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United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley has evolved from its roots as a fundraising organization to a critical community convener that mobilizes local partners, including businesses, community leaders, public officials, and community members to provide opportunities for people to succeed.  We believe we can do the most good, achieving long term change, by investing in key building blocks of a good life:  Education, Financial Stability, Health, and Basic Needs.  Remove any of the building blocks and the others topple.  Build them all up, and you have a cornerstone for individual and community prosperity.

Of course, United Way can't do it alone.  We must work with our community partners.  Together, we must tap into peoples aspirations, focus on issues and underlying conditions for change, and bring people and organizations together to create community impact.

Our Focus Areas
Education û Education is essential to getting, and keeping a job with a wage that can sustain a family.
Financial Stability û Families must be able to cover their costs today, and save for the future.
Health û Good health helps kids stay on track in school, and ensures that adults can be productive at work.
Basic Needs û As a community, we must provide support for fragile individuals and families at risk of homelessness.

The Communities We Serve
United Way of the Mid-Willamette Valley serves Marion, Polk, & Yamhill Counties. Our work is grounded in the diverse needs of each community we serve.

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Location Directions
Download printable pdf of map and directions: mapUWMWV.pdf

Hours of Operation
Office hours:  8:00am - 5:00pm Monday - Thursday and 8:00am - 4:30pm Friday

 

What is CASA? 

CASA |'k?s? | n. 1. A Court Appointed Special Advocate is an unbiased and fierce protector of an abused or neglected child going through the trauma of the court system. 

For an abused or neglected child, a CASA volunteer is someone who listens to the child, fights for the child, and whose sole mission is to help clear a path for the child out of the complex, overburdened child welfare system and into a safe, permanent home.?CASA volunteers are in a unique position to be the only professional in the courtroom not paid to be there and are only beholden to the children's best interests. We know that the CASA model works. Research has shown that a child with a CASA volunteer is half as likely to enter long-term foster care compared to a child without a CASA. And once that child leaves the system, he or she is much more likely to stay out of foster care. Permanently.