Oregon
Formed in a merger in 2011, Youth Villages Oregon continues a heritage of helping children and families in the state, reaching as far back as 1859 through The Christie School. With a focus on community-based services, Youth Villages Oregon is committed to providing the most effective and cost-efficient treatment options to help build successful lives for children with emotional and behavioral issues, their families and youth aging out of state custody.
Programs
Provided to Oregon
Intercept®
Strengthening families to prevent or limit the need for foster care
Lifeset™
Helping young adults make a successful transition to adulthood
Specialized Crisis Services
Providing specially trained, crisis counselors 24 hours a day
Our Results
- Overall satisfaction with Youth Villages: 92%
- Youth living at home or independently 1 year after discharge: 86%
- Youth in school and/or employed 1 year after discharge: 94%
- Youth reporting no trouble with the law 1 year after discharge: 88%
Figures represent data gathered in FY19 for all youth served for more than 60 days across all programs.
It was a year of record growth and innovation for Youth Villages.
3,824
youth served in Oregon
Help create lasting change in Oregon
Donate
Your one-time or continuing contribution goes directly to helping children and young adults get the chance they deserve.
Campaign for LifeSet
Help us change the game for young people in Oregon.
Attend an event
Youth Villages events are a great way to support families in your local community and have a great time while you’re doing it.
stories of hope
Helping children and families live successfully
LifeSet inspires Clarita to pursue education, give back to community
At times, the hurt is too unbearable to return. When ties are cut, it can affect more than immediate family. It can reverberate through the community and sever bonds with friends, acquaintances and extended relatives. For Clarita, the pattern of hurt took a turn for the worse when she was 8 years old.
Youth Villages reroutes Mariana’s life Course
When many teenagers enter their junior year of high school, their life pathways are somewhat charted. For some, the path leads to college. For others, a trade or technical school. For still others, finding employment. But often that path is set up starting with the freshman year.
K’laja’s Journey with Youth Villages
Local Leadership
Andrew Grover
Executive Director, Oregon
Andrew Grover began his pursuit of excellence in social services as a child. Having come from a troubled home he saw life on the street, in residential programs, foster care, and juvenile corrections. At an early age he decided to dedicate his career to helping other kids like himself. That journey began working directly with troubled youth and families in residential and in-home settings.
Kandi Shearer
Assistant Director – Community-Based Programs
Shauna Lugar
Director – Development
Local Board
Charles Swindells
Chair
Attorney
Charles Swindells Law
Ann Mestrovich
Incoming Chair
Project Manager
The Standard
Bill de la Cruz
Outgoing Chair
Principal Consultant
De La Cruz Solutions
Jaquelyn Reyes Alonzo
YVScholar
Bethany Bounds
Community Advocate
David Durocher
Principal
CEM Services LLC
Ian Galloway
Oregon Community Development Regional Manager
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Alice Galloway
Community Advocate
Sister Guadalupe Guajardo
Community Advocate
Joan Horstkotte
Emeritus Member
Elijah Pahl
Director, Quality Addiction Medicine & Mental Health
Kaiser Northwest
H. Patterson Ritz
Managing Partner
Stafford Villa Properties LLC
D. Colby Schlicker
Founder
Agency X
Pete Stofle
Regional Vice President
Workboard Inc.
Contact Information
Shauna Lugar, Development Director
Ambassador Board
Youth Villages Oregon’s Ambassador Board is a group of emerging professionals in the Greater Portland area dedicated to helping young people and families live successfully. Through networking, fundraising and community outreach, the Ambassador Board works to facilitate the vision and mission of Youth Villages and create lasting and powerful change in our community.
Annually, the Ambassador Board supports our Superheroes drive across Oregon. Since the board’s founding they have helped provide backpacks and school supplies to 178 youth, and have supported 538 young people with holiday wish lists and winter essentials, raising more than $100,000 in cash and in-kind contributions.
Oregon Ambassador Board
Candace Elliott
Chair
First Tech Federal Credit Union
Gemma Nelson
Vice-Chair
EOP Law
Nicolas Ball
Barran Liebman LLP
Sam Bridgnell
Community Advocate
Ethan Eisenstein
ACA Group
Nikki Gardner
Keller Williams Realty Professionals
Sarah Levine
First Tech Federal Credit Union
Lou Junior Mariette
New York Life
Megan Neely
Community Advocate
Rachel Parrott
CircleCI
Ulises Piccini
TE Connectivity
Marcus Santangelo
ZoomInfo
Hana Watari
Pacific University Graduate Student
Daniel Whitmore
Merina+Co
Contact Information
Jonathan Whitmore, Development Manager
LOCATIONS
Administrative Office
2507 Christie Drive
Lake Oswego, OR 97034
Directions
Contact
Phone: 503-635-3416
Fax: 503-675-2258
Mailing Address
PO BOX 368
Marylhurst, OR 97036
Portland
2507 Christie Drive
Lake Oswego, OR 97034
Directions
Contact
Phone: 503-635-3416
Fax: 503-675-2258
Mailing Address
PO BOX 368
Marylhurst, OR 97036
Bend
1900 NE Division Street, Suite 201
Bend, OR 97701
Directions
Contact
Phone: 541-516-6330
Fax: 541-516-6331
Crisis: 541-516-6334
Salem
565 Union St. NE Suite 100
Salem, OR 97301
Directions
Contact
Phone: 971-719-2440
Fax: 971-719-2441
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 7303
Salem, OR 97303
