Facts

Why We Need the Freedom House:
    More than 50 women from our community live at NORCOR.
    Most have children now in foster care or living with family.
    I've talked to ladies who had their first baby by the time they were 14 or 15.
    Education and emotional maturity stops when they start drugs——often at age      10 to 12.

The cycle for them has begun:
    Substance abuse
    Crime
    Imprisonment
    Getting out of jail, living in an unhealthy environment——usually with a boyfriend      who is also on drugs
    Having another baby
    Despair, hopelessness
    Substance abuse

The cycle repeats. The question becomes:
What will happen to these ladies in 10 years if this cycle isn't stopped?
This brings up a question of even greater concern——What will happen to their children if the mother's addictions and unhealthy relationships are not dealt with? Will they also end up at NORCOR?

*Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facilities, otherwise known as "NORCOR," is a Regional Adult Jail and Juvenile Detention Correction Facility complex serves four counties.