Social Services For Youth & Children

Nixyaawii Community School

Three projects to stress the importance of lifelong learning, building connections, and caring for ourselves and our environment for Native American youth on the Confederated Tribes of Umatilla Indian Reservation:

1.  Greenhouse project to understand the significance of horticulture and contribute positively to the environment through the production of organic vegetables, herb and flowers for community and school use.
2.  Foster lifelong learning via a cultural field trip to Portland, OR, where students will attend a writing workshop at Lewis & Clark College, a TEDx PDX (TED=Technology, Education and Design) event, tour Portland State University, and visit cultural attractions in Portland, such as Oregon Museum  of Science and Industry, the Portland Art Museum, The Oregon Zoo and other Washington Park attractions.
3. Encourage community and school interaction and engage students in planning, fundraising, and designing through the National Honor Society community project.  This is an event envisioned by student members of the local National Honor Society chapter, which is in its first year at our school, and gives youth, adults, and elders a healthy, positive experience to help frame choices for healthy social activities in the community.  This project includes clothing and food donations.

Northwest Housing Alternatives

The Annie Ross Shelter is the only shelter for families with children experiencing homelessness in Clackamas County.  Through five units of emergency shelter, five units of transitional housing, and supportive case management delivered by Family Support Specialists, the Annie Ross House will help approximately 50 families transition from homelessness in 2013.  More than just a place to sleep, the Annie Ross House connects families to social services to help them gain long-term housing stability. Family Support Specialists guide parents through the tough times, and help them break the cycle of poverty to give their children the best opportunity to succeed in school and throughout their lives.  Family Support Specialists provide the knowledge necessary for families to become and remain independent.

Oasis Advocacy & Shelter, Inc.

In Curry County, Oregon, we plan to prevent homelessness for 15 families over the course of approximately 1 year. “Families” who have experienced a form of interpersonal violence/abuse will be given priority.

Oasis Advocacy and Shelter, Inc.

Oasis Advocacy and Shelter has a 30+ year record of direct services for domestic violence/sexual assault survivors in Oregon. Offers: emergency shelter, court support, and advocacy services for survivors and their children.  General Operations support allows freedom to attend to the most appropriate needs of survivors.

Lincoln County Child and Family Day Treatment dba Olalla Center

Start-up funds will help to prepare the first therapeutic classroom in the new Olalla Center Relief Nursery, estimated in the first year to impact an estimated 60 families in Lincoln Co. with young children at high risk of abuse and/or neglect due to multiple stressors.

We have moved forward from “Emerging Relief Nursery” status to “Provisional Relief Nursery”. The Replication process takes 2 to 3 Years to reach full “Mature status with a therapeutic classroom.  Preparing the classroom is the next step in this process.

Old Mill Center for Children and Families

Since 2011, the Old Mill Center Relief Nursery has been serving 19 families at a time in the therapeutic classrooms.  Over the course of a year’s time, that has been between 25-30 families as children transition in and out of classrooms to other programs, such as Head Start and public kindergartens.  Unfortunately, throughout this time our ability to serve families in these much sought after classrooms has been limited by the lack of ability to provide transportation to those families in need.  The purchase of a van will enable us to more than double the capacity to transport children. The objectives include: 1) To transport up to 10 children a day, to and from their homes to their therapeutic classroom sessions; 2)To be able to transport up to 10 children a day for field trips and other special classroom events; 3)To be able to transport families or children in other programs as needed for appointments, special events and field trips; and  4) To provide staff travel to conferences, meetings or training.

Ophelia's Place

Delivers a holistic program of prevention-based services for underserved female and male youth in the rural Lane County, Oregon communities of Junction City, Harrisburg, Cottage Grove, Elmira and Mapleton.

Oregon Coast Community Action

This proposal will provide recruitment, training, and supervision support for our CASA volunteers. Our goal for this year is to recruit and train 15 new CASAs and serve at least 150 children. CASAs advocate for children in foster care.

Oregon Farm Academy

Funding will be used to build a perimeter deer fence and tool shed, and to purchase the materials to grow food and provide 4 workshops to at least 30 students. Within one year, the forest will provide fresh produce for 25 low-income families through a sliding-scale CSA.

Oregon Food Bank

Mission: To eliminate hunger and its root causes – because no one should be hungry.  Oregon Food Bank builds food security and helps to feed hungry people in Oregon.

Oregon Food Bank

Mission: To eliminate hunger and its root causes – because no one should be hungry.  Oregon Food Bank provides emergency food to people who are hungry through a cooperative statewide network of hunger-relief agencies, helping 1 in 5 households fend off hunger. OFB also leads statewide efforts to increase resources for hungry families and to eliminate the root causes of hunger by advocating for fair public policies, strengthening community food systems and providing nutrition and garden education to help people become more self-sufficient and resourceful.

Oregon Food Bank

Support of the Oregon Food Bank mission: To eliminate hunger and its root causes – because no one should be hungry.

Oregon Food Bank

Provides necessary food and food-related programming for low-income children and families, who might otherwise go without.

p:ear

p:ear creatively mentors homeless and transitional youth ages 15-24.  Through education, art, recreation and transition programs, p:ear builds positive relationships with each young person to affirm personal worth and to create more meaningful and healthier lives.  p:ear responds to the individual needs of each youth during the precarious and complex process of exiting street life and growing up without healthy, parental support.  p:ear helps homeless and transitional youth see themselves beyond homelessness.

p:ear

p:ear’s recreation program makes physical activity fun, safe and accessible, in both urban and wilderness settings, to Portland’s homeless youth. Two hundred and fifty-six youth participate in p:ear’s 44 outdoor trips annually. These experiences are often life changing.  Funds from this grant will provide the necessary gear for homeless young people to safely experience wilderness recreation.