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Hillsboro Children’s Relief Nurseries 5th Anniversary
Congratulations, Hillsboro-Main Street Children’s Relief Nursery (CRN)! This is the CRN’s 5th anniversary, and they have done an amazing job over this time. In 2011, the site was an asset transferred from A Child’s Place, a daycare center, to LifeWorks NW. For a time, Main Street housed only Child & Family Services, Healthy Families and …
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Great News for LifeWorks NW, Oregon’s Behavioral Health
“This has been a difficult time for communities and the behavioral health organizations that serve them with mental health, addiction and preventions services,” says Mary Monnat, CEO of LifeWorks NW, the largest outpatient mental health provider in Oregon. “Reports share that more than 50 percent of adult Americans are feeling COVID has negatively affected their …
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Circle of Security Supports Families
Children’s Relief Nursery-Gladstone is excited to have received a grant from Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative (OPEC) in Clackamas to expand on their Circle of Security work. The grant, written by Erin Sewell, will enable staff from both Children’s Relief Nursery-Gladstone and Children’s Relief Nursery-Hillsboro to offer two parenting classes over the next fiscal year. Circle …
Grant Supports Day Treatment Summer School
Our Tigard Day Treatment programs are excited about a $25,400 grant toward offering summer school this year. The grant was written by the NWRESD Day Treatment principal, Bethany Bowers. NWRESD partners with LifeWorks NW in Washington County to improve student learning through high-quality services and support. “Our work is guided and informed by our core …
Gambling Success Story
This is National Gambling Awareness Month, and one of LifeWorks NW’s Gambling Therapy clients wanted to share her great success story. A client we will call Helen came to LifeWorks NW Chemical Dependency (CD) program for her methamphetamine addiction. She worked with LifeWorks NW’s CD team for a long time, during which her gambling problem …
CCBHC Success Story
Less than two years ago, a consumer we’ll call Tom, came to LifeWorks NW for help. When he first came to us, he was suffering with Schizophrenia and depression, and had been homeless for 12 years. He also was using methamphetamines. Because he was very guarded and suspicious, Tom initially was difficult to engage with. …
Supported Education Success Story
“I think a lot of people feel like in society we’re discriminated against if you have a mental illness,” says Delia (not her real name). “I think letting go of how society sees people, and allowing yourself to see you as you would like to be seen, you’re more than a stigma…you’re not this damaged …