How You Can Help -- Foster Care
With this issue of the Social Justice Newsletter an effort is being made to help CCOP parishioners find ways to help foster parents and foster children and foster youth.
We have begun collecting information about
- Adoption
- Foster parenting
- Aiding foster parents
- Aiding children/youth entering the foster care system
- Mentoring foster children/youth
- Advancing public understanding
- Advocacy
- Volunteer opportunities
Please let us know your interests. Send an email to SJ email.
Seneca Center
Seneca Center is a well-respected and well-run non-profit organization offering foster care and adoption services, community-based services, school-based services, and a training institute, link.
Volunteer Opportunities
Whether you decide to get involved in a specific event or make a long-term commitment, you can make a difference in the life of a child.
Work Parties Work parties give you and a group of your colleagues, friends or family an opportunity to spend an afternoon on a specific project such as painting a classroom, planting flowers, or building a play structure. Our staff will help coordinate the event, ensuring that it is fun and easy for you and your group.
Sponsor a Family for the Holidays Often, the families who come to us are experiencing the most challenging time of their lives, both emotionally and financially. You can make a difference to a family by providing a Thanksgiving meal or donating holiday gifts for the children of a family in need. Become a Sponsor and help a family to have a magical holiday season.
Host a "Friend-Raiser" Do you like the work we do? Want to help spread the word? By hosting a small, informal gathering of friends and family, you can help us to educate people about the unique challenges that our children and family face and the resources and services we are providing so that they may grow and thrive.
The head of Seneca Center's Development Department, Maggie Ferril, is temporarily unavailable. The Social Justice Committee will contact her as soon as possible to explore possible connections with individuals and groups at CCOP.
East Bay Community Services
East Bay Community Services is headquartered in Livermore and provides a variety of services to foster youth and at-risk youth. See link..
Opportunities to show your skills: clerical/administrative/secretarial, accounting, recruiting/outreach, computer support, web content publisher, outbound phone calls, courier services & translation services (bilingual Spanish skill greatly appreciated).
This would also be a great opportunity to gain experience in marketing, non-profit sphere, mental health, and administrative work.
If you think you have the right stuff please call or email regarding your interest and availability. Office: 925-961-8045, EBCS email.
Other Opportunities
9 Ways to Help Foster Kids (Without Becoming a Foster Parent) (from Yahoo! Voices website), link
Mentor Foster Care Youth, link. Click on "Show All 27 Opportunities" in lower right-hand corner of web page
Adopt US Kids (sponsored by the U.S. Government's Children's Bureau), link
