Social Services For Youth & Children

Sexual Assault Resource Center

Continuing the new prevention collaboration with Self Enhancement Inc. addressing the commercial sexual exploitation of children/youth within the African American community.  The strategies remain the same as in 2014; however, this grant provides the addition of a Prevention Specialist representing the African American community, a component that was found to be essential for the success of the collaboration.

Social Venture Partners Portland

The Transitions project creates effective transition to kindergarten for children, families, communities, and schools in targeted districts where many of the 60% of Multnomah County children entering kindergarten with no prior classroom experience live.  For children with no prior classroom experience, their ability to socially, emotionally, and mentally adjust to a school environment can set them up for failure and a lag that is unrecoverable.  The transitions project aims to give these children the opportunity to enter kindergarten prepared to learn and able to move forward with their classmates and also prepares their families/caregivers to support them through that process.

SoundStart

SoundSTART offers comprehensive care for children and young adults using cochlear implants and hearing aids, and their families. The playground expands the full-day care classroom outside and provides a developmentally appropriate, safe place to play.

South Coast Family Harbor

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.

Stephen's Place

Supports the development of a larger garden space and involvement of an additional 15-20 children in our Horticultural Therapy program for a total of 25-35 children and 30 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities benefiting from this program.

Team Read

In 2020/21 we will employ 150 teens to tutor 300 2nd – 4th graders in reading across 17 schools. Each teen will work virtually in one:one tutoring sessions with two different readers, twice weekly. Summer plans will be made in January.

Team Read

Supports Team Read’s year-round reading tutoring and youth employment and development program that pairs carefully trained 8th-12th grade paid teen reading coaches with 2nd-4th graders who benefit from reading tutoring and mentoring support.

Technology Access Foundation

TAF’s mission is to equip students (of color) for success in college and in life through the power of an interdisciplinary STEM education and supportive relationships. This program serves 150 high school students + events that serve 700 6-12 graders.

The Canby Center

Support the Backpack Buddies Collaborative to source and provide weekend food backpacks to needy students in all six Canby elementary schools and the Barlow Head Start program and to create a manual for the program, making it easy to replicate.

The Dougy Center

Support for year two of a three year pilot project that provides guidance, connection and support for children ages 3-18 and their families who are experiencing an advanced life-shortening condition or illness.

The Dougy Center

Ensures that safe space and support is in place for 2,000 children, teens and young adults to find hope and healing in the face of grief due to the death of a parent or sibling.   The Dougy Center is the only child bereavement program in the Portland-area which does not limit the time that families can participate and is offered at no charge to families.

Family Nurturing Center

This project will allow us to create a child-centered space, in a newly renovated family campus building to provide therapeutic interventions addressing mental, emotional or behavioral disorders for 35-50 children, ages 2-5, and caregivers.

The GoodTimes Project

Cancer sometimes can get in the way of personal relationships. The You and Me Retreat offers a unique experience for one parent/guardian and one child from a family who has experienced pediatric cancer to (re)build their connection.

The Living Room

Develops a robust volunteer program that recruits, trains, manages, and retains volunteers that will directly support LGBTQ+ youth in Clackamas County, OR.

The Next Door, Inc.

Our Youth Services’ programs will provide 280 at risk or high-risk youth from the Mid-Columbia Gorge region with social-emotional support services. Participating youth will learn life and resiliency skills to thrive as adults through services that include:

* Mentoring Services will implement a best practices, evidence-based mentoring program that will recruit, screen, train, support, supervise activities, and create matches that will provide positive adult role models for at least 100 children and youth ages 6-20.

*Independent Living Program will provide life skills training and supervised activities for at least 15 foster youth.

*Oregon Trail Transitional Living will provide housing and life skills trainings for seven homeless or runaway 17-21 year olds, including young mothers.

*Summer Youth Employment Program will provide at least nine weeks of summer employment, conservation and environmental education for 10 youth.  This summer, we hope to provide maintenance to areas affected by the Eagle Creek Fire—a region where our crews have always worked.

*Youth Outreach Worker will provide intensive, moderate and/or brief counseling and therapeutic services and support to at least 150 youth in Hood River County.