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45 people are interested
Foster Care Review Board - Benton County
ORGANIZATION: Citizen Review Board
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45 people are interested
Do you want to learn about and help improve the child welfare and judicial systems? Are you willing to spend one-day every-other-month conducting administrative reviews of children in foster care? The Citizen Review Board (CRB), Oregon's Statewide Foster Care Review Program is recruiting for volunteers in Benton County to provide a citizen voice on the safety, health and well-being of children in foster care. The primary qualifications are the desire to make a difference for children and families, the ability to maintain confidentiality, and the availability to review sensitive cases and attend reviews
Our Mission
We provide a citizen voice on the safety, stability, and supervision of children in foster care through impartial case review and advocacy.
Our Vision
Citizens will shape public policy and actively promote conditions to ensure thatevery child lives in a safe, secure, healthy, and permanent home, preserving families whenever possible.
To learn more visit the CRB website at www.courts.oregon.gov/CRB or contact
Amy Church, Volunteer Coordinator, 503.986.4535, CRB.Volunteer.Resources@ojd.state.or.us
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About Citizen Review Board
Location:
1163 State Street, Salem, OR 97301, US
Mission Statement
Citizens will shape public policy and actively promote conditions which ensure that every child lives in a safe, secure, healthy, and permanent home while preserving families whenever possible, and that youth offenders become successful and productive members of society.
Description
Our County's Foster Children Need Your Help
Children in foster care need help from their community to help ensure they have a safe permanent home as soon as possible. Citizen Review Board volunteers are court appointed, and usually meet one weekday per month to provide case review and oversight of children and youth in out of home placements (foster care). Volunteers work to promote conditions that ensure that every child lives in a safe, secure, healthy, permanent home, preserving families whenever possible and that youth offenders become successful and productive members of society. Volunteer to serve on the Citizen Review Board, a program of the Oregon Judicial Department, because Every Day Counts...in the life of a child in foster Care.
To apply to be a volunteer, contact:Volunteer Resource Coordinator, Citizen Review Board, crb.volunteer.resources@ojd.state.or.us, 503.731.3391
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Department of Human Services555 NW 5thCorvallis, OR 97330
DATE POSTED
June 6, 2017
SKILLS
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- Orientation or Training
- One day every other month.