FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
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Mission Statement
VISION: By joining together, we will end family trauma in our community. MISSION: Our mission is to work collaboratively with our community to provide a single location for prevention, intervention, healing and hope for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse in Washington County.
About This Cause
Oregon sees higher rates of violence and abuse than the national average. 40% of women and 36% of men experience domestic violence, compared to 33% and 24% nationally. 27% of Oregon women are raped compared with 18% nationally, and 56% of Oregon women experience sexual assault other than rape, compared with 45% nationally. And in Oregon, 69% of our children experience trauma in their homes. To address these alarming statistics, a collective of providers and survivors in Washington County decided that we needed to unite our agencies and tackle this together. The Family Justice Center of was founded in 2018 to do just that. For survivors, being able to come to a single location, rather than having to go door-to-door or phone number to phone number, significantly reduces barriers, reduces trauma, and increases the survivors ability to break the cycle of violence. Additionally, cycles of violence and abuse are incredibly complex, crossing many disciplines, agencies, and services; no one organization can provide everything a survivor needs, which demands a coordination of all the community’s services. To specifically address these barriers, we host a collaboration of 15 agencies in a single center dedicated to providing holistic, wrap around services for the safety, healing, and hope for anyone impacted by violence and abuse. The FJC is made up of Domestic Violence Resource Center, Sexual Assault Resource Center, Safety Compass, Community Action, DHS, Abuse Recovery Ministry Services, Beaverton, Hillsboro, and Washington County law enforcement and victim’s services, Washington County Circuit Court, Oregon Law Center, Victim Rights Law Center, Disability Rights Oregon, and Oregon Crime Victims Law Center. Over this year, we have seen the need grow in our community, both uncovered and exacerbated by the pandemic. During COVID-19 and the subsequent quarantines, it is estimated that cases of domestic violence have increased by 30%. Reports of child abuse fell and homicides in Washington County are at a twenty year high. Low barrier, coordinated services are needed now more than ever. In response, the FJC collaborative has expanded its scope, with partners now providing services for domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. We are very proud that when our community needed us most, the partners of the FJC were there, joining together for survivors, and continuing to work toward the vision of ending violence and abuse in Washington County. Since opening our doors we have served over 11,550 survivors. Through our work we have learned that in over 50% of domestic violence cases there is also co-occurring child abuse. To begin to address this, we have undertaken a strategic initiative to co-locate with CARES Northwest, and expand into becoming the Family Peace Center, focused on intervening and preventing all forms of family violence, abuse, and trauma, to ensure that our children, or families, and our community, can have safe futures. With your support we can engage more partners, provide more services, end more violence, and heal more trauma in our community.