Parrott Creek Child and Family Services

About Parrott Creek Child and Family Services

Parrott Creek Child and Family Services is a recovery housing provider and treatment organization in Oregon City, Oregon, the seat of Clackamas County, accredited by the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon and operating since 1968.

Recovery Homes for Women and Children

The organization runs two recovery home sites with a total of nine units in Clackamas County, and the program is built for women with children. That combination is rare. Most recovery housing requires a mother to place her children elsewhere in order to take a bed, which turns a housing decision into a custody decision and frequently ends with the woman declining treatment. Nine family units in a single county is a small number in absolute terms and a significant one in context, because for a mother in Clackamas County there is often no comparable alternative.

Placement is not open to the general public. Referrals come from Oregon Department of Human Services Child Welfare or Self Sufficiency with an active case, and clients identified as being in recovery need at least thirty days of documented clean time. The program is explicitly aimed at family reunification and self-sufficiency, with goals set collaboratively and transitional support running up to one year. Anyone hoping to enter should start with their DHS caseworker, since the caseworker holds the referral.

A Broader Set of Housing and Recovery Programs

Recovery homes are one part of what the organization does. It also runs an Independent Living Program, an Alcohol and Drug Housing Assistance Program, outpatient mental health and substance use treatment in English and Spanish, youth residential care, and community outreach and recovery support. That range means a family can move between levels without leaving the organization, and a young person aging out of one program has somewhere defined to go next. The organization holds CARF accreditation across its services.

A Clackamas County Recovery Housing Provider Since 1968

Parrott Creek has supported youth and families affected by the juvenile justice and child welfare systems since 1968, along with people facing addiction, mental health conditions or homelessness. An organization operating that long in one county has a working relationship with the courts, the schools and the child welfare offices that decide where families go, and that history is a large part of why the referral pipeline runs through DHS. Its administrative offices sit on Molalla Avenue in Oregon City.

Oregon City is the Clackamas County seat and the oldest incorporated city west of the Rockies, sitting at the Willamette Falls where Highway 99E meets Interstate 205. The county courthouse, the juvenile department, the county health division and Clackamas Community College are all inside the county's northern tier, and TriMet bus service links Oregon City to Milwaukie, Gladstone, Happy Valley and Portland. A family placed here stays within reach of the child welfare offices and court dates that structure a reunification case, which is the practical requirement the housing has to satisfy.

MHACBO Accreditation and What It Commits This Provider To

The organization is accredited by the Mental Health & Addiction Certification Board of Oregon, the state's affiliate of the National Alliance for Recovery Residences. Oregon does not license recovery residences and the accreditation is voluntary, so holding it reflects a decision. It commits the provider to a published code of ethics, written disclosure of fees and rules before move-in, a documented relapse and discharge policy, and a complaint process that reaches outside the house. For a mother whose housing and custody case are entangled, an external complaint route is not a formality.