NATIONAL VOLUNTEER POSITIONS
Volunteer Photographers
We would not be here if it wasn't for all of the support from photographers. FAMILY & CHILD RECRUITMENT PROGRAM
Any number of hours can be spent, we can either train you on our system to enter state information or you can keep a record on your own and we will do the data entry. We offer support daily as you move through this role and discover new ways we can partner. We encourage "outside the box" thinking and are open to all partnership ideas. We will provide you with letters, linking templates, sponsor flyers, brochures, whatever you need. Web Bio Writers Child Listing Volunteer Targeted Email Outreach-searching for families for children in urgent need of placement Recruitment Family Liaison Coordinator-& Inquiry Specialist
Skills needed:
Graphic Design Coordinator
Social Media Assistance
Communications Coordinators-Newsletters
DEVELOPMENT/FUNDING/EVENTS
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FAMILY FINDING-NATIONAL AND LOCAL
Volunteers are needed to help reconnect foster children with those they love and those who have loved them.
The Family Finding model offers methods and strategies to locate and engage relatives of children living in foster care. The goal of Family Finding is to provide each child with the lifelong connections that only a family can offer. Family Finding volunteers work closely with caseworkers. They perform file mining, make phone calls, and search the internet for relatives or other meaningful people in the child’s life. While each case is different, the typical case takes approximately three months to complete, and 5-10 hours a month in phone calls and research.
If you like playing detective, than this is the position for you! Most roles can be performed anywhere; nationwide. All training is provided for local and nationwide volunteers.
Current needs:
· Spanish speaking volunteer: We are in need of a bilingual Spanish speaking volunteer and have deserving children waiting for the right person! Family Finding volunteers work closely with caseworkers and the Family Finding Director. They perform file mining, make phone calls, and search the internet for relatives or other meaningful people in the child's life. While each case is different, the typical case takes approximately three months to complete, and approximately 5-10 hours a month in phone calls and research. All training is provided. This volunteer can be located anywhere nationwide.
· Follow-up volunteer: This volunteer follows up on cases after the children have been reconnected with their loved ones. Follow-ups consist of phone calls and data entry. Follow-ups are made in 3, 6, 9, and 12 month intervals. All training is provided. This volunteer can be located anywhere nationwide.
· Family Finding Expert needed to learn and perform Genograms; our Family Tree project for our Family Finding Cases. We supply the software and need a volunteer, local or nationwide to learn the program and use it to complete a family tree project for a child.
· Volunteers can perform one or all of the following functions:
-File mining. This function must be performed at local DHS offices. Volunteer needs to be local.
-Internet research and phone calling. This function may be done anywhere nationwide.
-Engaging loved ones for waiting children. This function may be done anywhere nationwide.
All volunteers will be requested to pass a background check before being given access to sensitive case files.
A Family Finding Volunteer position will be a rewarding opportunity for individuals who possess skills such as:
∗ Good phone skills. Do you enjoy speaking with new people and asking for information?
∗ Internet investigative skills. With our training, you will learn how to leave no stone unturned to discover contacts for waiting children.
∗ Adoptive or foster parents can offer valuable insights to benefit deserving children.
∗ Excellent follow-up skills. Be the one who made a commitment to a child.
∗ Detail oriented. Do you have the ability to pick up on the finer points that others might miss?
∗ Sense of urgency. Every child in our program has an immediate need to connect with family.
Family Finding Volunteers
To Work Cases--How you can get involved:
∗ Join a search team
∗ Work closely with caseworkers
∗ Make phone calls
∗ Build family trees
∗ Search the internet for lost relatives
∗ Create positive supportive family connections for isolated foster children
Please let us know if you are interested, and we can get you involved in this very innovative way to not only get kids out of foster care but reconnect them to lost loved ones. We would be happy to provide you with more detailed information and to answer any of your questions.
Please contact:
Caitlin Baird
(541) 343-2856 | FAX (541) 343-2866
famfind@afamilyforeverychild.org
Matching Assistance Program
Web Page/writing Volunteer
Research, write and compile info for us to link and paste on our Web pages, especially those on the Log on site that have “coming soon” on them.
Web Process Volunteer
Signing on to our new log on 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 info on children they are interested in adopting.
Newsletter Volunteer
3 newsletters a week, 1-2 hours a newsletter
Using our outreach tool-Constant Contact-build templates for newsletters and outreach tools. Create 3 newsletters a week as well odds and ends announcements and email outreach for recruitment. (Possible Newsletters themes—Kids in need—Resources—Sites to visit – Articles and updates on adoption.
Matching Admin. Volunteer-
Any number of hours a week to assist with foundational support for the program and Director.
Help creating a program process binder, filing, data entry, outreach, faxing, scanning, creating check lists, helping with processes, Researching current programs in place in other states , Create materials and forms needed, reviewing families to make sure all time lines are being met and all material is current and effective.
Program outreach-National
Send our flyers, emails, materials to promote the Matching assistance program, link partner sites, share hour message about the program with Agencies, Adoption workers, Parent groups and Potential parent.
Research Volunteer
Researching training, articles, support, state-by-state info for our web, family support materials and notebooks, newsletters and etc…
Assess/Evaluate Families Readiness
2-3 hours per family
Evaluate a families registration with the program, evaluate their home study, recommend needed items to add or build into their bio page, evaluate for up to date, make recommendations on when and what to do to stay current and competitive.
Survey & Evaluation Volunteer
Outreach to our families, how can we do more? What is most helpful? What is not? Survey and check in with families to help us improve our program
Scholarship program
Project-help us build and run a Scholarship program for families that can’t afford the monthly fee
Matching assistance Blog-Form, Bulletin board
Help us develop information sharing tools for our log on matching assistance program.
Family Outreach Specialist
Using our on line newsletter tools you will send out Feature
E-mails of all our families to Children's Case Workers and
recruiters all over the country. This is a wonderful opportunity
to help assist families and waiting foster children connect.
Most Case Workers are searching for families and our
newsletter is a wonderful resource to assist them in finding
homes for the children they work with.
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State Representative for outreach to case workers/agencies/Heart Galleries and potential partners, in each state. This Volunteer can live anywhere in any state, all work is done on the web/email. We all know of partners, businesses, organization and others that need to be on our team. We are happen to supply you with sample letters and/or templates for emails/calls to engage partners. This can look like:
- Starting a new Heart Gallery
- Recruiting photographers
- Building Media connections
- Bringing Case workers on board to photo list their kids
- Gathering Support information for your state, county by county or city by city that we will then put on the web.
- Linking our web site with partners
- Reaching out to agencies to build relationships to help their families with our Matching Assistance Program
- Recruiting Volunteers
- Blogging about us
- Gathering email addresses for our newsletter list, this is often the first way we engage people and educate them in who we are.
- Grants/RFP's/Funding Opportunities
- Assisting other efforts/Heart Galleries/agencies in the state that we can in any way
- Any info for our web site from News Feed info about your state to child listing to support, new efforts and so on.
Any number of hours can be spent, we can either train you on our system to enter state information or you can keep a record on your own and we will do the data entry. We offer support daily as you move through this role and discover new ways we can partner. We encourage "outside the box" thinking and are open to all partnership ideas. We will provide you with letters, linking templates, sponsor flyers, brochures, whatever you need.
WEB SITE/WORK
Logo/Linking Partner volunteer: We are only as strong as our searches, so to drive traffic to us we need to be linked from as many web sites/partners as we can. We have a template and logo that we give our outreach volunteers to use to help us increase the web hits and, therefore, families. This volunteer can live anywhere in any state, all work is done on the web/email. If you would like to be involved in this effort or have web sites/businesses or partners you would like to suggest, please email info@afamilyforeverychild.org. It truly takes a Village, and we need you!
Web Editor
Skills required:
HTML/CSS/Javascript/Dreamweaver
Duties:
Maintain the various news feeds on the websites, the events page, calendar page.
Work with the web team who does the large edits while performing the small changes and uploads.
Proofread to see that the feeds show as desired.
Get daily input from google, childwelfare.gov, cherry pick relevant content for our website.
Featured Child, Featured Family, updates to the front page, keep up with relevant developments internal to AFFEC.
SEO Expert
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Skills required:
SEO, careful record keeping, HTML/CSS/Dreamweaver
Duties:
Locate sites which would have an interest or a need to reference us in their website.
(use Google keywords to do this over the first 40 pages of hits).
Supply lists of sites to the web team, who will send them templated letters.
Check lists to make sure we are not repeatedly asking the same sites to list us.
Adjust google adwords according to hit rates.
Web Programmer
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Skills Required
HTML/CSS/Javascript/PHP/MySQLi/Dreamweaver
Duties:
Team work with web coordinator to make site improvements in functionality.
Document work so that it can be understood by other web programmers.
Design, code, test, implement, and release bug fixes.
Design, code, test, implement, and release major site functionality upgrades.
National Web Site Outreach-Heart Gallery of America website-Develop list of Specialty Agencies Nations wide-Developing relationships with other photo listings for our children
Web Bio Writers
We are looking for volunteer Child web bio's. It can be a skill taking the history and needs of a child and putting them in a form that gives the family as much appropriate information as possible. We have noticed a good writer can do a lot for these kids. This volunteer doesn't need to be local and could be handled through email. Little training is involved, but you will need to complete our volunteer and confidentiality forms
Other Web Volunteer—
- Email newsletters
- Resizing images
- Proofing web pages
- Building resources/training and links for our web page
- Writing bio’s
- Working on our web page—building more web pages, enhancing what we already have.
- Building Web forms
- Build Spanish pages
- Writing Help text for the web
- Private site
- Develop a widget
- Expand Volunteer and Employment area
- Social media/Press page volunteer
- Widget volunteer
- Web Help Text Volunteer
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Legislator/politician Outreach
Because we are a 501c we cannot indorse or back any one policing. But, we think it would be in our favor to have a volunteer that is reaching out to likeminded politicians, obtaining their emails for our newsletters and educating them on whom we are. Also, educating themselves on the different issues and people that we need to be connected to in this realm. Someone that has an interest in politics and legislator would be a natural fit. This could be for Oregon and Nationally.
General Awareness Campaign "Why Not Me"
This is a general awareness and education campaign, involving media, social media, in person venues, traditional media and more. Could be a smaller traveling display that we are hoping to have circulate the community at different festivals, conventions, and small venues. We need people to man booths as well as someone to coordinate this effort.
This can also include many other kinds of "Why Not Me" outreach, such as, billboards, bus sides, sports field signs, lawn signs, posters and so on! Unlimited area and possibilities.
Policy Expert
Do you love to read policy? We can use you! We need several folks that are willing to spend time reading and understanding the policies of different states and nationally, and convert them to a format (how to, webinar, cheat sheet) that we can use to educate our staff and families as well as use on our web site. This is a role that we can direct you to sites to find policy and procedure information, that can be done from any where, with as many hours a week as you have to give.