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About the #PinkPatchProject
The Clackamas County Sheriff's Office is once again participating in the #PinkPatchProject to promote breast cancer awareness.
The Sheriff's Office is also selling a brand-new, 2024-exclusive pink patch to raise funds for Willamette Falls Hospital's Carol Danielson Suzuki Cancer Center.
As part of #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, throughout October you'll see our deputies wearing badges embroidered in pink stitching to promote breast cancer awareness.
You can also help raise awareness — and support Willamette Falls Hospital's cancer-fighting efforts — by buying one of our pink shoulder patches.
A new patch design for 2024
This year, the Sheriff's Office is trying something new: offering an exclusive 2024 pink patch with a new design.
(NOTE: The exclusive 2024 patch is currently sold out. Online orders remain open for the rest of October, and will be fulfilled when the 2024 patches are restocked.)
You can also order a pink K9-themed patch and the "legacy" pink-patch design used in previous years.
Patches are just $10 each, and there are two ways to purchase:
- IN PERSON: Order a patch in person at the Public Safety Training Center (12700 SE 82nd Ave Clackamas, OR 97015) during normal business hours. (NOTE: The exclusive 2024 patch is currently sold out. Online orders remain open for the rest of October, and will be fulfilled when the 2024 patches are restocked.)
- ONLINE: Click here, then select "Pink Patch" as your gift application.
Help provide 'navigators' for cancer patients
This year, all patch-sale proceeds will once again go to the Providence Willamette Falls Medical Foundation Endowment Fund for the Carol Danielson Suzuki Cancer Center, located right here in Clackamas County.
Cancer is an overwhelming experience. On top of the stress and emotions that accompany a cancer battle, there's a lot to keep track of: appointments, treatments, medications, changes to your diet and more . Your patch purchase helps patients through these challenges by supporting an endowment that pays for "patient navigators" and other support staffers whose services and programs are not covered by insurance.
Patient navigators guide cancer patients through the treatment process -- making appointments, ensuring they get to treatments, helping them cope with sudden lifestyle changes, and helping them get back to their normal lives after treatment.
