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Children of LifeChange

LifeChange for Women and Their Children located in Beaverton, Oregon is a safe, healing home where women and their children can heal from violence and trauma together. The children who enter LifeChange have experienced various forms of trauma and instability. Alongside their mothers, children have the opportunity to participate in recovery. LifeChange provides a loving, structured environment where children are able to heal and learn through counseling, after school activities and pre-school care. As the children begin to feel safe, loved, and cared for, they begin to thrive. They smile and laugh more, outbursts of negative behavior are fewer and fewer, and they begin to succeed in school. When mothers and children are able to be in recovery together generational cycles of addiction and violence are broken, giving these children hope for better futures!