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Children, Family and Community Connections
Children, Family and Community Connections
Children, Family and Community Connections
ClackCo’s Veterans Employment Program is here to help
If you know a veteran who needs help finding or keeping a job, Clackamas County’s Veterans Employment Program is here for them.
Board Seeks Public Input Regarding Community Development Block Grant
County preparing an application for Child Care Scholarships
Clean Slate Clackamas
“Grow a Vibrant Economy” is one of the priorities identified in the county’s Performance Clackamas plan. It can be a challenge for hiring managers to find skilled and motivated employees to power that economy, though – especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Preschool Promise
Preschool Promise (PP) is a state funded Early Learning Division program that provides high quality, culturally relevant preschool opportunities to children ages 3 and 4. To qualify families must live at, or below, 200% of the federal poverty guidelines.
The primary goals for this program are to:
- Support young children to thrive and succeed in school and life.
- Allow families to choose the preschool which best meets their needs.
- Provide a common set of high standards to promote school readiness and active family engagement.
- Provide culturally and linguistically responsive services and opportunities for underrepresented families.
- Work with local Head Start programs, K-12 schools, child care programs, and community based-organizations.
There are in-person and distance preschool options with availability for the 2022-2023 school year with programs in Canby, Sandy, Gladstone, Lake Oswego, Happy Valley, Milwaukie and Damascus.
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Responding to Domestic Violence
Survivors of domestic violence are not alone.
Domestic violence is a public health, law enforcement, legal system, child abuse and financial crisis. Those that experience domestic violence in Clackamas County have a variety of services available to them. These agencies and programs work together to decrease the trauma related to accessing services. In particular, the county is fortunate to have A Safe Place Family Justice Center available for survivors and their children.
The county employs a full-time Domestic Violence Systems Coordinator to provide support, coordination and consultation to the community response to domestic violence.
Domestic Violence Services in Clackamas County
Founded in 2013, A Safe Place Family Justice Center is based on best practices in the field of domestic violence. The Center provides a trauma-informed, coordinated and collaborative system to support survivors of family violence. Behind its doors, multiple organizations are available to respond to the needs of survivors, reducing the necessity of victims to seek services at multiple sites throughout the county.
Phone: 503-655-8600
256 Warner Milne Road
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Clackamas Women's Services (CWS) provides services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, elder abuse, dating violence, and stalking. CWS utilizes trauma-informed care, rapid re-housing, a confidential/emergency shelter that utilizes a unique Village Model approach, a Legal Empowerment Accelerator Program (LEAP).
Phone: 888-654-2288 (24-hour crisis and support line)
A Safe Place
256 Warner Milne Road
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Aculturally-specific (Latinx), trauma-informed home that provides free, temporary housing, case coordination and advocacy for women and minor children affected by domestic violence. Participants in the shelter work with an advocate to remove barriers to service, receive recovery support and develop a plan for their future including housing, employment and other needs.
Phone: 503-974-9882
6200 SE King Road
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UNICA is the domestic and sexual violence branch of El Program Hispano Catolico. UNICA's goal is to provide support, advocacy and opportunity for self-empowerment, enabling survivors to exercise free and informed life choices.
Phone: 503-232-4448 (24/7, Always free and confidential)
Gresham
Closed to walk-ins.
The mission of the Clackamas County District Attorney's Victim Assistance Program is to involve crime victims and the community in a process that helps to diminish the devastating impact of crime. Oregon Law assures that victims have rights in a criminal case; some rights are automatic while others have to be requested. The Victim Assistance Program uses staff as well as trained volunteers to meet the needs of crime victims.
Phone: 503-655-8616
707 Main St.
Suite 201
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Projects and Programs
The mission of the Clackamas County FVCC is to provide an interagency forum for developing, implementing, and assessing the coordinated response to domestic violence in Clackamas County. The FVCC is part of a county-wide effort to provide for the safety and well-being of survivors and accountability of offenders to reduce the incidence of domestic violence. The group meets monthly. Contact Sarah Van Dyke at svandyke@clackamas.us for more information.
Strangulation Response Initiative
A multi-disciplinary group of professionals focused on improving the identification and response to non-fatal strangulation in Clackamas County. The SRI has developed protocols and other tools to improve the detection, documentation and response to cases of domestic violence strangulation as well as increase the accountability of offenders. In addition to the protocols that will guide the work of responders, the continual education and training of law enforcement, dispatch, advocates, courts, medical personnel and others is a priority of the SRI.
- Strangulation can be lethal — unconsciousness can occur within seconds and death within minutes.
- Non-lethal strangulation carries with it serious physical and emotional consequences for the survivor.
- Upwards of 50% of domestic violence victims have also experienced strangulation.
- 70% of women in domestic violence shelters reporting being strangled.
- Strangulation is a strong predictor of future lethality for the victim.
Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team (DVFRT)
Reviewing domestic violence fatalities that occur in Clackamas County and making recommendations to prevent future domestic violence fatalities by:
- Improving communication between public and private organizations and agencies
- Determining the number of domestic violence fatalities occurring in the team's county and the factors associated with those fatalities
- Identifying ways in which community response might have intervened to prevent a fatality
- Providing accurate information about domestic violence to the community
- Generating recommendations for improving community response to and prevention of domestic violence
- Collecting and summarizing data to demonstrate the statistical occurrence of domestic violence fatalities
In order to close the gap between identification of the crime and vital medical assessment, the Oregon Strangulation Forensic Evidence Kit was developed by the Clackamas County Strangulation Initiative (SRI) in 2020.
This website is to support first responders, medical personnel, advocates, and communities currently participating in the program, as well as those interested in bringing SKITS to their jurisdictions.
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Services for Businesses
We offer assistance to businesses to help them find great employees. Our trained staff work directly with hiring managers and business owners to identify qualified candidates and place them in positions where they can succeed. We also work with the new employees to help support them as they transition smoothly into their new position—greatly reducing turnover.
Services we provide
Applicant screening
Our trained screeners identify high-quality job applicants that meet your specific requirements.
Access to financial incentives
We can help connect employers and businesses to a range of tax incentives and wage reimbursements that help make hiring through our programs more economical.
Established worker pool
Our pool of screened job seekers is ready to hire with very little lead time and an efficient hiring process. We can get you the help you need, including facilitating access to work-ready applicants such as veterans and people with disabilities.
Ongoing support from Workforce Specialists
Our Workforce Specialists work directly with you and your new employee to reduce turnover and ensure the new worker transitions smoothly into your business.
Use of the employment resource center
If you need space to interview applicants, or you would like to sit down with one of our employment specialists, our employment resource center is available for you. Our Workforce Specialists are ready to help you find great employees for your business.
For more information on any of our programs, please contact Jennifer Harvey at jharvey@clackamas.us
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