STS Conference

BBBSCNW helps children realize their full potential and build their futures by providing dedicated one-to-one mentors to each child who comes through our door. Our goal is to use the power of life changing mentoring relationships to help youth improve their academic achievement, empower them to make positive life choices, graduate from high school, have higher aspirations, greater confidence, and positive & supportive relationships.

Building connections for a lifetime to improve the well-being of children. Boys & Girls Aid strives to find lifelong connections for children who face abuse and neglect. Founded in 1885, we continue to help Oregon’s children find permanent homes through adoption, while providing temporary shelter for children in transition.

CASA of Clackamas County recruits, trains, and supports court appointed special advocates; community volunteers who advocate for the best interest of children in teh foster care system who need safe, permanent homes.

A non-profit organization based in Seattle, Washington dedicated to training and on-going education for professionals in the mental health, counseling, addictions, and adoption fields. Cascadia Training is an NBCC‐Approved Continuing Education Provider (Provider #: 6475). (recognized by NASW Oregon State Chapter)

In 1993, Friends of the Children opened its doors with three friends serving 24 children. Today, Friends of the Children – Portland has 50 Friends guiding, supporting and mentoring almost 500 children across the Portland/Vancouver metropolitan area. Our mission is to provide our most vulnerable children a nurturing and sustained relationship with a professional mentor who teaches positive values and has attainable expectations for each child to become a healthy, productive member of the community.

Greater Oregon Behavioral Health Inc. (GOBHI)'s therapeutic foster care program serves youth experiencing the ODHS foster care system with a mission to provide advocacy, intervention, and support to interrupt generational trauma, build healthy communities, and develop stable, connected children and families. GOBHI's foster care program sprang from seeing the need for safe places for foster youth to land throughout the state. The result is that we are uniquely poised to connect foster youth and foster families so they can thrive. 

A non-profit organization that delivers specialized services to children, from birth through age 18, and families coping with adversity and trauma.

Works to enrich the lives of our Native youth and families through education, community involvement, and culturally specific programming.

Oregon Kinship Navigator(OKN) is housed within the Children’s Team at Greater Oregon Behavioral Health, Inc. (GOBHI). OKN staff members are located throughout the state of Oregon and bring unique knowledge of both the urban and rural communities of Oregon. In the state of Oregon, approximately 30,000 kids are being raised in relative care. OKN aims to provide support, guidance, and resources to those families throughout their parenting journey. OKN offers opportunities to connect with other relative caregivers and parenting support, resource referral, and a legal resource guide and specializes in working with families both in and outside of the child welfare system.

Serving Oregon DHS Adoptive, Guardianship, Kinship & Resource/Foster Families, and professionals who support them. ORPARC services are all available at no cost. Services include: Statewide Resources, Training & Education, Consultation, and Specialty Library. ORPARC is a program of the non-profit agency Northwest Resource Associates.

A statewide association operating within the foster, relative, and adoptive community. To improve the quality of the foster care system in Oregon and make Oregon foster homes the best they can be. Allowing each Oregon foster placement to become a home of safety and healing for Oregon's most vulnerable children.