Coffee Creek Welcome Wagon
Tax deductible
“I’m not what I have done, I’m what I have overcome.”
Women releasing from Coffee Creek Correctional Facility often do not have the help or support needed to get back on their feet. Many release with only one outfit, provided by the Department of Corrections, and nothing else. The goal of Overcome is to provide an additional outfit, hygiene supplies, and a warm welcome back into society.
Our goal is to raise $10,000 (or more!) to purchase a WELCOME WAGON. This Welcome Wagon will be a cargo trailer we intend to renovate (with the help of community agencies) into a mobile boutique, complete with a dressing room, clothing racks, and shelving. Our vision is to have the Welcome Wagon be run by formerly incarcerated women who have lived experience and expertise of navigating re-entry.
Your donation will go to purchasing the cargo trailer and supplies needed for renovation, as well as any other security add-ons needed for protection.
This effort is a new program through The Family Preservation Project (FPP) via the YWCA of Greater Portland. FPP promotes individual and system level change to reduce the collateral consequences of parental incarceration on children, families, and the community. This occurs through various programs, such as the Intensive Family Reunification Program, the Family Resource Center, a Monthly Speaker Series, and the Between the Lines program.
Check us out at https://www.ywcapdx.org/what-we-do/family-preservation-project/ or on Facebook @FamilyPreservationProject.
Please join us at our in-person fundraiser at Cider Riot (807 NE Couch St.) on June 2nd, 2018 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.!
The schedule of the event is as follows:
6:00pm—eat, drink, be merry!
6:30pm—introductions
7:00pm—showing of documentary film “Mothering Inside”
7:40pm— intermission
8:00pm— Q&A and moderated panel discussion with formerly incarcerated mothers
8:40 — informal mingle time with Family Preservation Project Alums and members of Oregon NOW
Women releasing from Coffee Creek Correctional Facility often do not have the help or support needed to get back on their feet. Many release with only one outfit, provided by the Department of Corrections, and nothing else. The goal of Overcome is to provide an additional outfit, hygiene supplies, and a warm welcome back into society.
Our goal is to raise $10,000 (or more!) to purchase a WELCOME WAGON. This Welcome Wagon will be a cargo trailer we intend to renovate (with the help of community agencies) into a mobile boutique, complete with a dressing room, clothing racks, and shelving. Our vision is to have the Welcome Wagon be run by formerly incarcerated women who have lived experience and expertise of navigating re-entry.
Your donation will go to purchasing the cargo trailer and supplies needed for renovation, as well as any other security add-ons needed for protection.
This effort is a new program through The Family Preservation Project (FPP) via the YWCA of Greater Portland. FPP promotes individual and system level change to reduce the collateral consequences of parental incarceration on children, families, and the community. This occurs through various programs, such as the Intensive Family Reunification Program, the Family Resource Center, a Monthly Speaker Series, and the Between the Lines program.
Check us out at https://www.ywcapdx.org/what-we-do/family-preservation-project/ or on Facebook @FamilyPreservationProject.
Please join us at our in-person fundraiser at Cider Riot (807 NE Couch St.) on June 2nd, 2018 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.!
The schedule of the event is as follows:
6:00pm—eat, drink, be merry!
6:30pm—introductions
7:00pm—showing of documentary film “Mothering Inside”
7:40pm— intermission
8:00pm— Q&A and moderated panel discussion with formerly incarcerated mothers
8:40 — informal mingle time with Family Preservation Project Alums and members of Oregon NOW
Fundraising team: Family Preservation Project (6)
Family Preservation Project
Organizer
Portland, OR
Ywca Of Greater Portland
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
Cohen Allie
Team member
Dillan Taylor
Team member
Jessica Katz
Team member
Recycled Living
Team member
