YOU'VE HELPED US KEEP 60 DOORS OPEN IN MARION AND POLK COUNTY.
HELP US REACH ALL 250.
Throughout 2025, our team has worked with 60 case in our Love Box and Dare to Dream programs - a total of 131 youth.
But Marion and Polk county have 250 foster homes. We want to reach all of them.​

Keep the doors open.

GIVE ONCE

GIVE MONTHLY

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177 foster youth (7.3%) aged out or were emancipated in 2024.

69% of Marion County's general foster homes have closed in the last decade.

38% of youth experiencing foster care in Oregon have had three or more placements.

53.1% of youth experiencing foster care in Oregon don't graduate high school in four years - 46.6% in five years.

​​But we believe it doesn't have to be this way.

LEARN MORE ABOUT LOVEBOX

LEARN MORE ABOUT DARE TO DREAM

View the data sources here.

A few minutes can change a life forever. ​It has the power to change yours, too.​​

The ripple effects of spending time in foster care can look like  academic instability, homelessness, incarceration, and mental health challenges. The ripple effects of investing just a few minutes in the powerful potential of this community can result in cycles broken. It can bring hope for the future. Watch this short story to learn from a youth in Dare to Dream on how mentorship changed his course in life.

Learn about how our programs change lives.

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HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED

refer

Refer a foster or kinship family or youth to our programs.

volunteer

Walk alongside a local fostering family through the ​Love Box® program.

mentor

Mentor a youth through our Dare to Dream program™​.

invest

​Be part of sustainable change in the foster care community.

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​MISSION ​STATEMENT:
​The Salem Angels mission is to walk alongside children, youth, and families in the foster care community by offering consistent support through intentional giving, relationship building, and mentorship.

OUR MISSION

Salem Angels (EIN #85-3868206) is covered as an Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) organization as a subordinate under the group exemption of Transformations by Austin Angels (EIN #27-2087142). Documentation here.