Social Services For Youth & Children

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Morrison Child & Family Services

Project: SAGE bedroom make-over project

Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $14,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

The SAGE program, Support, Achieve Grow and Empower, serves girls ages 11-15 who are survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. This is a new program in a newly remodeled institutional building.  Although the bedrooms are large and nicely painted, they had few furnishings and because of the starkness, created a feeling of loneliness.  This served as a constant reminder that the girls are in a secure mental health facility, rather than a home.  This project provided furnishings for the bedrooms, a safe Sensory Room, activities and decorations at SAGE to transform the rooms into appealing living spaces, which will help to empower the therapeutic process by helping the girls to feel safer, happier, and supported.  Special care must be used to make sure that all furnishings minimize the potential to inflict harm.

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Mountain Star Family Relief Nursery

Project: Expansion of Services in Prineville, OR

Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Bend, OR
About:

Supports efforts as Mountain Star Family Relief Nursery grows and expands services to Prineville to prevent child abuse and promote success for 45 at-risk children and their families in Crook County over a one year period.  Includes unrestricted funding.

New classrooms in Prineville:

 



Mountain Star Family Relief Nursery

Project: Support for Prineville and/or LaPine satellite locations

Year: 2016 Grant Amount: $5,000 Location: Bend, OR
About:

Helps prevent child abuse and neglect by using individualized community supports to strengthen high-risk families and keep children safe, healthy and ready to learn.



MountainStar Family Relief Nursery

Project: LaPine Program Expansion

Year: 2023 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Bend, OR
About:

This funding will support our program expansion in rural La Pine. We will provide high-quality, therapeutic classrooms serving children ages 0-3 and crisis intervention and ongoing support to high-risk families.  We will also provide child developmental assessments, home visitations, transportation services, emergency food boxes, and referrals for mental health services. In FY 2021-22, 98% of children receiving Therapeutic Early Childhood Program services at MountainStar remained free from confirmed cases of abuse and neglect.



National Indian Child Welfare Association

Project: Native Family Advocacy Program

Year: 2020 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

NICWA works to eliminate child abuse and neglect by strengthening our families, tribes, and the laws that protect them. These funds will support the Native Family Advocacy Program, providing direct services in Oregon.



Native American Youth & Family Center

Project: Chxi San Playgroup

Year: 2014 Grant Amount: $8,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

Chxi San is designed to help parents learn to interact with their children in ways that support emotional and cognitive development.  Early learning opportunities in Chxi San prepare children for Head Start and Kindergarten readiness with structured play activities that increase social and developmental skills. Our culturally-specific program allows children to become engaged with their Native heritage while parents are supported with traditional Native parenting skills and values.

 



Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA)

Project: NAYA Learning Garden Project

Year: 2011 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

Support to expand and sustain the established NAYA Learning Garden, an interpretative native learning garden and vegetable garden, as a multi-faceted resource for our youth and the community.



Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA)

Project: Feed the People

Year: 2019 Grant Amount: $13,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

Supports the community by expanding the services of the food pantry that serves all NAYA programs.



Neighborhood House, Inc.

Project: Housing Program for Homeless Families with Children

Year: 2018 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

Provides safe and stable housing for 38-40 homeless families as they work to address the often serious challenges that underlie their homelessness, and rebuild their lives.

In addition to housing, families receive support from a case manager to help them connect with the resources they need, including employment opportunities, job training, mental health services and more.



New Avenues for Youth

Project: Homeless youth Parent Support program

Year: 2012 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

Provided extended parent support services within safe housing for 60 homeless youth who are pregnant/parenting, including a parent/child literacy program and play groups, play therapy for children, and parent groups and housing/ready-to-rent education for parents.  With a safe, stable and supportive environment, youth rise to the challenge and feel determined to break the cycle of abuse and neglect that for many of these parents is generational.

 



New Avenues for Youth

Project: New Meadows life-skills programming and case management

Year: 2018 Grant Amount: $18,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

New Meadows will provide approximately 15 youth transitioning from foster care with support and a safe place to live as they pursue education, career, and life goals during the proposed one-year project period.

New Meadows, a joint partnership of Bridge Meadows and New Avenues for Youth and a key initiative of New Avenues for Youth’s youth-homelessness prevention efforts, offers stable transitional housing, trauma-informed services, and a network of families and elders who nurture young people as they prepare to enter adulthood.



New Avenues for Youth

Project: Youth Homelessness Prevention and Intervention Services

Year: 2021 Grant Amount: $20,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

The proposed grant will help fund New Avenues’ wide range of services for youth experiencing houselessness and housing instability in the Portland area.



New Avenues for Youth

Project: SMYRC Center

Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

With an increasing focus on reaching youth earlier to prevent those at risk of homelessness from ever experiencing it, this grant helps bring to scale New Avenues’ newest program, the Sexual & Gender Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC), which serves the social, safety, and resource needs of LGBTQ youth.  The strategic union between New Avenues and SMYRC leverages the reputations, capacities, and competencies of both organizations, broadens service offerings, and creates a safety net for LGBTQ youth – who are at risk and experience high rates of homelessness in Multnomah, Washington and Clackamas counties.

Funding will support outreach to service providers to connect LGBTQ youth to culturally responsive supports; cultural sensitivity training to schools; and social support groups/events at New Avenues and in the tri-counties.

2014 New Avenues Annual Report

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New Avenues for Youth

Project: Wilderness & Experiential Therapy Program Development

Year: 2015 Grant Amount: $15,000 Location: Portland, OR
About:

New Avenues for youth is working with Catalyst Wilderness Therapy Program to explore opportunities for developing wilderness and experiential therapy programming that can be integrated into and supplement PDX-Connect, a comprehensive suite of prevention programs for youth in foster care, who are at high risk of homelessness.  The combination of a backcountry setting, small group size, and intensive support from expert guides and therapists makes wilderness therapy a powerful option for those struggling with the long-term effects of abuse to release the negative patterns of their daily lives.  It also addresses pre-existing traumatic experiences and offers opportunities for youth to gain confidence and develop skills that contribute to successful transitions into adulthood.



Newport Food Pantry

Project: Newport Food Pantry Prepared Food Program

Year: 2022 Grant Amount: $10,000 Location: Newport, OR
About:

Our objective is to provide people who live in poverty nutritious food so that they are able to maintain health and focus on developing changes that will enable success


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