Vulnerable Families
& Individuals

In partnership with the Department of Human Services, Every Child PDX connects caring community members with vulnerable children & families impacted by foster care through storytelling, empowering volunteers, raising up new resource parents & supporting foster families. Opportunities: Become Resource Parents, Join The Neighborhood, Support My NeighbOR, Curate and Deliver Welcome, Flash & Launch Boxes, Serve the ODHS Staff through Appreciation & Service Projects, Foster Parents Night Out (FPNO).

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids*

Safe Families supports vulnerable, isolated children and families. Working upstream from foster care, Safe Families creates extended family-like relationships—including a safe home for children to live in temporarily—that give parents space to get their lives back on track until they are in a better place to care for their children again. This network of relationships keeps children from entering the foster care system and, ultimately, helps keep families together. Opportunities: Become a Host Family, Become a Coach or Mentor, Community Groups can create a Circle of Support.

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids*

With Love provides resources that nurture dignity, hope and community for children ages 0-6 impacted by foster care. They focus on tangible goods, community events, and classes to equip and support foster parents. Opportunities: Volunteer to wash, inspect, sort, curate + deliver bags of clothing and supplies for resource families, Contribute to the Holiday Stocking Supply Drive*.

Availability: Small Groups, Individuals, Kids*

Shepherd’s Door, a part of the Portland Rescue Mission, seeks to help women and children find healing through addiction recovery, vocational training, spiritual encouragement, and transitional support in a safe, retreat like setting for one year. This vital work dignifies women who have experienced unimaginable hardship and empowers them to live a new story.

The Family Room seeks to reunite families and strengthen communities. They provide homelike visitation spaces within the community to increase the quality of supervised family visits to increase the likelihood that children living in foster care can successfully be reunited with their birth parents. Opportunities: Volunteer at a Visitation Location, Provide a Monthly Meal for a Family during their Visitation.

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids*

Find a local soup kitchen (e.g. First Baptist Church, Liberation Street Church, etc.) and commit to serving monthly with the goal of building relationships with those to whom you’re serving meals.

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, Kids

Within your own circle, identify an individual or family who could use some extra love and support in this season. This can include things like tangible needs that you or your Community can meet (e.g. clothing, food, toys, yard care, home maintenance, dog walking, childcare, etc.) and building relationship by sharing life together.

Availability: Community Groups, Small Groups, Individuals, Kids

Refugee Care Collective comes alongside refugees as they rebuild their lives in Oregon through identifying gaps in care and connecting community members to those needs, through a collective, coordinated effort. Opportunities: Become a Family or Youth Mentor, Provide Emergency Relief Support, Curate and Distribute Restart Kits*

Availability: Small Groups, Individuals, & Kids*