Community Outreach

Integrated housing: integrated housing is available year round, seven days a week, and is divided into three categories: emergency, temporary, and transitional shelter. The integrated housing program serves men, women, families, including veterans and young adults. While in housing, clients receive direct case management services, access to mental health and addiction treatment services, and life skills training. Case management is available to all clients in our shelter as well as those in the Community. Case managers use a client-centered, goal-oriented process that focuses on building a relationship of mutual trust and respect, and providing clients with a support system as they work to acheive long-term stability.

Medical and dental clinics: Community Outreach provides medical and dental visits to uninsured, under-insured, Oregon health plan recipients, veterans, and local farm workers in benton and linn counties. Our clinics provide access to primary care and acute outpatient medical and dental care, diabetes education, physical therapy, psychiatric and women's health services, lab and radiology tests, and prescription medications.

Therapeutic childcare center: mari's place is a state-certified childcare center serving children six weeks to five years old who have experienced early childhood trauma. Children who experience instability and homelessness are more likely to struggle to be emotionally, socially, and scholastically successful in school. Mari's place supports both parents and children by offering a stable, predictable, nurturing environment with a variety of age-appropriate activities. Class curriculum is designed to meet the unique needs of homeless or highly transient families and to assist families in their journey toward stability and the creation of a heathly family system. The center is "nature-based," with an emphasis on getting children outdoors and bringing nature indoors. The kids do arts and crafts projects using materials found in nature, the classrooms are decorated with neutral colors, and whenever possible, the furniture and toys are wooden, rather than plastic and metal furniture found in many preschools. This nature-based philosophy is calming and therapeutic, but, since many of our children don't have backyards of their own in, it's also just plain fun.

Behavioral health services: the behavioral health program offers outpatient mental health counseling, and outpatient alcohol and drug treatment. Services are focused on low-income, uninsured, and/or under-insured men and women.

Young adult care: the young adult care program serves individuals aged 18-24 to prevent homelessness early on in life. While in housing, clients receive direct case management services, asscess to mental health and addition treatment services, and life skills training.