Youth and Family Outreach

An early care and education facility for children ages six weeks to five years of age. The priority families are low-income and teen parents who are in school, job training or employed. There is a public pre-k classroom in collaboration with the portland public school system. The program offers scholarship assistance with funding from the city of portland to help teen parents who cannot otherwise obtain funding. Three meals are served per day. All food is prepared from scratch, using whole ingredients that are purchased locally and delivered from farmers. The program offers a social work intern to work with families in navigating the dhhs and other systems as necessary.