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Helping Women and Children
Through Life Hurdles
Union Gospel
Mission Welcomes
New Women
and Children’s
Director
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Youtheary Sim accepts new
position as women’s and
children’s director
tion Center. She also served as the
Women’s Ministry Leader at the
Potter’s House Ministries.
“What an exciting time this is
to join the UGM family! I was
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Youtheary Sim joined the
Union Gospel Mission of Portland
in January of 2023 as the new Di-
rector for LifeChange for Women
and Their Children. LifeChange
is a long-term residential recov-
ery community for single women
and women with Children who
are escaping homelessness, addic-
tion and abuse. Women and chil-
dren in LifeChange receive a safe
home, counseling, education, and
life-skills training allowing them
to heal from trauma and live a
healthy, independent life.
Youtheary is a Graduate of
Clark Atlanta University. She has
worked with organizations such as
Harkins House, Teen Challenge,
Centro Cultural, Latino Network,
National Urban League, and Port-
land Opportunities Industrializa-
born and raised in the Northwest.
My commitment to my commu-
nity started with my immigrant
parents who experienced firsthand
the daily challenges and barriers
that our city faces. I am thrilled
to be back in my hometown and
to serve the women and their chil-
dren at LifeChange.”
In June, of 2022 UGM broke
ground on a brand-new home
for LifeChange for Women and
Their Children. This new build-
ing will double our capacity to
serve more than 2,000 women
and children in the next decade
as they work to end cycles of ad-
diction, poverty, and abuse. Not
only will the new center have 52
rooms to accommodate women
and children, but it will also be
equipped with incredible spaces
for healing and transformation. It
will include spaces for commu-
nity building, onsite counseling,
parenting classes, a children's
education center, a chapel, and
more! The goal is to open this
new building in spring of 2024.
To learn more about LifeChange
for Women and Their Children
visit www.ugmportland.org
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Leaving Behind a Legacy
Bill Bradbury,
former Oregon
Secretary of
State, dead at 73
(AP) — Former Oregon Secre-
tary of State Bill Bradbury, who
established the state’s first-in-the-
nation system of voting by mail,
died Friday. He was 73. Bradbury
also advocated for environmental
issues and ran for governor, all
while battling multiple sclerosis
for more than 40 years. He died
after unexpected medical com-
plications during a six-month,
around-the-world cruise with his
wife of 36 years, Katy Eymann.
“Bill Bradbury may be gone,
but he leaves behind a legacy in
Oregon that will endure for gen-
erations to come,” U.S. Sen. Jeff
Merkley said in a statement.
Bradbury served 15 years in the
Oregon Legislature, retiring from
the statehouse in 1995 to fight the
shrinking of salmon populations.
Known as “Mr. Fish,” he served as
director of For the Sake of Salmon
Bill Bradbury
until 1999, The Oregonian report-
ed. Gov. John Kitzhaber appointed
Bradbury that year to be Oregon’s
23rd secretary of state. Bradbury
served for a decade, focusing on
improving Oregon’s voting system
and establishing more transparent
campaign practices. Bradbury es-
tablished Oregon’s vote-by-mail
system, which has significantly
increased voter participation since
2000. He also helped establish Or-
egon’s online political campaign
contributions system, ORESTAR,
which gives the public access to
campaign finance information.
He ran for governor in 2010,
losing to Kitzhaber in the Demo-
cratic primary.
Those who knew Bradbury
said he was always optimistic
despite his condition, which can
cause extreme bouts of fatigue.
“In battling MS with his trade-
mark relentless optimism, Bill
showed all of us how to bring
good cheer and inner toughness
to life’s many challenges,” U.S.
Sen. Ron Wyden wrote on Twit-
ter. “He will be hugely missed.”