Every Child Curry expands camps, tutoring and trainings to support foster families on the South Coast

Every Child Curry is mobilizing community supports for foster and resource families on Oregon’s South Coast, including immediate-help programs, tutoring, summer camps and caregiver trainings, episode participants said.

"They have a My Neighbor tangible needs program," Bonnie L. said, describing a public-facing online list where community members can supply clothing, shoes, diapers and other items that children often lack when entering care. "This kiddos need shoes, you know, clothes... community members can help meet those tangible needs."

The group also runs a Brookings tutoring-enrichment program that buses children from school to one-on-one tutoring and a second hour of enrichment activities such as gardening, baking and woodworking, Bonnie said. She highlighted foster-parent-night-out volunteer shifts and a grieving-and-loss support grant that provides regular connection for caregivers.

Bonnie recounted restarting regional resource-family camps after COVID using a Ford Family Foundation grant and expanding to a Tri-County camp that this year includes Camp Myrtlewood and partners from Douglas County. "We brought back summer camp for resource families... and it became a Tri County camp," she said.

On training, Bonnie identified Mindy Hain as Every Child’s director and said Hain has become a practitioner in Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). Bonnie said TBRI trainings—offered with meals and childcare—are being scheduled for resource parents in Curry and neighboring counties.

For those seeking to get involved, Bonnie directed listeners to Every Child’s online connect form at everychildoregon.org/curry and said the group hosts virtual "explore fostering" events and an in-person June session in Brookings at Umbrella Farms.

No formal actions or policy votes were recorded in the episode; the segment focused on community programs and recruitment.