The Boys & Girls Aid Society (or Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon) is a non-profit organization that provides services to children in crisis in the state of Oregon, USA.
The Boys & Girls Aid Society of Oregon was founded in 1885 by a group of community leaders and people from the business community. This non-profit organization started as an orphanage, and it is considered by some as a pioneer in applying the Foster care model instead of the typical orphanage model. Later on, the services provided by the organization included a wider range of services for children in different age groups. The organization grew into several branches in different parts of the state of Oregon.
The organization's mission is to help children in crisis, this has been its mission for over 120 years. It has also evolved from an agency that takes care of adoption to a wider range of services for children in need. It currently has many programs that serve older children and even young adults that need help in a time of crisis. The organization’s prospective is to be able to provide help to all the children in the area that require such care.
The Boys and Girls Aid have helped in more than seventy-thousand adoptions. The annual report for the years 2004 – 2005 recorded about 1,236 children who have been helped by the organization during that year. About two hundred of whom been helped in the prevention program that involves children who are mentored by a responsible adult. About seven hundred were in the intensive services, these children receive care during times of crisis. More than three hundred were placed in loving adoptive homes. Both prevention and remedial services help more than 75,000 children a year.