Community Justice

Mission Statement
Yamhill County Department of Community Justice’s mission is to serve the community with compassion while promoting accountability, safety, and wellness to inspire positive lasting change.
 

Our values are:

• Safety:  Being protected from or unlikely to cause danger, risk or injury, denoting something designed to prevent injury or damage.
• Integrity:  The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. 
• Justice:  Just behavior or treatment; fair and reasonableness.
• Compassion:  Sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.
• Community:  A feeling of fellowship with others as a result of common attitudes, interests and goals.
• Accountability:  The fact or condition of being accountable and taking responsibility for one’s actions.
• Ethics:  Moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activities.
• Respect:  Regard for another persons’ feelings, wishes, rights or traditions.