Multnomah County’s new peer-led Behavioral Health Resource Center offers community and support for people struggling with houselessness, addiction and mental health.
Multnomah County’s new peer-led Behavioral Health Resource Center offers community and support for people struggling with houselessness, addiction and mental health.
San Juana is a case worker with Bienestar in Washington County. In addition to helping program participants find housing, she also supports them in many other areas of their life. Her work is part of the Regional Long-term Rent Assistance (RLRA) program, which is paid for by Metro’s supportive housing services fund.
After a brief but potentially life-threatening experience with unsheltered homelessness, Clackamas County resident Kathy is safe and secure in a permanent home. She is receiving case management from Northwest Family Services and is a participant in the Regional Longterm Rent Assistance program, which is paid for by Metro's supportive housing services fund. She is one of 247 people who have been housed in Clackamas County through this program since it launched in June 2021.
Annual reports for the fund’s first year were submitted to Metro staff by the counties in early November. Collectively, they show promising returns from an initial focus on expanding program capacity in the early months. As a result of this work, in the fourth quarter of Metro’s supportive housing services fund all three counties roughly doubled the number of people they housed in the first three quarters.
Michael Davis is a housing case manager for the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization in Washington County. He not only connects people with housing and rent assistance, he helps them with many other aspects of their life.
Steve experienced seven years of homelessness, living mostly in a field by himself. Then in one month, everything changed. Steve decided he wanted to be a father again to his adult son and needed to get into housing and repair his life. Today he's living happily in an apartment in Forest Grove, with help from a rent assistance voucher and case management paid for by Metro's supportive housing services fund.