Sylvania Women's Resource Center

Sylvania CC 273 | 503-977-8101

Sylvania WRC staff

The PCC Sylvania Women's Resource Center (WRC) provides a central location for services that support the academic achievement of women, while working to increase access to education for women, improve the retention of women students at the college, and encourage women's leadership development.

Services

  • Personalized assistance entering college
  • College advising and info on PCC’s educational programs
  • Child care resource and subsidy information
  • Scholarship information
  • Community resource referrals
  • Crisis intervention and problem solving
  • A place to connect with other students
  • Advocacy, support, and friendship in a caring environment
  • A privacy room for nursing mothers

Programs and Workshops

  • Domestic Violence Awareness Month
  • Engineering Women Student Networking
  • Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans Awareness
  • Self Defense Training
  • Sexual Assault Awareness Month
  • Sylvania Transitions Program
  • Teen Parent College Day
  • The Illumination Project
  • The Vagina Monologues
  • Women’s Leadership Program
  • Women Student Art Exhibit

Women's Leadership Program

The Sylvania Women's Resource Center is built on a feminist philosophy of shared leadership and decision-making which promotes the empowerment and skill development of all women. The WRC sponsors a Women's Leadership Training program for the Student Advocates who work in the Center. Student Advocates develop skills in advocacy, problem solving, crisis intervention, resource research, public speaking, community organizing, coalition building, program design and implementation. If you are interested in a position in the WRC come by and find out more. .

Applications for 2009/2010 Academic Year

The Portland Community College Sylvania Women’s Resource Center is seeking students to participate in the Women’s Resource Center Women’s Leadership Training Program during the 2009/2010 academic year. Applications are available online or at the WRC office. Applicatons are due by Friday, May 8, 2008.

Illumination Project

The Illumination Project (IP) is Portland Community College’s innovative student leadership and education program designed to foster a climate of equality, compassion, justice, and respect for all people in the PCC academic community and the community-at-large. The Illumination Project uses interactive social justice theater as a venue for Student Educators and audience members to join together to rehearse ways of solving problems.  Interactive theater, with its capacity to engage diverse learning styles and members of a community, is an ideal way to challenge racism, sexism, heterosexism, and other forms of oppression.

The Illumination Project is a program of the Sylvania Women’s Resource Center and finds additional support from the Sylvania Campus President’s Office, Multicultural Center, Sociology and Theater Departments. IP persists through financial assistance from grants from the Ford Foundation, Spirit Mountain Community Foundation, Equity Foundation, and Hoover Family Foundation as well as the proceeds from PCC’s annual production of The Vagina Monologues.