Caseworkers
What is OCA Gateway?
OCA Gateway is an online system designed for you to request goods and services for vulnerable families and children you serve. Enter a request today and it will be sent via email to the volunteers in your area tomorrow morning. When a volunteer chooses to meet your need you will get an email with their phone number and email address so you can connect and handle the need. It is that simple!
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What is “Matching an Offer?”
If a volunteer has something they want to give, instead of waiting for a need, the volunteer can enter an offer. Offers are then emailed to caseworkers in the area. If a caseworker has a need for what is offered, they can match the offer in the system to receive the item or service for their client.
Still have questions?
If you have further questions about OCA Gateway please email us at familysupport@orphancarealliance.org
Family Support
We desire to serve foster families, adoptive families, and relative families.
Foster Care Informational Meeting
We offer the two hour foster care informational meetings that is approved by the state and required prior to starting foster parent training.
Community Impact Scholarship
We provide scholarships that assist qualified individuals to receive specialized therapies, counseling, and mental health services often not covered by insurance.
Connect Groups
OCA Connect is an opportunity for foster and adoptive parents to journey together by meeting monthly for support and encouragement.
Adoption Loans & Grants
OCA offers adoption loans and grants through our partnership with Lifesong for Orphans.
Adoption Option
Adoption Option is a class that helps to educate individuals and families about each of the following adoption options: International Adoption, Private/Domestic, Embryo Adoption, Foster to Adopt.
Family Care
OCA offers a 90-day intense case management program to assist relatives caring for children needing wrap around support.
OCA Gateway
OCA Gateway is an online system designed for you to request goods and services for vulnerable families and children you serve.
Respite Care Training
OCA offers the three hour respite care training approved by the state for individuals to provide respite care for foster families in Kentucky.
Family Preservation
Family care
OCA offers a 90-day intense case management program to assist families on thr margin of losing their children to foster care.
OCA Restore
OCA Restore is a respite care ministry, designed to bring restorative care to families on the margin of losing their children to foster care and relatives caring for children needing support.
Families Count
For families in need of parenting classes, OCA equips churches to lead 6 week parenting classes which include transportation, meal, childcare, and training developed by partnership with Lifeline Children Services Families Count™ Program.
Life Coaching
Connecting mentors with youth and young adults with foster, adoption, and relative care experience to provide healthy relationship on their journey through life.
Youth Under 18
OCA connects Life Coaches with foster and relative care youth 12+ who needs a positive mentor to journey with them through foster care and/or relative care. We desire to help provide healthy positive relationship for foster and relative care youth to begin overcoming their past and regaining trust in adults that are encouraging them on there journey.
Young Adult
OCA connects Life Coaches with foster and/or adoption experience who needs a positive mentor to journey through life with as a young adult. We desire to help provide healthy relationship for young adults walking though the stages of adulthood. We want to encourage and challenge them to overcome their past and thrive as healthy impactful adults.
How it works…
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All of our Life Coaches are background checked, interviewed, and trained by OCA Staff, to ensure the young people we serve are safe.
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We ask our Coaches to meet with their mentees weekly for one calendar year, so they can have consistent and ongoing support.
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Mentees must be:
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Age 12 +
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Have foster care, adoption, or relative care experience
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Be willing to connect weekly with their Life Coach for one calendar year
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