In 2006, Ophelia’s Place staff, board, and participants identified several organizations that we felt embodied similar philosophies, principles, and services for youth.  By forming partnerships with these unique and effective organizations, we better serve girls in our community.  Through sharing ideas, training, and referrals, these partnerships help strengthen our organization and our work with girls.  We are proud to be connected with organizations that work with youth in innovative, gender specific, culturally competent, and respectful ways.

Agencies that Serve Youth:

Breaking Free: www.breaking-free.net A local nonprofit committed to helping others "break free" from violence via knowledge, healing and action. Groups are co-facilitated by instructors trained to present the holistic and powerful Self-Defense from the Inside Out curriculum. Ophelia's Place offers these personal and practical empowerment classes in conjunction with Breaking Free on a regular basis.

LEAD: www.leadteen.org Leadership Education, Adventure, Direction! This exciting group for active teens supports and encourages them to make the most of talents and make a difference in the world around them. Participating teens develop a life mission to guide themselves towards their goals.

Committed Partners for Youth: www.committedpartners.org A local agency that helps connect youth to their community through mentoring. Mentors help youth to develop their personal identities, healthy relationships and meaningful opportunities.
Youth are matched with caring volunteer adults who are trained to focus on positive reinforcement, trust-building, and the achievement of goals, by engaging youth in one-on-one outings and group adventures in the community.

Girls Inc. : www.girlsincnworegon.org, www.GirlsInc.org This national nonprofit organization has a Portland center that offers girls many unique opportunities to learn, grow and become "strong, smart & bold."

Health & Mental Health Agencies:

Looking Glass: www.lookingglass.us Looking Glass is a private, nonprofit organization that each year serves more than 7,000 at-risk youth and  families in Lane County. Our agency provides a continuum of integrated services, ranging from prevention to treatment, through a variety of innovative programs. Counseling, 24-hour crisis intervention, substance abuse treatment, education and vocational training are just a few examples of the services we have to offer. Programs span the diverse fields of Mental Health, Juvenile Justice, Education, Youth Development and Workforce Readiness.

Willamette Family Treatment Center: www.wfts.org Willamette Family  is proud to be a founding member of the Oregon Treatment Network. OTN provides chemical dependency prevention, intervention, and treatment services that are more comprehensive and diverse, at less cost, and covering a wider geographical area, than any other provider in Oregon. Willamette Family also offers a special program designed for adolescent girls. ITS-GIRLS provides mental health, family, and trauma treatment services to adolescent girls aged 12-18. These programs bring a variety of services to at risk girls, including medical care, addiction treatment, mental health services, family therapy, mental health and trauma treatment services, prenatal and parenting classes, academic education, and life skills to create a future free from addiction. 

Center for Family Development: www.c-f-d.org A nonprofit counseling center that has been serving our community since 1991.The Center is committed to providing respectful, client-centered, family-foucused, culturally competent services to enhance the well-being of diverse families and individuals. Their approach encourages clients to identify and access their strengths and resources, manage conflict with safety and mutual respect, and navigate the life stressors present in today's environment. The Center offers individual and family outpatient community mental health services as well as a Youth Recovery alcohol and drug treatment program.

Community-Based Agencies:

Womenspace: www.womenspaceinc.org Womenspace has been providing services to battered women and their children for almost twenty-five years. The organization has grown from a confidentially located shelter and twenty-four hour crisis line to a multi-faceted organization that in addition to basic crisis services supports a strong, county-wide domestic violence council, a publicly located drop-in Advocacy Center, legal advocacy via a collaborative legal clinic, transitional year-long case management services, domestic violence specialists housed in local welfare and child protective service offices, three rural outreach offices, an extensive community education program offering training from the most basic to highly specialized curricula, and a host of collaborative relationships with local and federal partners.

Sexual Assault Support Services: www.sass-lane.org A non-profit organization providing community education, outreach, advocacy and support to survivors of sexual violence in Lane County and their families. SASS advocates listen, believe, support, accompany, offer information and referrals and provide peer counseling to survivors of assault past and present.

HIV Alliance: www.hivalliance.org HIV Alliance is the only nonprofit organization in Lane County, Oregon providing a comprehensive response to the challenges of HIV and AIDS. The agency educates thousands of students and other community members every year about HIV. They also provide health care referral and social services to HIV-infected clients and their families and reach out to at-risk youth, men, and women.

The Trauma Healing Project:www.healingattention.org This is a community-based effort led by survivors that includes activists,advocates, counselors, students,researchers, academics and social service providers.THP shares the belief that if we are to reduce or eliminate abuse & violence, we must provide enough support and attention for true healing from past trauma (including historical trauma and oppression.) Their model includes community engagement, research, and direct services and support for survivors.

Planned Parenthood - www.pphsso.org National organization Planned Parenthood has a separate webpage for its branch in Southwestern Oregon. This site has interactive question and answers, resource information, stories and services to teens and adults alike in Lane County. Many stories and blurbs here are also written by teens and for teens. Nationally, Planned Parenthood also offers Teen Wire: www.teenwire.com This site is another valuable resource full of interactive helpful information. In general, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) is the nation’s leading women’s health care provider, educator, and advocate, serving women, men, teens, and families. For more than 90 years, PP has done more than any other organization in the United States to improve women’s health and safety, prevent unintended pregnancies, and advance the right and ability of individuals and families to make informed and responsible choices.