STS Conference

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. 

Developed at Oregon Social Learning Center, a non-profit research center dedicated to strengthening children, families, and communities. KEEP™ partners with sites to implement evidence-based parenting and support groups for resource/foster, kinship, and adoptive families across the U.S. and internationally. KEEP™ groups offer peer support and community for resource/foster, kinship, and adoptive parents of youth ages 2+. 

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.

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.

We honor the remarkable resilience of Oregon’s resource (foster), kinship, adoptive and guardianship children, youth & families, plus adult adoptees, and the professionals who walk alongside them all. We serve adoptive families of any kind parenting Oregon children! ORPARC services are all available at no cost. Services include: Statewide Resources, Training & Education, Specialized 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.

Swindells Resource Center supports parents and caregivers of children who have special health, behavioral or developmental needs. We provide video resources, information and education to communities throughout Oregon and southwest Washington.