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P:ear offers a safe space and an open, non-judgmental and affirming community for homeless youth. They offer support with education, arts and music, cooking skills, parenting, and recreation events including bike rides and hikes. +
ar: A non-profit organization that provides homeless and transitional youth with a safe, supportive space and creative mentorship. +
PCs for People distributes low-cost refurbished computers and internet to income- eligible individuals through an easy-to-apply online application system. Every desktop includes a mouse, keyboard, power cords and monitor cords at no additional cost.
The Oregon Public Library District has partnered with Pcs for People to be a distribution site. All requests and program eligibility are run through PCs for People.
For eligibility requirement, please visit ''https://www.pcsforpeople.org/eligibility/'' .
To register to be connect with PCs and receive further information, please visit ''https://oregonlibrary.pcsrefurbished.com/event/registration'' . +
'''Employment'''
''https://www.pdxblackexcellence.com/''
PDX Black Excellence is a community organization cultural movement to connect and support Portland’s black residents and advocates. Through select services and curated events they seek to foster social and professional networking, new relationships, and new understanding. From executives to artists, students to entrepreneurs, everyone is welcome. PDX Black Excellence believes that embracing diversity is at the center of fostering new innovation, new business, new collaboration, and new opportunity. Their website includes lists of community organizations, programs, services, individuals, and businesses. +
Mutual‑aid volunteer network providing deliveries, rides, and resource navigation. +
PDX Free Fridge is a community-based mutual aid effort to increase access to free food and vital supplies by creating a network of independent fridges and pantries in Portland, Oregon. Their mission is to redistribute existing resources by providing access to free food and supplies through community fridges and pantries. An interactive and printable map of the locations of fridges and pantries is provided on their website. +
The '''PDX Sex Worker Resource Project (PDXSWRP)''' aims to support people in the sex trades by providing harm reduction supplies and supports specific to the work. They also provide resources and referrals by connecting participants to organizational support through community partners. They operate a mobile outreach unit in areas of the Portland metro area in which they can reach the most marginalized workers. PDXSWRP is fiscally sponsored by the YWCA.
'''Supporting''' in person and full service Sex Workers is at are our core
Since beginning their work, PDXSWRP has provided over $70,000.00 in direct cash aid and resource distribution. Their Pink Van mobile project gives them the ability to bring parenting supplies, harm reduction tools, Narcan, basic hygiene resources, and more resources directly to the communities they serve in East County. They have trained over 100 community members in the use Narcan and offered Sex Worker specific trainings to non-profit and government based organization including the Sex Trafficking services Expansion Project (STEP), Oregon Health Authority, and 2020 Oregon Coalition of Domestic and Sexual Violence.
Pink Van Project hours:
Wednesdays @ Lents Park 1–3 p.m. Third Saturday @ Glenhaven Park 1–3 p.m. Fourth Saturday @ 16221 SE Start 1–3 p.m.
For a complete of pharmacy, harm reduction, work, and family supplies provided: ''https://www.pdxswrp.org/donate'' +
PEN America Prison and Justice Writing Program - Incarcerated Adult and Youth Support Services and Programs +
PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. They champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Their mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.
PEN America’s '''Prison and Justice Writing Program''' has amplified the work of thousands of writers who are creating while incarcerated in the United States. By providing resources, mentorship, and audiences outside the walls, PEN helps these writers to join and enrich the broader literary community. Committed to the freedom to write in U.S. prisons as a critical free expression issue of our time, PEN leverages the transformative possibilities of writing to raise public consciousness about the societal implications of mass incarceration and support the development of justice-involved literary talent.
PEN America’s Prison and Justice Writing program initiatives include:
'''Prison Banned Books Week''' To commemorate the first Prison Banned Book Week, PEN America released a new report showing the staggering extent of restrictions on reading materials for people in carceral settings.
'''The Sentences That Create Us''' PEN America’s new book, The Sentences That Create Us: Crafting A Writer’s Life in Prison (Haymarket Books) provides a road map for incarcerated people and their allies to have a thriving writing life behind bars—and shared beyond the walls—that draws on the unique insights of more than fifty contributors, most themselves justice-involved, to offer advice, inspiration and resources.
'''PEN Prison Writing Contest''' For over 30 years, hundreds of imprisoned writers from around the country submit poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and dramatic works to the yearly PEN Prison Writing Contest, one of the longest-running outlets of free expression for the country’s incarcerated population.
'''Prison Writing Mentor Program''' PEN America’s Prison Writing Mentor Program consists of more than 300 working writers in relationship with close to 300 incarcerated writers working together toward individualized literary goals and cultivating an engaged literary community through and behind the walls.
'''Writing for Justice Fellowship''' PEN America’s Writing for Justice Fellowship commissions writers—emerging or established—to create written works of lasting merit that illuminate critical issues related to mass incarceration and catalyze public debate.
'''Works of Justice Publications and Podcast''' ''Works of Justice'' is a PEN America Prison and Justice Writing online literary series and podcast that explores the relationship between writing and incarceration, and challenges current conversations about criminal justice in the United States.
'''Portland''' ''1411 SW Morrison Street Suite 310'' ''Portland, Oregon 97205''
#'''Hillsboro''' ''222 SE 8th Avenue, Suite 212'' ''Hillsboro, OR 97123''
#''Open Monday–Thursday, 9 a.m.–8 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.–3 p.m.'' ''Payments are on a sliding scale.''
Pacific Psychology Clinic is part of Pacific University's school of Professional Psychology and is one of the main training sites for their doctoral students and interns. Their therapists are advanced doctoral psychology students supervised by licensed psychologists. Pacific Psychology Clinic provides outpatient assessment and psychotherapy services to children, adolescents, adults, couples and families in the greater Portland area. They offer evidence-based treatments and comprehensive assessments. Services include cognitive-behavioral and behavioral therapies, treatments for anxiety disorders, insight-oriented, longer-term therapies, group therapy, couples therapy, child and family services, learning disability assessments, and more. Pacific
Psychology Clinic operates a sliding scale fee system based on our clients' incomes and convenient hours.
They offer comprehensive psycho-educational and neuropsychological assessments for a variety of academic, attention, medical and emotional difficulties including:
* learning disabilities
* attention deficit (ADHD)
* cognitive and emotional difficulties
* memory difficulties
* head injuries and other medically related cognitive difficulties
* service connection evaluations for PTSD and mental health diagnosis
* PTSD evaluations +
Pacific Refugee Support Group (PRSG) (formerly Portland Refugee Support Group)
is dedicated to re-empowering refugees through education and social support so that they may find an independent life in the US. Government contracted resettlement agencies receive funding to support refugees for a limited time and are centered on initial needs. PRSG picks up where these agencies leave off by fostering self-sufficiency with programs centered on economic mobility, education, social capital, and community re-empowerment to support a successful transition to a new home. +
A location where various mental and behavioral health services are available, but not a specific facility itself. +
A culturally-specific substance use disorder treatment center that provides services to the Native American community. +
Painted Horse Recovery Center offers drop-in support for Native Americans and others who are looking for culturally specific services. Their services are open to anyone wanting recovery support and they include 12 step meetings, such as wellberiety, Native based AA, NA, recovery events, skill building groups, and culture nights for Native American families. The Recovery Center is alcohol and drug free. It provides a safe space to engage in cultural activities by embracing Native American traditional ways, such as drumming, drum making, and native-based sobriety meetings, as well as a place to connect with other Native Americans on a similar journey.
The Recovery Center has pool and foosball tables, a play station, a TV, a kitchen, a clothing closet, books, lockers, a crafts room, meeting rooms for a wide range of drug and alcohol treatment groups, a medicine closet, a children’s room, and a storage room.
Painted Horse Recovery provides free Native-based substance use recovery peer services to adults. All peer services are delivered by Certified Recovery Mentors with at least two-years of abstinence. To obtain a mentor, an intake is done to assess past and current addiction issues. Mentors assist mentees in making positive connections to the native community and in making referrals for treatment and other assistance programs. +
Painted Horse Recovery is a clean and sober Native American community center. Although their focus is on Native American culture, it is open to all seven days a week from 2:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m.
The center has pool and foosball tables, a play station, a TV, a kitchen (from which snacks, coffee and other food items are provided throughout the day), a clothing closet, books, lockers, a crafts room (where beading, drum-making, and native dress-making classes occur), meeting rooms for a wide range of drug and alcohol treatment groups, a medicine closet, a children’s room, and a storage room ( which contains indigenous foods, barbecues that can be checked out, tents, sleeping bags, diapers, socks, and toiletry items).
Painted Horse has a peer mentor program. To obtain a mentor, an intake is done to assess one’s past and current addiction issues. Mentors assist mentees in making positive connections to the native community and make referrals for them to treatment and public assistance programs. +
Painted Horse Recovery is a clean and sober Native American community center. Although their focus is on Native American culture, everyone is welcome. The center is open seven days a week from 2–10 p.m.
The center has pool and foosball tables, a play station, a TV, a kitchen (from which snacks, coffee and other food items are provided throughout the day), a clothing closet, books, lockers, a crafts room (where beading, drum-making, and native dress-making classes occur), meeting rooms for a wide range of drug and alcohol treatment groups, a medicine closet, a children’s room, and a storage room ( which contains indigenous foods, barbecues that can be checked out, tents, sleeping bags, diapers, socks, and toiletry items).
Painted Horse has a peer mentor program. To obtain a mentor, an intake is done to assess one’s past and current addiction issues. Mentors assist mentees in making
positive connections to the native community and make referrals for them to treatment and public assistance programs. +
Community tent village (12 units) for adults (run by faith coalition WeShine) +
A non-profit organization that advocates for criminal justice reform and provides legal support and resources to crime victims and people with criminal convictions. +
Partnership for Safety and Justice is a leading voice for public safety and criminal justice reform. They seek to transform the criminal justice system by bringing together people who are justice involved, crime survivors, and the families and communities of both. Partnership for Safety and Justice advocates for policies that shrink the prison system, invest in programs that prevent crime, and promote healing for people harmed by crime and violence as a model for public safety and criminal justice reform.
Partnership for Safety and Justice’s Advocacy Institute for Safety & Justice program provides trauma-informed leadership development to Advocacy Leaders by providing monthly coaching meetings and trainings, retreats, and group projects driven by their leader’s interest and community needs. For more information about the Advocacy Institute contact:
Juli Ray Joy Movement Building Director email: ''juliray@safetyandjustice.org''
''text: (503)-849-8686'' +
A business that provides services but not a direct employment service provider for the general public. +
'''Employment/Training''' ''2808 SE 9th Ave.'' ''Portland, Oregon 97202'' ''https://www.pastlives.space/''
Past Lives was founded by a former prisoner whose experience of incarceration inspired him to embrace his dream to build stronger and more just communities. Past Lives believes in the strength of creative community to find place, purpose and belonging.
Past Lives is 26,000 square floor makerspace providing members 24/7/365 secure access to a wood shop, metal shop with blacksmithing, welding, fabrication, metal casing, a textile studio with screen printing, auto-embroidery and leatherworking, stained glass studio, tech hub with CNC and 3D printing, dark room for film and photography and more. They offer private studio spaces for rent and host classes, art galleries, and various events. Past Lives provides the collective resources to flourish through creative collaboration. They share their tools and knowledge to help each person grow. +