Strengthening families through in-home mental health care

In late 2025, Youth Villages began offering its intensive, in-home behavioral health treatment program to Columbia Pacific members in Tillamook County. The launch was the culmination of an effort by Columbia Pacific and local partners to fill a long-standing gap in care.

When kids are at high risk of being separated from their families because of mental health challenges, the program can change a family’s trajectory through mental-health skills training, peer support and more. It also helps families safely reunify after higher levels of care, such as foster-care placements.

“The program doesn’t just focus on the child but also supports the circles around the child that impact their success,” said Qurynn Hale, Columbia Pacific Behavioral Health Program Manager.

Columbia Pacific housing fund makes a lasting impact

Following more than five years of sustained commitment to affordable housing, Columbia Pacific completed its Regional Housing Impact Fund in 2025.

Together with some of our largest clinical partners, the fund awarded more than $7 million in grants to meet critical needs. The investments will ultimately add 485 new housing units and 45 shelter beds across the region, which has some of the highest per-capita rates of houselessness statewide. When Willet Apartments  (one of our first investments) broke ground in July 2022, the city of Tillamook hadn’t seen an affordable housing development in nearly three decades.

Learn more about our housing investments.

Reinvesting profits to support early literacy and more

Under the state’s SHARE Initiative, Columbia Pacific invests part of its profits back into the communities it serves. Our SHARE investments have traditionally focused on housing. In 2025, however, we awarded SHARE grants that address a broader mix of priorities, including early literacy and substance use disorder.

For instance, we’re using SHARE dollars to continue our longtime support for the local program partner of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. The program inspires a love of reading by gifting free, high-quality books to children (birth to age 5). Since 2018, it has distributed more than 200,000 books to children in our region.

Language access investments reduce barriers to care

About 3,000 Columbia Pacific members speak Spanish as their primary spoken language, and access to in-person health care interpretation has long been a challenge across our rural region. In early 2025, our Board approved an investment to address this need. Clinical and community partners serving large numbers of Spanish-speaking members were then invited to apply for funding to enhance their capacity to offer onsite, in-person interpretation.

These investments are already yielding results. At Columbia Memorial Hospital, experience scores for Hispanic and Latino patients have improved significantly thanks to the addition of a full-time, onsite Spanish interpreter, among other initiatives.

Learn more about language services for members.