Olive Crest is dedicated to Preventing child abuse, to Treating and Educating at-risk children and to Preserving the family... "One Life at a Time." RTM

Olive Crest goals are to serve at-risk children and families from birth to 22 by:

• Providing safe, healing healthy homes and loving families for abused and neglected children
• Educating youth through specialized schooling, tutoring and providing education needs
• Healing wounds with individual, group and family counseling
• Keeping families together through child abuse prevention and parent education
• Encouraging well-rounded lifestyles through health, nutritional, and recreational activities

Description:
Olive Crest is an accredited, nationally recognized agency well known for the quality and distinctiveness of our programs and services. We provide a full continuum on services for foster children, foster families and biological families. Programs included are foster care, residential treatment centers, group homes, educational services and adoption, and family preservation. We serve boys and girls, birth to age 22, through programs that meet the needs of each child. The largest program in Seattle is the Foster Family agency that serves high-need children through clinical services and stable foster homes. We recruit; license, and train foster parents and support them with services to heal these children and families. Locally we also have a partnership with Antioch adoption agency. At the State's request, Olive Crest implemented a Family Preservation Program in January 2004 to provide family preservation services for at-risk families. We also have programs in Mental Health, Adoption, and Child Abuse Prevention.


History:
For over 31 years, Olive Crest has been committed to healing young lives that have been traumatized by abuse, abandonment, and/or neglect. Olive Crest has provided needed shelter, loving care, and professional treatment to over 40,000 abused children since 1973, when the agency opened its first Group Home. Since then our programs have grown both structurally and geographically. Olive Crest's outreach serves California, Nevada, and the Pacific Northwest. Olive Crest expanded into Oregon State, in January 2005, with our Child Abuse Prevention Program in the metropolitan Portland area. We were licensed by the State in July, and began foster family recruiting and placements. We opened a Tacoma office this September to better serve the Pierce County/Tacoma area. Beginning in January 2006, our next expansion will be into Eastern Washington with a Spokane Office with a Child Abuse Prevention program. For more information call 1-800-74-FOSTER or visit www.olivecrest.org.


Contact people:


Paula Head, Communications Director, (phone), (email) Betty Anderson, Administrative Assitant Development, (phone), (email) Sharon Mooers, Regional Development Director, (phone), (email)


Office fax number: (425) 462-9268

Address:


515 116th Ave. NE, Ste. 174 Bellevue, WA 98004 This location is handicap accessible (See a map)


Web Site: http://www.olivecrest.org

Directions:

This is the address of Olive Crest. The foster family's address is elsewhere. Address is confidential and will be disclosed with the volunteers who are matched for the job! Please contact us for this information.

Miscellaneous Information

Does your organization welcome court-ordered community service volunteers?
	Yes
Does your organization have volunteer positions for youth 12-18?
	Yes

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