- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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3 people are interested
Safe Families for Children - Host Family
ORGANIZATION: Fostering Hope Initiative
Please visit the new page to apply.
- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
-
3 people are interested
Safe Families for Children(tm) - Families Helping Families in Crisis
The goal of the SFFC ministry is to offer support, co-parenting, in a time of need and reunite children with their families in a stronger home environment. This temporary care for children in need gives parents time to establish stability in their homes. Parents voluntarily place their children with a Host Family because of any number of challenges they are facing, such as:
- Sudden unemployment or loss of housing
- Financial difficulties
- Postpartum depression
- Acute illness or hospitalization
- Financial instability
- Domestic violence
- Drug or alcohol addiction
- Incarceration of one parent
Safe Families for Children is not Foster Care or Adoption
Safe Families for Children is an alternative to foster care. In foster care, children are placed into homes through the courts and foster families receive compensation for their care. Through SFFC, parents voluntarily place their children in the care of a volunteer Host Family.
Become a Host Family
Hosting with Safe Families for Children is a very rewarding opportunity to be a part of a social movement and create a postiive impact in a child's life. When a family experiencing a crisis contacts Safe Families for Children, our Host Families who have already completed a background check, application, and a home visit, have the ability to volunteer to host a child in their home at whatever time they are available and able to. With assistance from Safe Families for Children, SFFC Family Friends, their church, and other Safe Families for Children volunteers, our Host Families are supported and encouraged throughout the hosting.
More opportunities with Fostering Hope Initiative
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Fostering Hope Initiative
Location:
3737 Portland Rd NE, Salem, OR 97301, US
Mission Statement
Imagine...every child and youth in every neighborhood growing up in a safe, stable, nurturing home, enjoying good health, succeeding in school, and continuing on to financial self-sufficiency.
Description
Fostering Hope Initiative is a neighborhood-based collective impact initiative designed to strengthen families, mobilize neighborhoods and promote optimum child and youth development. It is a partnership of nonprofits, schools, businesses, local government, the faith community and parents joining together with a common goal.
Fostering Hope Initiative Neighbor Connectors
Strategically located in neighborhoods where needs are high and resources are few, each of our Neighbor Connectors becomes an expert in knowing the needs of the neighborhood and meeting those needs in sustainable ways.
Safe Families for Children
A network of volunteer host families provide loving homes where parents can place their children in times of crisis and have the support to work through challenges without fear of losing custody of their children.
Father Taaffe Homes
Expecting and single mothers ages 12 to 20 are given a safe and nurturing environment to gain knowledge and skills in prenatal care, parenting, running a household, and creating healthy social connections to help them succeed as a single mother.
Strengthening, Preserving, and Reunifying Families
A unique, intensive treatment program for families who are struggling with the challenges of substance abuse. Counseling and support services are provided in a healthy, nurturing treatment community with safe, stable housing and child care.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
Your HomeSalem, OR 97303
DATE POSTED
March 7, 2017
SKILLS
- Youth Services
- Crisis Intervention
- Child Welfare
- Child Care
- Hospitality
- Relationship Building
GOOD FOR
- Kids
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 25
- Orientation or Training
- Extremely Flexible
- Physically fit & emotionally stable to support child, refrain from profanity, alcohol & drugs.