We are honored to share that Adelante Mujeres has been selected as one of the Portland Business Journal’s 2026 Nonprofit Partners. This year-long partnership is a powerful recognition of the work we do to advance dignity, opportunity, and justice for immigrant and Latina women and their families in Washington County. 

We refreshed the Adelante Mujeres brand! We have grown and evolved over the years, and this refresh signals growth and adaptation to better represent our services, goals, and strategic changes. This brand color refresh keeps our identity fresh and relevant without losing brand recognition. 

Our fabulous Child Nutrition Team, Lidia, Esthela, Hilda, and Francia, is now part of our Education Programs, working in collaboration with Early Childhood Education. Bravo!!!!! 

We listened to the needs of the community and are growing our legal services at Adelante Mujeres. We recently added a notary to our Leadership & Advocacy team to assist with family plans and other immigration documents and forms. 

Across our community, immigration enforcement activities are creating fear, uncertainty, and real disruptions to daily life. At Adelante Mujeres, we believe no family should face this alone. During this time of violence and turmoil, we continue to show up with compassion by offering trusted support, clear information, and a steady presence when it matters most. 

2025 has been difficult, with many heavy moments, but at Adelante Mujeres we hold on to what is most powerful: our unity and our courage. The energy of hope and the deep belief in our collective strength is what sustains us. We celebrate the moments of joy and powerful impact we’ve made this year as we empowered Latinas, children, and immigrant communities in Oregon.

We were honored to receive Portland Business Journal’s inaugural Impact Award, recognizing nonprofits that have significantly strengthened our region’s economy and workforce over the past two years. This recognition is a celebration of our community’s courage, leadership, and unwavering commitment to creating a more just, equitable future for all.

On November 8, 2025, Adelante Mujeres gathered to celebrate the graduation of Group 2 from the Environmental Justice and Leadership Program. Community leaders, partners, families, and friends came together to honor eight weeks of dedication, learning, and deep commitment to caring for the Earth.

Every fall, Main Street in downtown Forest Grove transforms into a tapestry of color, memory, and celebration. On Wednesday, October 29, Adelante Mujeres invited our community to gather once again for our annual Día de los Muertos Celebration, which is a beloved tradition that marks the final Forest Grove Farmers Market of the year. 

On October 16, 2025, Adelante Mujeres came together with partners, families, and community members to celebrate the successful completion of the Academia de Conocimientos Básicos de Inmigración 2025, a heartfelt evening filled with music, gratitude, and community pride. The celebration recognized the achievements of both women and men who, through months of dedication, learning, and service, have grown as leaders and advocates for immigrant rights.

On a crisp October evening, our friends at Tualatin Riverkeepers (TRK) hosted their annual Green Heron Fundraiser. Between laughter, conversation, and even feeding the alpacas who once called Oakwood Gardens home, guests celebrated the importance of passing the love, care, and protection of our watershed to future generations. That message resonated deeply with our team. It’s exactly what our Chicas program strives to do every day: empower Latina youth to lead, to explore, and to become stewards of their communities and environment. 

When you enter Juniper Garden in the fall, you are suddenly surrounded by rows of ripe vegetables and the hum of community. This October, we gathered to celebrate something exciting: the official inauguration of our new yurt in the community garden collaboration between Adelante Mujeres and Bienestar. 

This yurt is a symbol of what happens when community, perseverance, and purpose come together to create something lasting. It is a space for education and connections for years to come. 

Guadalupe Maldonado, affectionately known as Doña Lupita, is a trained teacher and one of the earliest collaborators of Adelante Mujeres. “What inspired me more than anything was wanting a future for my children, thinking that they had to go to college and, as a Latina mother, we always think about supporting our children with school expenses,” Lupita explains. 

Thank you to Health Share, CareOregon, Washington County Behavioral Health, and Trillium for their continued partnership and support of Clínica Esperanza.

We are proud to continue providing mental health services to our community with a team of four full-time therapists and a care coordination team that helps participants navigate services and connect to needed resources through case management and care coordination.

Daniela and Selena discovered that the best entrepreneurships can be born from the simplest conversations. Between jokes and laughter, these two young women transformed a casual chat into an elevated snack cart business. 

Raquel Garcés, an ambitious pastry chef, carried sweetness in her hands from her hometown of Puerto Ordaz, in Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, to the valleys of Oregon, and she keeps dreaming of new ways to impress people with her confections. 

Oregonian entrepreneur Imelda Cirilo built a business that honors family recipes from the mountains of Guerrero. "I am passionate about food of all kinds," Imelda shares. 

Adelante Mujeres has supported immigrant Oregonians through a variety of programming since 2002. Our immigration attorney, Nanci Vasquez Rios, and our team of accredited representatives provide vital immigration legal services to our community at a time when it is needed most. We are committed to helping Latine and immigrant families thrive. 

This August, the Cornelius Public Library’s Drake Learning Center celebrates its one-year anniversary, marking 12 months of sparking youth creativity, innovation, and community connection. This room in the library was the culmination of years of partnership between Cornelius Public Library, Adelante Mujeres, and Centro Cultural, three community-based organizations united by a shared vision: ensuring that every young person has access to the tools, resources, and encouragement they need to dream big and make those dreams real. 

Back-to-school season is a time of excitement, possibility, and new beginnings. But for many families in our community, it can also be a time of stress, as the costs of clothes, shoes, and supplies quickly add up. That’s why we are so proud of a special partnership that brought joy and relief to seven Adelante Mujeres families this summer.