Oregon

The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) supports immigrants, refugees and mainstream community members to become self-sufficient. We strive in our programming, outreach and education to foster understanding, compassion and communication between Oregon's established communities and newest arrivals.

Oregon has one of the fastest growing refugee and immigrant populations in the country. Forced to leave their home countries for fear of persecution due to race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group, refugees and immigrants come to Portland to begin new lives. IRCO focuses on removing barriers to self-sufficiency and helping individuals and families thrive, by providing more than 200 culturally and linguistically specific social services, from employment, vocational training and English language learning, to community development, early childhood and parenting education, youth academic support and gang prevention.

Basic Rights Oregon works fearlessly and tirelessly to build a strong, vibrant, powerful, and progressive movement for LGBTQ equality. LGBTQ Oregonians exist in every community, and we understand that we have to engage in strategic, values-based coalitions to address the many needs of our communities. As such, building alliances with progressive groups that advocate for working families, racial justice, immigrant rights, reproductive justice, and campaign reform will be essential to winning policies that meet the varied needs of our diverse community.

The Victim Rights Law Center is the first law center in the nation dedicated solely to advocating for the civil legal needs of sexual assault survivors.  The VRLC provides direct legal representation to victims of rape and sexual assault in Oregon. Survivors are self-identified meaning criminal charges are not required to be a VRLC client. There is no age, income, citizenship, or immigration status restriction and clients may include family members in immigration cases. Legal services must be related to the sexual assault.

VRLC attorneys provide consultation and legal representation in the areas of victim advocacy*, safety and privacy*, benefits and financial stability*, housing*, employment*, education, immigration, and identity document changes.  

*Tri county area only (Multnomah, Clackamas & Washington; survivor must live, work, go to school, or have been assaulted in relevant geographic location).

The mission of the SATF is to develop and support an effective, consistent and collaborative approach to the response to and reduction of adult and adolescent sexual assault in Oregon. They provide Technical Assistance through the National Sexual Assault Training and Capacity Building Project.

A project of the National Crime Victim Law Institute, the Center for Law and Public Policy on Sexual Violence (CLPPS) analyzes and litigates sexual violence issues from a national perspective. CLPPS focuses solely on sexual violence issues; the goal of the project is to transform how the civil and criminal justice systems respond to survivors of sexual violence.

The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) is dedicated to the well being of Indian children and families. NICWA provides information and training on tribal child welfare and related issues; community development services through on-site consultation and technical assistance; public policy advocacy, research policy analysis and dissemination protecting the rights of children and families.

The National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI), established in 2000, is a non-profit research and educational organization at Lewis & Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon. NCVLI is the only national organization in the country working to assert victims’ rights in criminal trial and appellate courts. NCVLI also maintains a resource bank of crime victim law, assists attorneys who provide direct legal services to crime victims, establishes legal clinics and files amicus briefs advocating for crime victims’ rights.