2007-2008 United Way Community Impact Partners
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Regional 2-1-1 Collaboration
Assures that comprehensive information and referral is available to the four-county Portland metropolitan area 24/7/365 by coordinating and utilizing the strengths of partners in all four counties.
Partner Agencies: Clackamas County Social Services, Community Action
Target Population: Residents in the 4-county region and social service providers seeking information about available services.
A Child's Place
Bilingual School Readiness & Early Childhood Mental Health Education
Improves school readiness by adding an on-site mental health consultant to provide child screening, consultation with teachers and parents, referrals to support child and family functioning, and coaching to strengthen parent skill development.
Partner Agency: Morrison Child and Family Services
Target Population: Low-income and single parent families from largely the Latino/Hispanic community.
Albertina Kerr Centers
Skills Training Program
Expands and enhances a life skills curriculum to address the specific needs of youth with developmental disabilities to develop life skills and supports necessary to live independently in the community when they turn 18 and age out of children's residential services.
Arc of Multnomah-Clackamas
Adults with Developmental Disabilities Service Delivery Model
Increases access to community services for 760 adults with developmental disabilities currently on a “Wait List” and receiving no services.
Target Population: Adults with developmental disabilities not currently receiving any state or county funded services.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metropolitan Portland
African American Mentoring Initiative
An African American Advisory Council expands connections within the African American community to increase the number of African American youths and adult volunteers who participate in mentoring, following a successful model used with Hispanic youth and mentors.
Bradley-Angle House
Healing Roots Center
Community-based self-empowerment center providing culturally appropriate domestic violence and mental health services for African/African American women and children, with prevention/education in the community.
Partner Agencies: Nappy Roots Press, Lifeworks NW
Target Population: African-American women and their children experiencing family violence, North and Northeast Portland.
Cascade AIDS Project
LUES – Latinos Unidos Enfrentando el SIDA (Latinos United Confronting AIDS)
Reduces the incidence of HIV and STI transmission among Latinos in Oregon through education, training and social marketing.
Partner Agencies: Oregon Council for Latino Advancement (OCHA), the Susannah Maria Gurule Foundation (SMG), Multnomah County Health Department's Community Capacitation Center (CCC)
Target Population: Youth and adults from the Latino community.
Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, Inc.
HOT: Housing for Chronically Homeless
Increases the capacity of Housing Outreach Team (HOT) in order to implement a housing first project for 100 chronically homeless individuals with severe mental illness that access Royal Palm drop in center and transitional housing.
Target Population: Adults with a history of chronic homelessness, severe mental illness coupled with substance abuse, no income, no health insurance.
Central City Concern
CARE (Clinically Aligned Reimbursement for Effectiveness Project)
The project will create a comprehensive, holistic and replicable model of healthcare delivery to best serve homeless and low income adults and families.
Centro Cultural of Washington County
4H Tech Wizards/ Adelante con Tecnologia
Builds on existing 4H computer training program to engage students in developing and applying critical thinking skills through technology based projects, while building parental support by teaching parents basic computer literacy.
Partner Agency: Washington County 4-H Leaders Association
Target Population: Low-income Latino youth in grades 7-12 at risk of dropping out of school from three school districts Hillsboro, Forest Grove, and Beaverton school districts, and their parents.
Children’s Home Society of Washington
Triple Point Out Reach
Increases ability of families to support LGBT youth through their middle and high school years through intergenerational activities that hone skills in listening, conflict resolution, communication and confidence to repair damaged family relationships and increase involvement for both youth and adults.
Children’s Home Society of Washington
The Family Wellness Project
Promotes health and well-being for families with children age 0-5, including parent education classes, support groups, health care, attachment therapy and home visits.
Partner Agencies: Housing Authority of Vancouver, NASCA, Grassroots Northwest, Fort Vancouver Regional Library
Target Population: Adult and teen parents and caregivers of children aged 0-5, largely underserved Slavic families with language barriers to accessing services.
Children’s Justice Alliance
Healthy Families Inside Out
Provides quality child care, respite care, and violence prevention classes with ongoing supports to families involved in the criminal justice system.
Partner Agencies: Center for Healthy and Inclusive Parenting, Peninsula Children’s Center, Parents Anonymous of Oregon
Target Population: Families with criminal justice involvement, with at least one child under age 6. Approximately 4% teen parents, 9% Hispanic, 29% African-American and 4% Native American.
Clackamas County Office for Children and Families
Children of Incarcerated Parents
Parenting curricula to ex-offenders with a school-based system of wraparound services for their children to reduce risk factors for later deliquency and intergenerational crime through improved parental attachment and family support.
Clackamas Women’s Services
Rural Mental Health Outreach Project
A Mental Health Specialist, as part of a Rural Outreach Team, integrates mental health and addictions treatment into family violence prevention services to rural Clackamas County residents, who are particularly vulnerable to the effects of domestic violence because of geographic isolation and poverty.
Community Alliance of Tenants
Safe Housing Project
Educates tenants to know their rights and take effective action to address unsafe, sub-standard housing conditions that contribute to health problems, housing instability and homelessness for low-income renters.
Target Population: Very low income underserved and uninsured children, families and elderly, primarily ethnic minorities, non-English speaking, chronically mentally ill, and homeless youth and adults.
Community Housing Resource Center (DBA The Homeownership Center)
Fourth Plain Revitalization Task Force
The Fourth Plain Revitalization Task Force will engage the community to implement the neighborhood revitalization plan developed with the City of Vancouver and Oversight Committee.
Community Partners for Affordable Housing
REAL (Recreation, Education & Active Leadership)
Partnership between a community development corporation and public school that ensures that students in housing crises get to school, stay in school, and get necessary tutoring to increase school success..
Partner Agencies: Good Neighbor Center, Fowler Middle School
Target Population: Students at Fowler Middle School living in CPAH and Good Neighbor transitional housing.
Community Partners for Affordable Housing
SELF (Stable Environment to Launch the Future)
Improves access to staff and support for CPAH families moving from Neighborhood House’s Turning Point transitional housing who are at risk, but not currently receiving case management.
Partner Agencies: Neighborhood House, Inc., Community Action
Target Population: Low-income, formerly homeless families in Southeastern Washington County and Southwest Portland, 12% African American, 21% Hispanic.
East County One Stop, Inc.
Differently-Abled Business Association (DBA)
Creates a trade organization and provides classes, counseling, community events, and resources for entrepreneurs with disabilities who are starting or expanding their business.
Partner Agencies: Oregon Business Leader’s Network, Easter Seals Oregon
Target Population: Self-employed entrepreneurs with disabilities, and working age adults with disabilities seeking employment or business opportunities.
Educational Opportunities for Children and Families
Clark County Multidisciplinary Team
A multidisciplinary team of early mental health, health, and early learning specialists work cooperatively to support and educate child care providers and parents so that the individual needs of children are addressed to keep them in their current child care setting.
Partner Agencies: Educational Service District 112, Clark County Health Department, SELF Council Diversity Task Force, Clark College, Washington State University - Vancouver, Fort Vancouver Regional Library
Target Population: Licensed child care providers in Clark County serving high-needs children and their parents.
Educational Service District 112
Clark County Child Care Provider Networks
Modeled after the Child Care Improvement Project, creates 3 child care provider networks for licensed home child care providers, including mentoring, training, technical assistance, consultation, and hands-on support and guidance to integrate quality practices and the Washington State Early Learning and Development Benchmarks into their programs.
Partner Agencies: Washington State Division of Child Care & Early Learning, Washington State University Vancouver, Grassroots Northwest, Children’s Home Society of Washington, Clark County Family Child Care Assoc., Clark College, Ft. Vancouver Regional Library
Target Population: Child care providers within Clark County in two low-income areas, Orchards and East County, expands services to the pilot Russian-immigrant network.
Educational Service District 112
Born Learning
A series of public information messages, resource materials, family fairs, and outreach ti new parents to increase knowledge of nurturing and early learning in every day moments for caregivers, child care providers and families of infants, toddlers, and preschool age children.
Partner Agencies: Educational Opportunities for Children and Families,
Family Action Coalition Team (FACT)
Multnomah Parent Action Committee (MPAC)
Grassroots, parent-led education, networking and support activities with multiple organizational partners that improve outcomes for children with disabilities age birth-6 and their families.
Partner Agencies: Multnomah Early Childhood Program, Oregon Technical Assistance Corporation, Northwest Down Syndrome Association, Inclusive Child Care Program, Arc of Multnomah-Clackamas
Target Population: Families of children birth to five with disabilities, developmental delays and/or chronic health conditions.
Friendly House, Inc.
Collaboration for Enhanced Support for Senior Living (CESSL)
A coalition of agencies in West and North Multnomah County will provide in-home services to frail elders and increase awareness about the cost efficiency of keeping elders in their own homes.
Partner Agencies: YWCA of Greater Portland, Northwest Pilot Project, Neighborhood House, Inc.
Target Population: Frail elders age 60 and over living in their own homes in North and West Multnomah County, nearly all with physical or cognitive or mental disabilities.
Girls Inc. of NW Oregon
Go Onward
Inspires under-represented girls to be strong, smart, and bold and prepared for confident and economically independent adulthood through an assertive continuing care model.
Partner Agencies: Las Hermanas (SMG Foundation), Bradley-Angle House, Lifeworks NW, Oregon Outreach, Washington County Juvenile Justice, Clackamas County Juvenile Justice, Multnomah County Juvenile Justice, OHSU
Target Population: Underserved girls, 50% ethnic minorities, experiencing intergenerational poverty, juvenile crime, family violence, substance abuse, and school failure.
Hacienda CDC
Expresiones-Centro de Jovenes
Provides on-site after-school programming for middle school youth, includes focus on math and English skill development and tutoring. Promotoras teach parents health and parent advocacy skills.
Partner Agencies: OHSU School of Nursing, Portland Parks and Recreation, Montavilla Community Center, OHSU Center for Health Disparities Research, SMG Foundation (Susannah Maria Gurule), El Hispanic News, Cita Con Nelly TV Program, Univision, Gregory Heights
Target Population: Low-income and diverse youth and their families (predominantly Latino and Somali) living in 3 low income housing centers in the Cully/Killingsworth section of northeast Portland.
Hands on Portland
Volunteer Innovation Project
Assists 250 nonprofit organizations in the 4-county area to transform their volunteer programs by engaging volunteers in meaningful service opportunities.
Partner Agencies: Volunteer Center of Clark County, Volunteer Connection
Hearing & Speech Institute
Building Cycles of Hope
Parent and child care provider education and support, parent-child group therapy, behavioral pediatrics, mental health and wrap-around services for underserved families using Circle of Security curriculum.
Partner Agencies: Morrison Child and Family Services, Peninsula Children’s Center, Circle of Security – Spokane, Neighborhood House, Inc., Community Partners for Affordable Housing
Target Population: Families with children birth to five from a variety of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Housing Development Corporation of Northwest Oregon
Promotores Program – “Community Connectors”
Provides families in HDC Resident Housing with information critical to their financial stability and success.
Partner Agencies: Washington County Health and Human Services, Oregon Employment Division, Tuality Healthcare Salud Program, Multnomah County Health Department, Forest Grove School District
Target Population: 100% low income Latinos.
IRCO
Successful School Transition (SST)
Academic support, parent engagement, after-school and summer school activities to 8th graders transitioning to high school and their parents.
Partner Agency: Binnsmead Middle School
Target Population: Primarily African American, and African, Asian, Hispanic and Slavic immigrants/refugees.
Janus Youth Programs, Inc.
Village Gardens
A collaboration of local public and private businesses and 268 low-income individuals to increase employability, financial stability and food security through sustainable urban agriculture.
Partner Agencies: Sauvie Island Organics, Sauvie Island Center, Housing Authority of Portland, Metro Parks and Open Spaces, Cascade Management, Inc., New Seasons, Portland Nursery, Big City Produce, Portland Farmers Market, Growing Gardens
Target Population: Low-income individuals living in Housing Authority of Portland housing, primarily African American, Latino, Native American, Asian and African immigrants.
JOIN
HomeFirst
Houses homeless people physically sleeping on the streets of Multnomah County and provides new capacity to support income acquisition to achieve housing stability.
Partner Agency: Benefits Advocacy Coalition
Target Population: Zero-income chronically homeless men, women, and children sleeping on the streets of Multnomah County. 24% African American, 5% Hispanic.
LifeWorks Northwest
MILPA
Increases utilization of mental health services by Latinos by integrating mental health services with primary care at Virginia Garcia’s bilingual, bi-cultural health clinics.
Partner Agency: Virginia Garcia MH Clinics
Target Population: Underserved Latinos needing mental health services who are patients of VGMHC.
LifeWorks Northwest
School Readiness/Ready Schools
Provides kindergarten transition services and activities that connect families with young children to schools before they are enrolled. Established consistent curricula and program for English and Spanish parent groups.
Partner Agencies: Virginia Garcia MH Clinics, Forest Grove School District, Hillsboro School District, Beaverton School District
Target Population: Pre-school children and their families in Washington County. Outreach to families on Head Start waiting list.
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
New Youth Perspectives (NYP)
Mentoring program to improve engagement in school, following a Big Brother model, including classes for parents to improve parenting skills and advocacy.
Partner Agencies: Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon, Russian Oregon Social Services, The Children’s Course, First Tee Program, Human Solutions, Inc.
Target Population: Eastern European immigrant/refugee youth, ages
12-18 and their parents.
Metropolitan Family Service
Rowe Community School
Supports for youth and families, intergenerational mentoring through Experience Corps, parenting classes, family nights, leadership classes and service learning.
Partner Agencies: Rowe Middle School, N. Clackamas SD, YMCA Clackamas, SOLV
Target Population: 7th and 8th grade student and parent population at Rowe Middle School in the North Clackamas School District
Multnomah County Commission on Children, Families and Community
Project Summer: Everybody Eats
A tri-county collaboration between Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas Counties to expand education, outreach, and services for the summer food service program.
Partner Agencies: Clackamas County Commission on Children and Families, Washington County Commission on Children and Families, Oregon Hunger Relief Task Force
Target Population: Children and their parents experiencing food insecurity in Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties.
Multnomah County Domestic Violence Coordinator
Expanded Multnomah County DVERT
Improves collaboration across police, the District Attorney's office, Legal Aid, and victims services to provide a coordinated response to domestic violence, prosecution of offenders, and easier access to services for victims.
Partner Agencies: Portland and Gresham Police, Oregon Department of Human Services, Legal Aid, Multnomah County District Attorney, Multnomah County Probation Office, El Programa Hispana, IRCO, Raphael House, Volunteers of America
Target Population: Individuals experiencing domestic violence, many who are non-English speaking, especially those who speak Spanish as their first language. Culturally specific domestic violence service providers and police.
Multnomah County Health Department
Holistic Services Collaborative for Homeless Families
Comprises elements of a mobile clinical service and onsite childcare to expand access to health care and wrap-around services for homeless families at seven service centers.
Partner Agencies: Portland Impact, Inc., Community Transition School, JOIN, Albina Ministerial Alliance, Human Solutions, Inc.
Target Population: Homeless families in Multnomah County.
NAMI of Portland
Visions for Tomorrow
Hires a School Outreach Staff member to grow the capacity of revised Visions for Tomorrow program by recruiting parents of school-aged chrildren as participants.
Neighborhood House, Inc.
Child Care Improvement Project - Child Care Quality
A coordinated system of 120 child care providers serving 12,000 children and their families. Creates and sustains in-home child care provider networks to improve the quality of care for children, strengthens child care businesses, and increases economic self-sufficiency.
Partner Agencies: Early Head Start Family Center, ROSE Community Development Corp., Peninsula Child Care Center, Mt. Hood Head Start
Target Population: Includes a Russian network and a Latina network. Other networks serve African-American, European-American, Somali and Kurdish families.
Neighborhood House, Inc.
Child Care Improvement Project - Provider Income Improvement
Strengthens individual child care businesses and increases income of child care providers. Funding for this project is specifically designated to provide a marketing component to child care providers. Offers intensive, individualized resources to promote activities, enhance promotional capabilities, and market to the broader community, so these child care networks can increase participant capacity. This project is part of the joint funding process developed with BHCD.
Partner Agencies: Early Head Start Family Center, ROSE Community Development Corp., Peninsula Child Care Center, Mt. Hood Head Start
Neighborhood House, Inc.
School Readiness/Ready Schools
Provides kindergarten transition services and activities to connect families with young children to schools before they are enrolled.
Partner Agencies: Multnomah County Library, Early Words Program, Hayhurst and Markham Elementary Schools, Astor and Chief Joseph Elementary Schools, Children’s Museum/ Multnomah County Library, Southwest Community Health Clinic
Target Population: Preschool children and their families in Hayhurst and Markam Elementary Schools in Southwest Portland and Applegate, Kenton, Chief Joseph and Astor Schools in North Portland. Staff speak eleven languages to reach wide range of immigrant groups.
Neighborhood House, Inc.
Youth Career Exploration Project
Provides supports for middle school youth and their families designed to achieve academic success, homework club/tutoring, activities and structured career exploration, and parent involvement through home visits, ESL classes and support for family advocacy.
Partner Agencies: Portland Community College Sylvania Campus, Hillsdale Farmer's Market, SW Community Health Center, Robert Gray Middle School, Jackson Middle School
Target Population: Youth from low-income families at Robert Gray and Jackson Middle Schools in SW Portland/Multnomah County
Northwest Pilot Project, Inc.
Permanent Housing for Homeless: A Fresh Start
Places chronically homeless individuals into barrier free permanently affordable housing owned by the Housing Authority of Portland.
Partner Agency: Housing Authority of Portland
Target Population: Very low-income homeless individuals aged 55 and over with histories of past evictions and other barriers to obtaining permanent housing; 29% African American.
Northwest Regional ESD
Washington County School-Based Health Center Initiative
Community engagement, start-up and operation of a School-Based Health Center for increasing access of uninsured youth in Washington County to health and mental health services.
Outside In
Neighborhood in Need: Socio-Medical Outreach to SE 82nd Ave.
Holistic, interdisciplinary medical and social outreach to high-risk homeless and sex workers and their children on SE 82nd Ave. in Multnomah and Clackamas Counties.
Partner Agencies: Human Solutions, Inc., Clackamas Service Center, Portland Women's Crisis Line
Target Population: SE 82nd and Flavel neighborhood sex workers and their children, and homeless campers, families, veterans and transitional age youth and adults who access food boxes at Clackamas Service Center.
Outside In
Road Warrior Access Project
Innovative Mental Health project allows youth outreach partners to identify unmet client needs, identifies barriers to youth getting the help they need and finds ways to remove those barriers.
Partner Agencies: Janus – Willamette Bridge Programs, New Avenues for Youth
Target Population: Under-served homeless individuals, aged 21-25 who do not traditionally access homeless youth or adult services.
Outside In
Youth Employment Internship Program
This collaboration between social service agencies and Portland businesses provides job training, internship work experience, housing, and long-term job placement for homeless young adults, a population with a recognized gap in services.
Partner Agencies: Business Education Compact, Transition Projects, Inc., Area Businesses
Target Population: Homeless individuals ages 19-24.
Outside In
Youth Sexual Minority Voices
LGBT youth who are homeless and using services of the homeless youth system do outreach to their peers who are not receiving service in order to assure that 16 -24 year old homeless, sexual minority youth have safe, welcoming shelter and access to housing options and services.
Partners in Careers
Employment Connection
Employment services for low-income, otherwise unserved persons with disabilities and increased employment opportunities for all persons with disabilities in Southwest Washington.
Partner Agency: Division of Vocational Rehabilitation
Target Population: Low-income applicants for vocational rehabilitation services who are assessed as significantly disabled and would otherwise be placed on the waiting list.
Peninsula Children's Center
North Portland Children and Families Partnership
Provides accessible, integrated family support, wellness, and prevention services, child care, physical & mental health care, referrals, and advocacy for low income children & families in N/NE Portland.
Partner Agencies: Hearing & Speech Institute, Morrison Child and Family Services
Target Population: Low-income and working families with infants, toddlers, and preschoolers in North/Northeast Portland.
Planned Parenthood of the Columbia-Willamette
Latino Parent-Child Connectedness
Takes input from Latino parents regarding cultural concerns, beliefs, and family values to develop a series of culturally appropriate workshops to improve parents' ability to discuss reproductive and sexual health with their middle and high school aged children.
Portland Community College Capital Career Center
Washington County Housing and Employment Collaborative for Economic Stability
Four experienced service providers in Washington County provide a collaborative, inter-agency approach to assist individuals who are both homeless and unemployed.
Partner Agencies: Community Action Organization, Lifeworks Northwest, Oregon Department of Human Services
Target Population: Individuals in Washington County who experience both housing and employment barriers.
Portland Impact, Inc.
Coalition for Homeless Families Community Building
Engages families to participate in leadership training and identify ways in which the current service framework can be more efficient and effective in providing the supports that help families end their homelessness and remain housed.
Portland Impact, Inc.
Early Education Care & Family Services
Provides child care subsidies to families at risk of homelessness, child development training and coaching to parents through home/shelter visits, and to their child care providers in CCIP networks.
Partner Agencies: Neighborhood House, Inc., Child Care Improvement Project
Target Population: Extremely low income children whose families are at risk of homelessness in Multnomah County
Portland Impact, Inc.
Senior Transportation Program Expansion
Expands transportation options and services to seniors, maintaining and/or increasing personal independence and connection with the community.
Target Population: Seniors, primarily low income, living alone, and medically frail or disabled
Salvation Army - Clark County
An Integrated Approach to Food, Housing, & Employment Services
Provides integrated services for unemployed and under-employed persons and families in the areas of housing, food security, and employment.
Partner Agencies: Washington State University Cooperative Extension, Partners in Careers
Target Population: Individuals in Clark County with multiple barriers to housing and food security, without earned income and in need of employment skills.
SE Works
Southeast Portland Workforce-Housing Alliance
Aligns resources and expertise of housing and employment organizations to provide individuals with academic and employment opportunities that lead to stable employment. Brings employment services on-site at housing facilities and reserves a portion of partners' housing and related resources for participants in the program.
Partner Agency: Jointly funded with City of Portland’s Bureau of Housing and Community Development
Target Population: Residents of REACH and Portland Impact’s housing communities who are seeking employment.
Senior Citizens Council of Clackamas County, Inc.
Guardianship, Conservatorship and Diversion Services
Assures at-risk seniors shelter, food and medical care through advocacy and protection of adjudication. Our ultimate goal is dignity, safety and well-being.
Target Population: Very low income elderly in Clackamas County, a majority with dementia or a diagnosed mental illness or other mental/cognitive disability.
Somali Community Services Coalition
The Somali Family Wellness Project
Adapts the successful "Survival Skills for Healthy Families" curriculum to meet the language and cultural needs of Somali families with the goal of reducing family violence and assisting with acculturation to the broader society.
Technical Assistance for Community Services (TACS)
Fund Development Capacity Building Initiative
Provides intensive training and individualized consultation to help nonprofits implement effective fund development plans, build resources, and increase their fundraising capacity.
Target Population: 10 community-based nonprofits representing a diverse range of ethnicities, agency size, and experience.
Todos Juntos
Estacada PreventNet Stations
Provides out-of-school supports including homework help, skill development groups, literacy enhancement, peer mentoring and culturally-specific clubs.
Partner Agencies: Parrott Creek Girls Today program, Family Court Services, Commission on Children & Families, Estacada School District
Target Population: Students of Estacada Junior High School at risk of not achieving benchmarks and their families
United Cerebral Palsy Association of Oregon and Southwest Washington
Supported Employment
Provides employment supports and advocacy to achieve equitable wages and other employment related benefits, development of new skills, and increased community participation for people with disabilities.
Target Population: Adults with developmental disabilities within the Portland Metro area who have a desire to be employed referred through County and State programs
YWCA Clark County
Child Care Project
Provides no-cost child care and early intervention and family support services at 3 locations to underserved families who cannot access child care due to lack of available government assistance or personal income.
Partner Agencies: Innovative Services NW, Children’s Home Society of Washington, Vancouver Children's Therapy Center
Target Population: Children who do not qualify for state subsidies whose parents cannot afford child care, and those who are refused service at care centers needing support and resources to serve children with special needs
YWCA Clark County
Family Violence Services for LGBT
Gathers input from the LGBT community to design and deliver culturally appropriate family violence services and create resources to reduce the unique barriers and challenges for LGBT survivors.
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