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Central City Concern

232 NW Sixth Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
Phone: (503) 294-1681
Fax: (503) 294-4321
Email: sbonczek@centralcityconcern.org
Web: www.centralcityconcern.org
Director: Richard Harris
HCH Coordinator: Ed Blackburn
Medical Director: Rachel Solotaroff, MD
UDS Number: 107660

Project Description

Central City Concern (CCC) was founded in 1979 to provide pathways to self-sufficiency through active
intervention in poverty and homelessness. CCC services have developed to include a continuum of care, including
health care, chemical dependency treatment, mental health services, case management, special needs housing, very
low income housing, workforce development, and employment services.

Central City Concern health services provides primary care that is integrated across several dimensions at the
Portland Alternative Health Center (PAHC) and Old Town Clinic sites. Services include allopathic primary care,
complementary care, mental health and chemical dependency treatment, case management, professional mentoring,
outreach, pharmacy, health/nutrition education, recuperation care, and special needs housing support services.
Dental care is provided through linkage with a volunteer service. CCC provides medically monitored detoxification,
primary care, and outreach services at the Hooper Center. Agreements with area hospitals for uninsured and
managed care contracts for Oregon Health Plan clients provide access to specialty providers and hospital care. CCC
also provides 1,309 units of 30 percent and below housing and 934 units of single and family alcohol and drug free
community housing units (ADFC). CCC also provides job training, development, and placement services.

Linkages include Outside Inn, Multnomah County Health Department, Native American Rehabilitation Association,
DePaul Treatment Centers, Tualatin Valley Treatment Center, Russell Street Dental, Comprehensive Options for
Drug Abuse, CareOregon, Cascadia Behavioral Health, and area hospitals.

Estimated homeless population: 18,000 Patients served: 4,946

Community Health Centers of Lane County - Safe & Sound Homeless Youth Clinic

Mailing Address:
125 East Eighth Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Location:
947 West Seventh Avenue
Eugene, OR 97402
Phone: (541) 682-3350
Fax: (641) 682-3760
Email: katy.bloch@co.lane.or.us
Web: www.lanecounty.org/hsc/safe_and_sound.htm
Director: Steve Manela, MS, PA
HCH Coordinator: Katy Bloch
Medical Director: Larry Myers, MD
UDS Number: 107920

Project Description

Safe & Sound (S&S) uses a multidisciplinary team approach to provide medical, mental health, and substance abuse
treatment within wraparound services, including shelter, transitional housing, education, employment, and assistance
to meet basic needs. Once a relationship is established with staff, youth develop individualized plans and identify
useful tools. Services are accessible through any of eight partner doors. The S&S clinic is a satellite of Community
Health Centers of Lane County.

Safe & Sound Homeless Youth Clinic provides medical, mental health and substance abuse services for homeless,
runaway, and at-risk youth. In addition, youth receive sexual assault support services, HIV
education/testing/counseling, health and safety education, shelter, transitional housing, case management, and other
supportive services. The day access center provides forums for youth to access basic needs, such as food, clothing,
showers, and telephone.

Safe & Sound has received considerable support from many sectors of the community, including the government,
health professionals, hospitals, businesses, foundations, and other social service organizations. S&S works with
Lane County Child and Adolescent Behavioral Health, Department of Public Health, and PeaceHealth Hospital. In
addition, S&S provides a balanced approach to working with youth that includes businesses, public safety, and
social service agencies working together to address the complex issues of homelessness.

Estimated homeless population: 8,767 Patients served: 1,748

Direction Services Counseling
576 Olive Street
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact: Jacqui Lichtenstein
Phone: (541) 344-7303
Fax: (541) 686-6283
Email: jlichtenstein@directionservice.org

Looking Glass Youth and Family Services
72-B Centennial Loop
Eugene, OR 97401
Contact: Galen Phipps
Phone: (541) 686-2688
Fax: (541) 345-7605
Email: gphipps@aol.com / galen.phipps@lookingglass.us

Multnomah County Health Department

426 SW Stark, 5th Floor
Portland, OR 97204
Phone: (503) 988-5140 Ext. 2285
Fax: (503) 988-5180
Email: kim.h.tierney@co.multnomah.or.us
Web: www.co.multnomah.or.us/health
Director: Lillian Shirley
HCH Coordinator: Kim Harris Tierney
Medical Director: Patsy Kullberg
UDS Number: 101120

Project Description

The Multnomah County Health Department operates the Westside Health Center, a large downtown clinic, two
satellite clinics, a small respite program, and a mobile medical unit added in 2006. The program also operates La
Clinica de Buena Salud in a largely Hispanic community.

Services include primary care, prenatal, family planning, addictions medicine, chronic illness care, TB/STD
treatment, immunizations, nutrition, rheumatology, mental health, substance abuse, case management, respite,
nutrition, lab, radiology, pharmacy, after hours triage, and referrals.

The HCH program has linkages with more than 10 agencies to take weekly referrals. It also links with corrections
departments to help transition chronically mentally ill inmates directly into mental health care upon release from jail.

Estimated homeless population: 18,000 Patients served: 3,475

Central City Concern- Community Engagement Program
523 NW Everett 8
Portland, OR 97209
Contact: Claudia Krueger
Phone: (503) 294-1681
Fax: (503) 546-2390
Email: claudia@centralcityconcern.org

Central City Concern-Old Town Clinic
Northwest Eighth
Portland, OR 97209
Contact: Ted Amann
Phone: (503) 241-3836
Fax: (503) 546-2390
Email: tamann@centralcityconcern.org

Central City Concern- Portland Alternative Health Care
8 Northwest Eighth
Portland, OR 97209
Contact: Sarah Goforth
Phone: (503) 228-4533
Fax: (503) 294-4321
Email: sgoforth@centralcityconcern.org

Hooper Detox Center
232 SW Sixth Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
Contact: Susan Steiner
Phone: (503) 238-2067
Fax: (503) 238-2004
Email: ssteiner@centralcityconcern.org

Taft/Concepts in Community Living, Inc.
1337 SW Washington
Portland, OR 97205
Contact: Sharon Carter
Phone: (503) 255-4647
Fax: (503) 225-5929
Email: scarter@ccliving.com

Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest, Inc.

1776 SW Madison Street
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: (503) 224-1044
Fax: (503) 621-2235
Email: jmercer@naranorthwest.org
Web: www.naranorthwest.org
Director: Jacqueline A. Mercer, MA, CADC II
HCH Coordinator: Linda Drebin
Medical Director: Carol Blenning, MD
UDS Number: 107880

Project Description

The Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest (NARA-NW) provides integrated health, mental
health, substance abuse treatment, and social services to Native American and Alaska Native people who are
homeless or have low incomes. NARA-NW has been providing services in the Portland area since 1970. NARANW
primarily serves people living in Oregon and Southwest Washington. The NARA-NW community health center
operates one primary health clinic, a satellite clinic within the residential substance abuse treatment center, an
outpatient mental health center, an outpatient substance abuse treatment center, a residential substance abuse
treatment center, and a small pharmacy.

NARA-NW provides health, mental health and substance abuse treatment services that are culturally specific to the
needs of American Indian and Alaska Native people. These services are often coupled with social services and
supports that enable access to services such as case management, transportation, and housing assistance. NARANW
has more than 100 staff deployed across four sites and in the community.

NARA-NW has linkages with area schools, the region's Departments of Health, other community health centers,
substance abuse treatment providers, and homeless services providers. NARA-NW also has linkages to the region's
tribes and other Urban Indian programs.

Estimated homeless population: 18,000-24,000 Patients served: 712

Northwest Medical Teams International, Inc.
P.O. Box 10
Portland, OR 97207
Contact: Dick Rowland
Phone: (503) 624-1000
Fax: (503) 624-1001
Email: drowland@nwmt.org

Northwest Human Services

681 Center Street NE
Salem, OR 97301
Phone: (503) 588-5828
Fax: (503) 588-5852
Email: plogan@nwhumanservices.org
Web: www.northwesthumanservices.org
Director: Paul Logan
HCH Coordinator: Jeri Weeks
Medical Director: Lance Loberg, MD
UDS Number: 100760

Project Description

Northwest Human Services (NWHS) serves individuals who are homeless in Salem through outreach services
provided by its Homeless Outreach and Advocacy Project and by providing medical services at its West Salem
Clinic, a community health center.

Services

The West Salem Clinic and the Total Health Community Clinic provide primary health care and mental health care,
using the services of a health care team comprising physicians, physician's assistants, nurses, counselors, and
outreach workers. In addition to providing primary care, NWHS serves as the entry point for social services for
persons who are homeless. Additional components of the NWHS program include the Homeless Outreach and
Advocacy Project (coordinates outreach and comprehensive mental illness services, including dual diagnosis
treatment), Homes Offering Shelters to Teens (assists runaway and homeless youth and their families), and Crisis
and Information Hotline (provides 24 hour information, referral, and crisis counseling services).

Linkages are in place with other agencies to provide substance abuse treatment.

Statistics

Estimated homeless population: 8,000 Patients served: 953

Outside In

1132 SW 13th Avenue
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: (503) 535-3800
Fax: (503) 535-3868
Email: jduke@outsidein.org
Web: www.outsidein.org
Director: Kathy Oliver, PhD
HCH Coordinator: John Duke, MBA
Medical Director: Wayne Sells, MD, MPH
UDS Number: 106290

Project Description

Outside In uses interdisciplinary and alternative medicine to reach the hardest to serve homeless and marginalized
populations, including homeless youth, injection drug users, Latino day laborers, and sex workers. In 2005, the
clinic was dually funded as a Community Health Center. The agency also operates extensive homeless youth social
services, including mental health counseling, housing, drop-in, employment services, and an alternative school.

Outside In provides primary care and health education. Through partnerships with medical schools, Outside In
provides allopathic, naturopathic, and Oriental medicine and acupuncture. The clinic contracts for mental health and
substance abuse services. Dental care is provided by volunteer dentists. A contract psychiatrist provides diagnosis,
counseling, and prescriptions. Outside In's co-medical directors oversee medical residents and 4th year naturopathic
students in providing services. The medical director has admitting privileges at Oregon Health and Sciences
University Hospital. Staff at Outside In does extensive outreach. Multnomah County provides free lab tests. The
Outside In clinic has mutual referral relationships with other safety net clinics and a referral network of private
medical specialists who see patients free of charge. The program conducts medical outreach using a mobile medical
van and operates a tattoo removal program for gang-involved youth. The agency also operates a "Doggy Day-Care
Center," an employment training program for homeless youth and social enterprise generating revenue.

Outside In has reciprocal referral relationships with Multnomah County's Downtown Clinic and Old Town Clinic,
both of which serve low income and homeless adults. Outside In also has referral arrangements with the Native
American Rehabilitation Association which serves Native Americans of all ages.

Estimated homeless population: 12,000 Patients served: 4,569

National College of Naturopathic Medicine
49 SW Porter
Portland, OR 97201
Contact: William Keppler
Phone: (503) 255-7355
Fax: (503) 255-1308

Northwest Medical Team Dental Van
PO Box 10
Portland, OR 97207
Contact: Georgene Burnett
Phone: (503) 624-1000
Fax: (503) 624-1001

Oregon Health Services University
3930 Macadam Avenue, MC-104
Portland, OR 97239
Contact: Debbie Goss
Phone: (503) 494-5075
Fax: (503) 494-6937

White Bird Homeless Health Care

341 East 12th Avenue
Eugene, OR 97401
Phone: (541) 342-8255
Fax: (541) 342-7987
Email: info@whitebirdclinic.org
Web: www.whitebirdclinic.org
Director: Robert Dritz
HCH Coordinator: Robert Dritz
Medical Director: James Newhall, MD
UDS Number: 100700

Project Description

White Bird Homeless Health Care (WBHHC) project serves people who are homeless in the Eugene-Springfield
metropolitan area.

WBHHC provides primary medical and dental services, including immediate, ongoing, and preventive care, at a
joint facility centrally located in Eugene. Basic laboratory work and medication are provided. Access to specialists,
diagnostic services, and hospital admissions are arranged. Staff includes physicians, dentists, dental assistants, a
psychologist, a hygienist, nurses, counselors, EMTs, acupuncturists, and mental health, crisis, and substance abuse
workers. WBHHC provides 24-hour crisis counseling as well as screening, evaluation, and referral for mental health
and substance abuse services. The project’s Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets (CAHOOTS) street
intervention team is a part of the public safety system. A range of mental health treatment is available through the
agency's PATH project. Detoxification is provided. Project enhancements include a vision clinic, providing free eye
exams and eyeglasses, a full dental program, outreach eligibility work, medication funds, community case
management, and a new HOPE (Social Security Assistance) project. More than 100 volunteers work in the project,
including physicians, dentists, optometrists, opticians and hygienists from the community.

Ties exist with the entire Eugene human service network, including government, nonprofit, church, and private
entities. Health system linkages include hospitals, the health department, specialists, labs, diagnostic services, and
professional societies (medical, dental, optometric, and hygienist). The project works cooperatively with local
shelters, detox, public safety, and local hospitals. WBHHC is a member of Lane County's mental health, substance
abuse, medical, and information/referral systems. Coordination is arranged through the 100% Access Project,
Community Mental Health Consortium, Lane County Substance Abuse Coordinating Group, Eugene's Community
Response Team, and WBHHC's Interagency Management-Planned Approaches to Community Treatment (IMPACT)
Network. WBHHC is also a member of the City of Eugene's Public Safety/911 system through CAHOOTS,
its mobile intervention team.

Estimated homeless population: 4,500 Patients served: 1,700

Willamette Family Treatment
605 West Fourth Avenue
Eugene, OR 97402
Contact: Bob Richards
Phone: (541) 343-6512
Fax: (541) 302-1717