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Sam Shogren & Associates
Our Principal, Sam Shogren, was appointed to Washington County’s Arts, Heritage and Humanities Coalition by the Washington County Board of Supervisors in January of 2007. This month Sam assumed a leadership position within the Coalition by volunteering to steer the Coalition’s efforts at rewriting the Washington County’s Cultural Plan. The Coalition was formed at the County level in response to the formation of the Oregon Cultural Trust by the state legislature in 2001. Today the Coalition re-grants funds given the County by the Oregon Cultural Trust. And in accordance with the initial legislation of the Cultural Trust each county and tribe in Oregon must revisit and revise their cultural plan every 5 years. To contribute to the revision of the County plan, please contact Sam directly or through the County Cultural Coalition.
For more information please visit:
The Washington County Cultural Coalition Website at:
http://www.westsideculturalalliance.org/wccc/index.htm or,
the Oregon Cultural Trusts Website at:
http://www.culturaltrust.org/home/index.php
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We are pleased to announce that Journeys of the Heart Adoption Services located in Hillsboro, Oregon joined a distinguished group of Hague Convention certified international adoption agencies on Febuary 29th! (see www.travel.state.gov/family/adoption/convention/convention_4169.html# for a complete list)
Sam has worked with the Journey’s staff and Board for the past 14 months on the Agency’s challange of facing a dual accreditation crisis. Not only did Journeys need to be reaccredited by the governing authority, the Council on Accreditation (COA), during 2007, but it faced the need to achieve a higher, potentially agency closing benchmark.
2007 marked the move by the US State Department to enact the rules need to comply with the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoptions to fully implement the Convention on April 1, 2008. All American adoption agencies that wanted to continue to work internationally are required to meet new tougher standard and achieve a certification by COA and the US State Department as “Hague Accredited.”
Sam’s leadership and work with Journeys on both accreditations included:
- Coordination of staff efforts
- Coordination of leadership team effort
- Internal auditing of Agency compliance with policy
- Review, clarifying, streamlining and updating of all agency policies
- Review and completion of two 430 page internal self-studies
- Coordination of Stakeholder surveys
- Coordination of the On-Site visit by the COA Review Team
- Writing the agency’s new Hague Policy Manual
- Board briefings
- Agency Liaison to the accrediting body - the Council on Accreditation
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