Dr.
Dave Matthews DMD -
Eugene
Elite
Fitness & Education - Bend
OR.
Eugene
Airport
Fifth
Street Market - Eugene - April
24th
Friendly
Street Market -
Eugene
Gateway
Mall - Springfield
Heritage
Mall - Albany
Home
Builders Association,
Eugene
I
- 5 Glass -
Springfield
Iron
Works Gym -
Creswell
Kendall
Auto Group - Eugene
Lakeside
Clinic - Eugene
Market
of Choice 29th Street -
Eugene
Mercedes
Benz of Eugene
Metro
Perc - Beaverton
Mike
Bratland, DDS -
Roseburg
Next
Door, Inc. - Hood
River
Oakmont
Family Dental -
Eugene
Pacific
Auto Repair -
Eugene
Pacific
Source Health Plans -
Tigard
Peace
Health Cottage Grove
Hospital
Precision
Classics & Collision -
Eugene
Prime
Med Medical Clinic - Cottage
Grove
Ray's
Food Center -
Creswell
Reflections
Hair Salon - Coburg
Siuslaw
Valley Bank -
Creswell
Siuslaw
Valley Bank
- Oakridge
Siuslaw
Valley Bank - Pleasant
Hill
Summit
Bank
Sweet
Life - Eugene
The Bookmine - Cottage
Grove
The
Dalles and Hermiston Movie
Theatres
US
Bank - Chambers & 7th -
Eugene
Wells
Fargo Bank - W. Broadway -
Eugene
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How
can you contact A Family For Every
Child?
Call,
email, or visit us online or in
person!
 880
Beltline Rd.
Springfield Oregon
97477
office - 541-343-2856
toll free
- 877-343-2856
fax - 541-343-2866
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