Our county has been fortunate to have an office dedicated to the advocacy for women and girls, the Office of Women's Policy (OWP). Sadly, there is a current proposal to merge this office with two other departments as well as cut the entire operating budge for OWP.

OWP has been instrumental in raising and addressing issues that most affect women and children in our county, including economic conditions for women, predatory lending practices and housing issues. Additionally, in 2008, OWP worked with the Commission on the Status of Women and the Department of Corrections in creating the ground-breaking report "Breaking Cycles, Rebuilding Lives."

Supervisors Shirakawa and Gage are requesting that OWP be kept as a stand alone entity and that funding be restored to OWP. Click here to read their memo.

You can help save the OWP by calling or emailing your County Supervisor and indicating your support for the proposal by Supervisors Shirakawa and Gage.

District 1: Supervisor Don Gage

Phone: (408) 299-5010

E-mail: don.gage@bos.co.santa-clara.ca.us

District 2: Supervisor George Shirakawa

Phone: (408) 299-5020

E-mail: george.shirakawa@bos.sccgov.org

District 3: Supervisor Dave Cortese

Phone: (408) 299-5030

E-mail: dave.cortese@bos.sccgov.org

District 4: Supervisor Ken Yeager

Phone: (408) 299-5040

E-mail: ken.yeager@bos.sccgov.org

District 5: Supervisor Liz Kniss

Phone: (408) 299-5050

E-mail: liz.kniss@bos.co.santa-clara.ca.us