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Worth -
women offenders' rehabilitation through TRAINING AND help

About WORTH

Every week six to eight female volunteers visit the women inmates in Clark County.

Worth has been operating for over 25 years, providing support and supplies for the women inmates. Each week, they bring a stack of stationery and greeting cards for the women to write letters to loved ones, their families or even an attorney. The YWCA volunteers bring brochures on everything from hepatitis to job training, alcoholism to pregnancy. Sometimes they bring clothes, including underwear, socks and nightgowns.

More important than any of these things, though, is the fact that the WORTH women bring a diversion from an over crowded jail, boredom and a release from stress. These women treat the inmates with respect. The inmates can talk with the WORTH volunteers in a non-judgmental atmosphere. For more information about the WORTH program, please call the Community Office at 696-0167 and ask to speak to a WORTH representative.

What you can do to help

Make donations of stationery, greeting cards (blank or birthday, stamps, clean women's underwear, bras, socks, flannel nightgowns, nail polish and remover. The program would also like sewing machines for making nightgowns, nightgown project materials and accessories (stretch cotton, stretch flannel).

How to volunteer

Contact Al Flory at 360-696-0167. Background checks are required, as is a nonjudgmental attitude.

YWCA Clark County, 3609 Main Street, Vancouver, WA 98663
Telephone: 360-696-0167 Toll Free: 800-695-0167

For more information, e-mail info@ywcaclarkcounty.org.
To volunteer, e-mail: aflory@ywcaclarkcounty.org
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