Multnomah County Resources

Addus is a nationwide in-home care service provdier for seniors and people with disabilities.

Since 1907, Albertina Kerr has strengthened Oregon families and communities. Today, we provide programs and services to children and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health challenges, empowering them to live richer lives.

The Autism Society of Oregon is Oregon leading organization providing resources, education, advocacy and support for individuals and families living with autism.

Impact NW is a premier provider of educational and social services in the greater Portland metro area. Our mission is to help people prosper through a community of support. The Brentwood-Darlington Community Center offers early childhood, youth, and family services.

If this is your time, Cascadia is here. Our services include comprehensive assessment and treatment planning, individual and group counseling, case management, skills training, consultation, supported employment, supported education and medication management. Evidence-based, multi-disciplinary treatment for people of all ages with mental health, addiction, and dual-diagnosis issues.

If this is your time, Cascadia is here. Our services include comprehensive assessment and treatment planning, individual and group counseling, case management, skills training, consultation, supported employment, supported education and medication management. Evidence-based, multi-disciplinary treatment for people of all ages with mental health, addiction, and dual-diagnosis issues.

Cascadia services span from prevention to healthy lifestyle education to intensive treatment when needed. Our range of services encompass a more systemic approach to health management for adults, children, seniors and families. Clients can get primary care and behavioral health care needs through one team, at one location.

CDRC staff specializes in diagnosis, assessment, and intervention related to disorders affecting development. Depending on the child, our services range from a single discipline consultation to a full team evaluation.

Community Access Services is a private nonprofit organization that provides residential, community, and employment services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who live and work in our community. Serving Oregonians for more than 28 years, Community Access Services is a trusted service provider dedicated to the advocacy of individuals living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

CAT is a membership organization for tenants, by tenants. Low-income tenants predominantly low-wage workers, families with children, people living with disabilities, seniors, and people of color. CAT provides education on tenants rights and evictions counseling.

Assisting people with disabilities to live empowered, self-determined lives through community connections.

Community Vision'smisson is to make Oregon a place where all people experiencing disability can live, work, and thrive in whatever community they choose.

CCP provides services for individuals with disabilities who have language and/or literacy barriers. Services include workshops for job application completion, mock interviews, resume building, English classes, computer classes and help to find and retain employment.

CCP provides services for individuals with disabilities who have language and/or literacy barriers. Services include workshops for job application completion, mock interviews, resume building, English classes, computer classes and help to find and retain employment.

Impact NW is a premier provider of educational and social services in the greater Portland metro area. Our mission is to help people prosper through a community of support. Run by Impact NW, this center offers housing and safety net services.

We assist with legal problems directly related to disabilities. We do this in a variety of ways, which include:
Providing information, tools and referrals that empower self-advocacy
Promoting awareness of civil rights
Investigating and addressing reports of abuse and/or neglect
Pursuing policy changes and legislation that benefit people with disabilities
Representing individuals in cases where legal expertise is needed
Litigation when necessary

Senior Community Employment Program (SCSEP) is for low income seniors who seek employment, training assistance, and social engagement providing participants with training opportunities to update their skills.

Elwood Staffing is a privatley owned company that specializes in connecting job-seekers with potential employers.

Express Employment Professionals is privately owned coproration who specializing is connecting job-seekers with potential employers.

Express Employment Professionals is privately owned coproration who specializing is connecting job-seekers with potential employers.

FACT empowers Oregon families experiencing disability in their pursuit of a whole life by expanding awareness, growing community, and equipping families.

Fair Housing Council of Oregon (FHCO) promotes equal access to housing by providing education, outreach, technical assistance, and enforcement opportunities specifically related to federal, state, and local fair housing laws.

Our Portland chapter is dedicated to providing a supportive atmosphere for you to meet other hard of hearing people and learn about issues related to hearing loss. During the school year, we have monthly chapter meetings open to anyone interested in hearing loss. We are one of many local chapters of the Hearing Loss Association of America, HLAA.​

As the largest provider of affordable housing in Oregon, Home Forward offers a variety of housing options to low-income individuals and families: more than 6,000 apartments to rent, including approximately1,980 units of public housing, and approximately 9,390 Section 8 rent assistance vouchers. Our housing is available to individuals, families, people with disabilities or special needs and seniors who meet each program's income guidelines. Home Forward is a public corporation serving all of Multnomah County, including the cities of Gresham, Fairview, Portland, and Troutdale, and other East County communities.

HVRP provides services that assist veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Our program helps them reintegrate into their communities and find meaningful employment. We provide veterans with the tools they need to gain new skill sets such as financial literacy, computer training, job search training, and interview guidance. Veterans learn skills to retain employment and become financially independent. Helped funded by the U.S. Department of Labor.

Inclusion Inc. has as its mission: Offering people resources and education to direct their lives. The first of its core values is self determination: We honor our customers individual rights to assume risk and to achieve their personal goals, through education, communication and choice. Each customer is eligible for a unique types and amounts of services based on their needs as identified in the adult needs assessment (ANA) tool. Personal Agents meet with customers and their chosen support team to complete the ANA and determine their support needs.

Independence Northwest is a full service brokerage that provides case managment for individuals with developmental disabilities in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington counties.

To promote the philosophy of Independent Living by creating opportunities, encouraging choicesm advancing equal access, and furthering the level of independence for all people with disabilities.

Laundry Love is a neighboring movement that partners with groups, schools and local laundromats to wash the clothes and bedding of low-income and/or no-income families and individuals.

Laundry Love is a neighboring movement that partners with groups, schools and local laundromats to wash the clothes and bedding of low-income and/or no-income families and individuals.

Laundry Love is a neighboring movement that partners with groups, schools and local laundromats to wash the clothes and bedding of low-income and/or no-income families and individuals.

Serving the Portland metro area, LifeWorks NW promotes a healthy community by providing quality and culturally-responsive mental health and addiction services across the lifespan.

Serving the Portland metro area, LifeWorks NW promotes a healthy community by providing quality and culturally-responsive mental health and addiction services across the lifespan.

Serving the Portland metro area, LifeWorks NW promotes a healthy community by providing quality and culturally-responsive mental health and addiction services across the lifespan.

Serving the Portland metro area, LifeWorks NW promotes a healthy community by providing quality and culturally-responsive mental health and addiction services across the lifespan.

Serving the Portland metro area, LifeWorks NW promotes a healthy community by providing quality and culturally-responsive mental health and addiction services across the lifespan.

MENTOR Oregon services and supports are focused on helping adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injury and mental health challenges build increasingly rich, independent lives. We also support children who have complex emotional and behavioral challenges, helping them heal, learn and grow with the support of dedicated caregivers.

MENTOR Oregon services and supports are focused on helping adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injury and mental health challenges build increasingly rich, independent lives. We also support children who have complex emotional and behavioral challenges, helping them heal, learn and grow with the support of dedicated caregivers.

Multnomah County is a case management agency that hires Service Coordinators to provide individually focused care coordination and planning to children and adults with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities. Our goal is to increase overall quality of life, promote independence, and integration by providing resources and service in the family home and community for individuals we serve.

NAMI Multnomah mission is to improve the quality of life for people living with mental illness and their families through support, education and advocacy.

NAMI provides support to families and individuals with mental illnesses.

New Avenues for Youth is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention and intervention of youth homelessness. Since 1997, our programs and services have impacted more than 20,000 young people as they work to overcome barriers, pursue their goals, and realize their potential. From supporting basic needs like meals and counseling to providing opportunities for education, job training, employment, and housing, we meet youth where they areand help them get where they want to go.

NWDSA has been a parent-driven family support network since 1997. NWDSA mission is to create and nurture a loving and inclusive community celebrating every person with a disability including Down syndrome.

NWDSA will accomplish this mission by empowering and supporting families and individuals who have been touched by developmental disability. Together with our cross-disability sister project, All Born (In), founded in 2006, we will work to increase education, promote public understanding and acceptance, work toward full inclusion, and defend the civil rights of individuals with Down syndrome. Our vision also embraces professionals and the cross-disability community. Our statement of values is the core of our organization and the basis for how we make decisions to support our mission.

We believe that relationships are the cornerstones of our organization and that they should be both honored and nurtured.

Options Counseling and Family provides family preservation, behavioral health services and other family supports to families and individuals in 11 Oregon counties. Options providers use a family centered approach, in which the family knowledge of their own strengths and needs is the primary resource.

The Autism Society of Oregon is Oregon leading organization providing resources, education, advocacy and support for individuals and families living with autism.

OCDC has many programs, and they work together to help young children and their families grow, learn, and succeed. Many of the services support migrant and seasonal farm workers and their young children. Other programs are open to families living at or below the federal poverty level. The child care and early education programs serve infants through five year olds, and our parent programs are open to all parents that have children enrolled in programs.

The Commission for the Blind has the following program objectives in service to our mission: Helping Oregonians who are blind get and keep jobs that allow them to support themselves and their families, supporting Oregon businesses in hiring and retaining qualified job seekers who are blind in their workforce, supporting youth who are blind in the transition from high school into a career path/employment, training Oregonians in the alternative skills related to blindness such as adaptive technology, white cane travel, braille and activities of daily living, helping seniors and individuals with vision loss who are unable to work live with the highest levels of independence and self-sufficiency so that they can remain independent in their homes and active in their communities, licensing and supporting business owners who operate food service and vending operations in public buildings and facilities throughout the state;

Developmental Disabilities Councils consist of volunteers appointed by governors, over half of whom must be people with developmental disabilities or their family members. They engage in systemic change, capacity building, and advocacy activities that:
Educate the public;
Develop and support coalitions;
Inform federal, state, and local policy makers;
Demonstrate new approaches to services, supports, and other assistance;
Outreach to those who might not come to the attention of the Council;
Assist neighborhoods and communities to respond positively to individuals with DD and their families;
Foster interagency collaboration and coordination, including related Councils, committees, and programs;
Eliminate barriers and enhance citizen participation.

Oregon Food Bank headquarters in NE Portland also houses Oregon Food Bank Metro Services regional food bank servicing Clackamas and Multnomah counties.

For more than 50 years, weve provided a safe, supportive, and inclusive place for health care, along with services to help the underserved and people experiencing homelessness achieve independence.

Planned Parenthood is a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide.

Planned Parenthood is a trusted health care provider, an informed educator, a passionate advocate, and a global partner helping similar organizations around the world. Planned Parenthood delivers vital reproductive health care, sex education, and information to millions of people worldwide.

Vet Centers are community-based counseling centers that provide a wide range of social and psychological services, including professional readjustment counseling to eligible Veterans, active duty service members, including National Guard and Reserve components, and their families.

Ride Connection is a private, non-profit organization based in Portland, Oregon. We offer ways for people to access the goods and services they need to survive and thrive.

In-home care for seniors.

RISE provides services for people with disabilities including residential settings, day programs, employment assistance, managed care, and home and community based services. RISE also provides services for children and families through foster care and professional parenting, adoption, kinship care, after school and summer programs, behavior supports, and mental health services. In addition, RISE provides Early Intervention services which includes Occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, Physical Therapy and Developmental Specialists.

Impact NW is a premier provider of educational and social services in the greater Portland metro area. Our mission is to help people prosper through a community of support. Services include advocacy and case management services, transportation, activities and health promotion.

Social Security pays disability benefits to people who can't work because they have a medical condition that's expected to last at least one year or result in death. Find out if you qualify and how Social Security can help you.

Social Security pays disability benefits to people who can't work because they have a medical condition that's expected to last at least one year or result in death. Find out if you qualify and how Social Security can help you.

Swindells Resource Center of Providence Child Center supports parents and caregivers of children who have special needs, developmental delays or disabilities. They provide resources, information and education to communities throughout Oregon and southwest Washington.

The Arc mission is to advocate to enhance the dignity, expand the opportunities, and protect the rights of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

DHS Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) assists individuals with disabilities to get and keep a job that matches their skills, interests and abilities. VR staff work in partnership with the community and businesses to provide services that are individualized to help each eligible person receive services that are essential to their employment success. Learn more about VR.

DHS Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) assists individuals with disabilities to get and keep a job that matches their skills, interests and abilities. VR staff work in partnership with the community and businesses to provide services that are individualized to help each eligible person receive services that are essential to their employment success. Learn more about VR.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides federal grants to states for supplemental foods, health care referrals, and nutrition education for low-income pregnant, breastfeeding, and non-breastfeeding postpartum women, and to infants and children up to age five who are found to be at nutritional risk.