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Good Neighbor Vet is a mobile veterinary clinic that travels to different grocery stores and retailers throughout the Portland-metro area. Good Neighbor Vet can provide routine care such as vaccinations, deworming, flea treatment, and micro-chipping at a very minimal cost, and with no exam fee. Good neighbor Vet does not provide treatment or examinations for ill or injured pets. For a list of participating locations, please visit
''https://good-neighbor-vet-2.webflow.io/locator?radius=30&locate=97204'' +
A non-profit organization that provides job training, employment placement services, and other community-based programs for people with disabilities or other barriers to employment. +
'''Employment/Education''' ''1943 SE 6th Ave.'' ''Portland, Oregon''
''vocservices@gicw.org''
Goodwill Industries is a non-profit organization offering job training and search services, computer resources, and job referrals. All of their services are free to the public. Their mission is to provide vocational opportunities to people with disabilities as well as others with barriers to employment. There are multiple locations for their community training centers. ''https://meetgoodwill.org/training-and-development/''
Goodwill’s '''Training and Development Program''' consists of three main training opportunities: Career Center (CC), English as a Second Language (ESL), and Employee and Community Education (ECE). Each offers a variety of free in-person and virtual services dedicated to individual skills development.
Goodwill’s '''Career Center''' provides training, on-site tools and development support to help individuals achieve their goals. Free services include: Microsoft Office, Google Workspace and Computer Basics classes. Their vocational services and ancillary services programs work with organizations throughout Oregon and Southwest Washington. ''https://meetgoodwill.org/td-career-center/''
Goodwill’s '''Job Connection Program''' provides one-on-one job assistance with resume and cover letters, personalized job leads and referrals, job fairs, meet the employer events, skills review and assessments, interview tips and practice, and computer availability. Stop in to meet a job coach ''Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. or call (503) 239-'' ''1734'' . ''https://meetgoodwill.org/job-connection-home/''
Their '''Community Education Program (ECE)''' provides free educational workshops and class opportunities to community members and Goodwill employees to enhance their development of personal and professional skills. Free services include: workshops in leadership development, career development, health & well being, financial literacy and family strengthening. ''https://meetgoodwill.org/employee-communtiy-services/''
Goodwill’s '''Community Employment Opportunities Long Term Services''' programs offers employment assistance to individual with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ''https://meetgoodwill.org/long-term-services/''
A program that provides employment services, job coaching, and training to individuals with disabilities. +
Goodwill Industries’ Skills Training and Enrichment Program (STEP) is an adult learning environment for participants with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) to develop non-job-specific employment and independent life skills to reach their highest potential. Through training resources, skill-building in a variety of activities, and experiences within the community, participants are offered the opportunity to develop social awareness, build relationships and overcome barriers to employment. For many participants these skills lead to integrated community jobs and greater independence. +
Low Income Rentals-Portland - Housing +
As a furniture bank, it collects donated household items and furniture and distributes them to families and individuals in need through partner social service agencies. They also accept donations from the public at this location. +
Habitat for Humanity Restore - Community Service Opportunities +
A year‑round women‑only shelter in Gresham, offering approximately 70 beds along with meals, housing support, and 24/7 operations. Referrals are required. +
Low Income Rentals-Portland - Housing +
'''Providence Portland Medical Center''' ''4805 NE Glisan Street'' ''Portland, Oregon 97213''
#Grief support groups are held monthly on an ongoing basis. They are free to attend and open to all. Contact Hospice Bereavement Services at (503) 215-4622 in order to talk with the group facilitator before joining the group for the first time.
'''The Dougy Center''' ''3909 SE 52nd Avenue'' ''Portland, Oregon 97206''
#The mission of The Dougy Center is to provide support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families who are grieving a death can share their experiences. Through their Pathways Program, they provide a safe place for families facing an advanced serious illness. +
Ground Score Association - Employment And Education +
'''Employment/Training'''
''624 NE Couch Street, Portland, OR 97209''
''https://www.groundscoreassociation.org/''
Ground Score Association is an association of informal recyclers, waste pickers, canners, dumpster divers, and other environmental workers who create and fill low-barrier waste management jobs in Portland, Oregon. Ground Score is collectively-organized and radically inclusive, prioritizing work opportunities for those facing work and housing insecurity. Ground Score seeks to build a more environmentally and socially aware community while changing society's perceptions of what and who is considered valuable.
'''Ground Score Leading Inclusively Together Through Environmental Recovery or''' '''G.L.I.T.T.E.R.''' provides litter collection and tent-side waste collection services for houseless camps across the Portland Metro Region. It ensures sanitation for those who would otherwise lack access to them and keeps our city's streets and sidewalks clean for all.
The '''People's Depot''' is Ground Score's beverage redemption center operated for canners, by canners. The People's Depot generates formal, benefitted jobs for workers, serves hundreds of canners a week in the Central Eastside, and prevents the emission of hundreds of tons of CO2 equivalent (greenhouse gases) a year.
Ground Score's '''Reuse Team''' offers a '''Sewing Program''' for low-barrier learning in the recovery, reuse and repair of textiles. Most materials come from GSA’s waste collection routes and community partners. This program is fundraising towards a fully- functioning eco-production studio.
Ground Score operates special programs to serve community members. They currently provide day storage, connect unhoused neighbors living unsheltered in Old Town with supportive housing, and conduct environmental and health outreach in partnership with other local organizations. +
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Habitat for Humanity Restore - Community Service Opportunities +
A non-profit organization that builds and repairs homes in partnership with low-income families +
Habitat for Humanity Portland/Metro East develops decent, affordable homes in partnership with qualified homebuyers who help build and then purchase their homes with an affordable mortgage.
Future homeowners need to meet the following criteria in order to qualify for the Habitat for Humanity program:
* Must be a United States citizen or permanent legal resident
* Must have not owned a house in the past three years
* Must be willing to contribute 300 hours of “sweat equity.”
* Must have proof of steady income and have satisfactory credit history
* Must be within 35-60% of the median Portland area household income
* Applicants must have a combined minimum annual gross income of at least $30,000
'''Acquisition Rehabs''' In collaboration with community partners, home sponsors and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Habitat for Humanity acquires foreclosed, abandoned, and current low-cost housing stock as part of our investment in revitalizing entire neighborhoods. Habitat is able to rehabilitate empty houses into simple, decent homes for qualified low-income families.
'''Home Repairs''' We are currently able to do a variety of exterior repairs, including roof repair/replacement, window and door installation, painting, yard cleanups, junk removal, siding repair, deck repair, gutters, and more. Projects can be big or small. We are not able to do interior repairs or additions. Call with questions. +
'''Beaverton ReStore''' :
''13475 SW Millikan Way'' ''Beaverton, Oregon 97005''
'''Portland ReStore''' :
''10445 SE Cherry Blossom Dr.'' ''Portland, Oregon 97216''
'''Gresham ReStore''' :
''610 NE 181st Ave.'' ''Portland, Oregon 97230'' ''https://pdxrestore.org/volunteer/''
''Rickie Ramsperger, Volunteer Coordinator (she/her)'' '''HFHI Portland ReStore''' ''10445 S.E. Cherry Blossom Dr. Portland, Oregon 97216''
''rickie.ramsperger@habitatportlandregion.org''
If you have community service hours to complete for a misdemeanor, please register for court-appointed volunteering at the ReStore by visiting
''https://volunteer.habitatportlandregion.org/court-appointed-community-service/''.
When you register, you will be prompted to complete a background check through Sterling Volunteers. On average, the background check can take up to 10 business days to process.
Please note that we are unable to accept individuals who have a history of person-to- person crime (e.g. assault, battery, etc.), theft (e.g. burglary, robbery, etc.), or harassment. This is not an all-encompassing list. +
Habitat for Humanity Restore - Community Service Opportunities +
Low Income Rentals-Portland - Housing +
HandsOn Offers a variety of volunteer events. You will need to create an account and check their calendar for opportunities that will work within your particular schedule, etc.
For court-ordered volunteering, please visit ''https://www.handsonportland.org/Court_Ordered_Volunteering'' '''*''' for a list of organizations you can reach out to directly to volunteer. The individual organizations will be responsible for the final verification of your service.
Hands On Greater Portland volunteers must sign a waiver that they’ve never been convicted of or charged with a violent crime, child abuse or neglect, child pornography, child abduction, kidnapping, rape or any sexual offense, or ordered by a court to receive psychiatric or psychological treatment in connection to that crime.
'''*This website may have additional community service opportunities that are not''' '''included in this Resource Guide, but not all of them accept court ordered volunteers.''' +