Wild Iris is a community based non-profit agency, committed to promoting, providing and sustaining programs of education and prevention, crisis intervention, advocacy and support for those affected by domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual assault.

Wild Iris began in 1981 with a telephone in the Bishop CA home of two founding mothers. The Women's Services, as Wild Iris was then known, received two calls that first year. In 1983, Wild Iris merged with Toiyabe Indian Health Project's Child Assault Prevention Program (CAPP), and initiated the first such program in the Bishop schools. The following year Wild Iris incorporated as a non-profit organization, opened an office, and began training volunteers for the 24-hour crisis hotline. The Battered Women's Shelter was established in 1987, and after a brief closing in 1988-89 due to the loss of state funding, the shelter reopened in January 1990 and has stayed open ever since. Wild Iris expanded services to Mono County in 1989. By 1998, Wild Iris was able to extend its services to the Coleville/Walker area in northern Mono County. That same year, Wild Iris established a Teen Assault Prevention Program (TAPP) that brought education programs into most of the schools in the Inyo/Mono area. For the 2003-2004 school year, Wild Iris presented all new curriculum, the Youth Violence Prevention Program (YVPP). This curriculum was developed in response to the community, educators, and administrators who requested updated materials, and integrated the evaluation data compiled during the agency's use of the CAPP/TAPP curriculum. In 2005, Wild Iris was able to open a Southern Inyo satellite office in Lone Pine.

Wild Iris receives about 2,000 calls per year on its crisis hotline. Wild Iris continues to focus its work on crisis intervention, supporting victims, and providing violence-prevention education to adults, teens, and children in Inyo and Mono Counties in California.

Wild Iris is a nonprofit agency supported by local, state, and federal funding, private foundations, individual contributions, and fundraising events.