by Our Children Oregon | May 23, 2020 | Advocacy
OFYC members Macy and Sage traveled to Salem to participate in a special opportunity. Here’s what Macy said about her experience: Macy: I was very blessed to be able to be an intern on Representative Keny-Guyer’s team during the 2020 short session. During that time I...
by Our Children Oregon | Mar 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
COVID-19 Child Welfare Changes/Updates/Resources (Updated 6/1/2021 10:26am) Overwhelmed? Questions? Please reach out to OFYC: Lisa (Lisa@ourchildrenoregon.org) Your Rights: (Oregon) Don’t forget that you have the Foster Care Ombudsman who you can reach out to with...
by Our Children Oregon | Jul 19, 2019 | Advocacy, Youth-Led Organizing
Written by Hanna D., 2019 OFYC Legislative Action Team The 2019 legislative session, in all honesty, did not go as planned. Sadly, our bill was not passed as we had hoped, but that doesn’t mean fun experiences and other successes didn’t happen. In January of this...
by Our Children Oregon | Jun 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Help Foster Youth Better the Child Welfare System The Oregon Child Welfare System and Oregon Foster Youth are in crisis. We must come together to ask our legislature to budget money for child welfare – to provide enough caseworkers, to support foster parents,...
by Our Children Oregon | Feb 12, 2019 | Advocacy
OFYC member Maddy L. travelled to Washington, D.C. in October to participate in a special opportunity. Here’s what she said about her experience: What was the opportunity? Maddy: American Institute for Research (AIR), the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs...
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