Building Community, Creating Opportunity

The Greater Woodburn Opportunity Center is a community-led capital project that aims to bring housing, childcare, youth programs, senior services, mental health, workforce supports, and more together, in one place.

Get Involved

Endorse the Campaign

Add your name to show you support building the Woodburn Opportunity Center

Be part of outreach, listening sessions, and story gathering.

Volunteer to Lead

Advocate With Us

Add your voice to community decisions and public meetings.

Welcome to your future center:

The Greater Woodburn Opportunity Center didn’t start with a blueprint; it started with a question: what if there was one place in Woodburn where families, youth and elders could gather, learn and thrive together? Farmworkers, church members and neighbors asked for a home that offered services and dignity under one roof. Through years of grassroots organizing, that idea is becoming reality. This isn’t the City’s aquatic center project; this is a completely separate project that's from the community for the community.

Children are drawing on a white wall with a paintbrush.

Seniors participating in a group wellness activity outdoors.

Our Vision

Our vision is a thriving Woodburn where every person can belong, access services, build skills, and shape community decisions, all in one welcoming place led by the people it serves. We’re building a multi‑use site that brings childcare, youth and family programs, senior supports, health and wellness, and workforce training and more together.

Join Us

Our Mission

Build, fund, and run a community-led opportunity center in Woodburn that brings childcare, youth and family supports, senior services, health and wellness, workforce and small business programs together, while organizing residents to help shape public decisions.

Our Services

On eight acres in Woodburn, architects are designing a campus with multiple facilities and outdoor spaces that welcome everyone. Picture an early learning center beside a senior center, a community café, a youth innovation lab, gardens and play areas, and a community hall for gatherings. Affordable housing, planned in partnership with FHDC, will provide families with stability while staying connected to nearby services. Solar panels and accessible design features make the campus sustainable and easy to navigate. Site plans and renderings will be available on this page so you can see where children will learn, elders will connect, and families will thrive.

Childcare and Early Learning:

Safe, nurturing spaces where children grow and learn while parents work or study.

Adult and child drawing together on white paper.

Senior Services:

Day programs, wellness classes, exercise and social activities, plus access to health resources for our elders.

A group of seniors enjoying a lively community activity in a welcoming center space.

Learn More

A group of women standing next to each other

Why this Matters

Woodburn is Oregon’s largest Latino‑majority city, it's multicultural, with multigenerational immigrants from many parts of the world, yet for too long we have been ignored with limited services and resources. This project answers that gap by creating a home for services and a base for civic engagement. By pairing construction with organizing, we ensure the campus is heart-centered with the community’s vision.