Warner Creek Correctional Facility Honors Dedicated Volunteers

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Warner Creek Correctional Facility (WCCF) welcomed volunteers and their guests for the Annual Volunteer Appreciation Dinner put on by the Volunteer Coordinator Chaplain Stan Friend. Superintendent, Steve Brown personally thanked the volunteers for the services they provide to WCCF’s adults in custody.

WCCF takes pride in promoting the Volunteer Program’s Mission:

To foster a respected and recognized volunteer community of appropriate size and quality that is capable of serving the rehabilitative, religious/spiritual, educational, and other pro-social activity needs of individuals who are incarcerated or undergoing reentry from incarceration back to the community, and provide support to the staff and the mission of the department.

The Statewide Volunteer Program fosters more than 2,000 volunteers working in the Oregon Department of Corrections (DOC) while representing 14 locations. The areas where volunteers support the work of the DOC include:

  • A&D 12-Step Programs
  • Administration
  • Behavioral Health Services
  • Community Corrections
  • Counseling & Treatment Services
  • Education
  • Home for Good in Oregon
  • Health Services
  • Interns
  • Life Skills
  • Mental Health Services
  • Parole Board
  • Reentry
  • Religious Services
  • Research Unit
  • Victim Program

Volunteers have ideas and skills that complement DOC’s Mission, Vision, and Values to prepare adults in custody for their reintegration to Oregon Communities.

WCCF is a minimum-security prison in Lakeview that houses up to 496 male inmates who are within four year of release. WCCF provides a range of correctional programs and services including education, transitional programs, religious services, and work opportunity crews. WCCF has a contact center on site through Oregon Corrections Enterprises. WCCF opened in September 2005 and is one of Oregon’s 14 operating prisons. It received the State Energy Efficiency Design (SEED) award in May 2008 for its progress in design efficiency. The most energy-efficient element at WCCF is the use of geothermal energy, providing 100 percent of the hot water to the facility.                                                                         

Press release provided from Oregon Department of Corrections.