Resources for those in need:

Visit Oregonhelps and easily find out what benefits you may be eligible for including Food Stamps, Federal Housing Assistance and the Oregon Health Plan!

• Kaleidoscope Program — A new, innovative housing and services program for families with children who have a family member living with HIV or a family member with a history of drug abuse. The program offers housing subsidies in combination with treatment and education-skills building classes. Call (503) 223-5907 to learn more.
• Web tools trainings — Learn how to use many of the web-based resources on this page.
• The Beehive — Links to local resources like health clinics, career counseling and job placement, government and more.

• Family Finance Management (Oregon State University Extension Service) — Helping the unemployed with money problems.

• Oregon Safenet — Linking low income Oregon residents with health care services (including immunizations)

• Oregon Pathways — Directory of Community Resources

• Benefits CheckUP — A free, easy-to-use service that identifies federal and state assistance programs for older Americans.

• Center for Law & Social Policy — Non profit with expertise in law and policy affecting the poor.

• Child Welfare League of America — Nation's oldest and largest nonprofit protecting the interests of children and families.

• Urban Institute — Nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization.

• PhRMA.org — Working to ensure that low-income people can get the medicine they need.
  
• Oregon State University's Healthy Recipes -- Eating Well for Less

Information for professionals and advocates:

• One Economy Corporation — a nonprofit organization working to leverage technology to help low-income people raise their standard of living.

• Portland Housing Authority — The Portland Housing Authority's mission is to provide decent, safe, and sanitary housing for low-income citizens of the greater Portland area.

• Children First for Oregon — Includes County Data Book 2001- Oregon's Families: Stability and Quality of Life.

• Oregon State University Extension Service — Family & Community Development

• Anne E. Casey Foundation — Working to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families.

• Institute on Race & Poverty — Sharing information on issues affecting those facing the combined challenges of race and poverty.

• National Center for Children in Poverty — Identifying and promoting strategies that prevent child poverty.

• Children's Defense Fund — Working to ensure every child gets a head start.

• Child Poverty Report — Reducing Child Poverty Benchmark Analysis for Multnomah County. Prepared by the Multnomah County Department of Support Services, April, 1999.

• Multnomah County Demographics 2000: Our County Our Children — September 2001, demographic profile of the citizens of Multnomah County with a special emphasis on children (uses Census 2000 data)

• Coming Together for Children: An inventory of resources and needs for young children and families provided or funded by Multnomah County

• Center on Budget & Policy Priorities — Nonprofit research and policy organization focusing on issues affecting low and moderate income families.