Clackamas Women's Services

Housing program:cws provides a continuum of housing Services designed to support survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, and related forms of violence in achieving safety and long-term housing stability. Services include diversion and homelessness prevention, housing navigation, rapid re-housing, transitional housing, permanent supportive housing, and wraparound advocacy and case management. Cws serves as the domestic and sexual violence coordinated entry provider for Clackamas county, helping ensure survivors are connected to safe and appropriate housing resources across the community. The program serves over 400 households annually and is designed to address barriers commonly experienced by survivors, including financial instability, trauma-related health impacts, and challenges accessing safe and affordable housing. During the reporting year, cws implemented health-related social needs (hrsn) housing and navigation Services to support eligible survivors in accessing housing stabilization and related health-supporting resources.through individualized advocacy, safety planning, resource connection, and financial and stability-focused support, cws assists survivors in obtaining and maintaining safe housing while strengthening long-term stability and connection to community resources. The program serves households across multiple stages of housing need and works in coordination with community partners and public systems to improve housing access and long-term safety outcomes for survivors and their families.

Shelter program:cws responded to more than 2,000 contacts through its 24-hour crisis and support line and confidential text and chat line. The village emergency shelter provided over 7,500 nights of shelter to survivors of domestic and sexual violence, elder abuse, stalking, and trafficking. Of the 155 adults and children served in emergency shelter, 75% exited to safe and stable housing, including 45% who transitioned to the cws housing program.during the reporting year, cws launched the safe pets program to reduce barriers to safety for survivors with companion animals. The program focuses on building partnerships with animal care providers, developing training and program infrastructure, providing limited financial assistance and supportive programming, and expanding access to pet-inclusive housing. Cws will hire a safe pets program coordinator to support implementation. The program serves survivors of domestic and sexual violence and their companion animals.

Community based Services program:cws provides confidential, trauma-informed community-based advocacy, case management, and system navigation Services for adults, youth, and families impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, and related forms of violence. Services are delivered through co-located advocacy sites, mobile and out-stationed community partnerships, and coordinated community response systems. Services include crisis intervention, safety planning, legal and medical accompaniment, and connection to housing, counseling, and economic stabilization resources. A core component of service delivery occurs through a safe place family justice center, where cws serves as the lead community-based advocacy provider within a multidisciplinary, co-located service model designed to provide coordinated access to advocacy, legal system navigation, and linkage to shelter, housing, and other supportive Services. Cws supported over 1,000 survivors accessing Services through the a safe place family justice center, in addition to providing ongoing Services to survivors engaged in multi-year or long-term support.cws also provides specialized sexual assault Services and culturally specific latinx Services. Sexual assault Services include confidential advocacy, crisis response, medical and forensic accompaniment, and multidisciplinary coordination through hospital partnerships, mobile response, and sexual assault response team collaboration. The latinx Services program provides culturally and linguistically responsive advocacy, outreach, counseling, and case management, including peer-based outreach through the promotoras model and partnerships with culturally specific organizations to reduce barriers related to language access, immigration concerns, and systemic inequities.

Counseling and support Services program:cws provides trauma-specific mental health counseling for survivors of domestic and sexual violence, trafficking, child abuse, and elder abuse. Services include individual, family, and group therapy delivered by licensed clinicians with specialized training in trauma and expertise in the complex dynamics of interpersonal violence and the systems survivors navigate. Clinicians utilize evidence-based and trauma-informed modalities, including emdr, trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (tf-cbt), applied suicide intervention skills training (asist), collaborative problem solving, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based practices. Services are delivered across multiple certified counseling sites and in community-based settings, including homes, shelters, and telehealth, to reduce barriers and increase equitable access to care.prevention education program:cws is the primary provider of sexual and dating violence prevention programming in Clackamas county schools and reaches thousands of students annually through classroom-based prevention education. Using curriculum focused on k-12 students, cws brings vitally needed expertise and evidence-based programming to local classrooms in both rural and urban communities. Developmentally appropriate lessons range from how to identify abuse to building positive relationships, understanding media influences, and respecting differences such as gender identity or cultural background. Our violence prevention education team regularly connects students with our youth advocates, who serve as a conduit to cws' youth Services program. Youth Services program:the cws youth Services program provides trauma-informed advocacy, mentoring, and skill-building support for children, youth, and families impacted by domestic and sexual violence, dating violence, and child abuse. Services are grounded in hope theory and research on positive childhood experiences (pces) and are designed to reduce the long-term social, emotional, and health impacts of childhood trauma while strengthening resilience and connection.core programming includes camp hope Oregon, a summer camp and mentoring program for youth impacted by violence, and pathways to hope, which provides year-round mentoring, family engagement, and therapeutic and skill-building group activities, including art-based and caregiver support groups. Additionally, youth advocates are stationed onsite at school-based health centers to support students and provide mobile Services throughout the community. Together, these programs create a continuum of support that promotes safety, healing, and long-term stability for youth and families.