Your search returned 13 result(s) from your selection: State is OR

For detailed information about a project below, please click on the link for "More Details." If you would like to start a new search, click on "Return To Search."

LIFE Plus
Portland, OR

With a curriculum based on a microenterprise model that teaches skills in business, healthy decision-making, communications and leadership, a multi-agency coalition aims to reduce recidivism among incarcerated women by promoting self-sufficiency and economic independence. Women may enroll up to two years prior to release and work with peer navigators (who are themselves formerly incarcerated) to bridge the pre- and post-release period. This grant fosters a multi-pronged approach to re-entry that spans economic development, criminal justice, social service and public health systems.

More Details | Return to Search

Family Lifelines
Salem, OR

Using a new home-based model of care, several agencies will coordinate services for foster children with serious emotional and behavioral challenges. A key component enables foster children to remain in their own rural communities by placing them in houses owned by a family service agency. Even if the foster parents are replaced, the children maintain residence in their ''forever home.'' Staying connected to their neighborhoods, teachers, local relatives and professional support improves a child's chances for success in school and in life. The program provides ongoing services to foster parents and children and to fragile families whose children are still at home.

More Details | Return to Search

Project Against Sexual Assault of Indigenous Farmworkers
Portland, OR

Indigenous farmworkers from Central America and Mexico speak their own languages (i.e. Mixteco, Trique or Zapotec) and are especially vulnerable to sexual abuse from ''bosses'' who control workers' jobs and living conditions. Barriers of language, culture and economic necessity often keep victims silent. Farmworkers, their union, health care providers and the justice system are partnering to prevent sexual harassment, mediate the health and psychosocial effects of abuse and bring perpetrators to justice. Interventions include home visits and radio socio-dramas to teach women about their rights and native speakers to translate at a local clinic.

More Details | Return to Search

Neighborhood Sparks
Portland, OR

This project provides health and human services for homeless and high-risk youth, sex workers and their children, chronically homeless adults with mental illness, and injection drug users living in an impoverished neighborhood just outside the city limits of Portland, OR. A new coalition including a Portland health center, hospital systems, a domestic violence program, Clackamas and Multnomah county homeless services and health department programs, a charter school, and an agency for at-risk youth offers medical and social programs. The coalition plans to develop a new health center, a youth resource center and school-based health services.

More Details | Return to Search

Community Partners Reinvestment Project
Portland, OR

The Community Partners Reinvestment (CPR) project works to reduce recidivism among young adult male offenders ages 18-25 with an individualized program of housing, employment, addiction treatment and other services. This grant will expand the model to include an integrated mental health component. Collaborating providers including the Oregon Department of Corrections have begun a pilot that engages the inmate and his family six months prior to discharge and includes a comprehensive psychosocial evaluation. The coalition partners emphasize that these ''emerging adults'' are at great risk of returning to prison without developmentally appropriate programs to guide their reentry into the community.

More Details | Return to Search

Wraparound Oregon
Portland, OR

Children with severe emotional and behavioral disorders currently receive the most costly, fragmented care, leaving families frustrated and disappointed. To improve the quality of life for these young people and their families, Wraparound Oregon proposes a systems change in the management of foster care, special education, juvenile justice and mental health that will enable agencies to share governance and resources. Enhanced coordination will offer the flexibility to create innovative, child-specific interventions to help children in their own communities. A sophisticated evaluation will determine whether this new model produces expected cost savings while offering more comprehensive support for children and families.

More Details | Return to Search

Kids' Connection
Portland, OR

Kids' Connection will establish new comprehensive services for children and youth ages 0-18, whose parent or primary caretaker is HIV-positive and whose physical well being, mental health and personal safety are at risk.

More Details | Return to Search

Early Assessment and Support Team (EAST)
Salem, OR

Educates the community and provides early intervention for young people with psychosis and their families in five rural, low-income Oregon counties. Early recognition of symptoms and appropriate treatment helps create opportunities for young people with psychosis to be successful in life.

More Details | Return to Search

Metamorphosis
Portland, OR

Increase the number of youth exiting street life by reducing barriers to access and retention of homeless youth in alcohol and other drug treatment through innovative non-traditional delivery models designed with substantive input from youth being served.

More Details | Return to Search

Powerful Tools for Caregiving
Portland, OR

The train the trainer model education program, Powerful Tools for Caregiving will support family caregivers in underserved communities throughout Oregon with special outreach to rural, minority and low income families including those whose primary language is Spanish or Korean. Community partnerships will be used to disseminate the program and ensure sustainability.

More Details | Return to Search

Safe and Sound Youth Project
Eugene, OR

Safe & Sound makes sure that homeless and runaway youth get the help they need to be healthy and safe. Services include health and safety education, outreach, shelter, advocacy and case management, medical services, and links to ongoing community supports.

More Details | Return to Search

Latino Medical Access Coalition
Eugene, OR

Coalition-based program to provide medical services to low-income rural Latinos.

More Details | Return to Search

Children's Assessment Service
Portland, OR

The Children's Assessment Service conducts developmental and mental health assessments and searches out medical records for referred children, birth through 13 years of age, entering the states legal custody in Multnomah County, Oregon.

More Details | Return to Search