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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. The YWCA volunteers bring brochures on everything from hepatitis to job training, alcoholism to pregnancy. Sometimes they bring clothes, including underwear, socks and nightgowns. They also visit the Clark County WORK Center, where they teach the inmates how to make quilts.

More important than any of these things, though, is the fact that the WORTH women bring a diversion from an overcrowded jail and a release from stress and boredom. 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 360-696-0167 and ask to speak to a WORTH representative.

What you can do to help

Make donations of clean women's underwear, bras, socks, flannel nightgowns. The program would also like sewing machines for making quilts as well as fabric and thread.

How to volunteer

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