Central City Concern

Since announcing our decision to close Letty Owings, CCC has received an outpouring of support, along with many questions about how to help keep Letty open. We are deeply grateful for the extraordinary care, concern, and love being shown for this cherished program and the women and families it has served. Unfortunately, CCC’s decision has not changed. The level of care women entering Letty need has grown beyond what we can safely provide and what these women and their children deserve. CCC remains committed to pregnant and parenting women with substance use disorders. We will keep advocating, partnering, and sharing lessons from decades of operating Letty to improve care across Oregon. Thank you to Kaylee Tornay at InvestigateWest for this in-depth and thoughtful article outlining the challenges faced by centers serving pregnant women with substance use disorders, including federal funding cuts, aging infrastructure and rising costs to provide care as increasingly potent drugs have made both mothers and babies sicker. Letty’s impact can’t be measured in numbers or years. It lives in the thousands of lives changed, the recoveries supported, the families that found hope, and countless moments of compassion. Use your voice and contact your Multnomah County, Clackamas County, Washington County and state elected officials and urge them to create and sustainably fund programs for women with children, especially those facing housing instability, behavioral health challenges, or other barriers. Read the article: https://bit.ly/4eZleu4

One of the most consequential elections for Portland’s future is just around the corner. I was incredibly honored to participate in Tuesday’s #Homeless Solutions Coalition Multnomah County Chair Candidate Forum, alongside two giants in our community: Dr. Andy Mendenhall M.D., President and CEO of Central City Concern, and Mindy Stadtlander, CEO of Health Share of Oregon. The panel was introduced by one of my political heroes, former Governor of Oregon, John Kitzhaber, M.D. who gave an inspirational and informative introduction to our discussion. #Homelessness, #addiction, and #mental_health remain among the most pressing challenges facing the City of Portland. The next County Chair will play a critical role in determining how we invest our resources, measure success, and, most importantly, improve outcomes for the people we serve. A sincere thank you to Shannon Singleton, MSW and Dr. Sharon Meieran for showing up, engaging in meaningful dialogue, and sharing their visions for moving our county forward. Unfortunately, the third candidate, Julia Brim-Edwards, declined to participate just two days before the event. While I respect that candidates have competing commitments, I believe showing up for conversations about our community’s greatest challenges matters. Voters deserve to hear directly from those seeking to lead. My hope is that regardless of who wins, we can move beyond political differences and focus on what truly matters: #collaboration, #accountability, measurable #outcomes, and restoring hope to those who need it most. I’m grateful to the Homeless Solutions Coalition for bringing this important conversation to our community. A big shout out to Blair B. at KGW-TV for moderating our event! Her professionalism and passion for our city is inspirational! 🎥 Here is the full recording of the forum. I encourage everyone to watch, listen, and make an informed decision on November 3. ▶️ https://lnkd.in/gsvnw_-2 If you’re interested in just my remarks, they begin at approximately the 28-minute mark. #MultnomahCounty #Portland #Homelessness #AddictionRecovery #MentalHealth #BehavioralHealth #CommunityLeadership #CityTeamPortland #Collaboration #Accountability

The solution for service and housing providers is clear. We need one connected system for the most ill and vulnerable folks in our community, not two separate ones. (Sponsored Content by Central City Concern)

It is with our best wishes that CCC announces that Peter Beyer, our beloved Chief Financial Officer, will be leaving CCC at the end of October to pursue a new and exciting opportunity. Our message is filled with a mixture of deep gratitude for Peter's tireless and dedicated service and a dose of sadness for CCC and Peter's teams. Ultimately, we are excited for Peter, his family, and his future employer as he steps into a new important role, leveraging his expertise in affordable housing finance, operations, and development. During his five-year tenure at CCC Peter has brought vision, structure and order to our finance and accounting practices. Peter has built and maintained an exceptional and skilled finance team who have their minds and hearts focused on supporting CCC operations and assuring sustainability of our organization. Peter's leadership has resulted in successful navigation of many key opportunities including landing multiple, positive Medicaid wrap-rate adjustments and several real-estate transactions. Peter's scope of leadership has also included holding our affordable housing and housing development divisions within our organization. He has also led fiscal response planning, which has informed difficult decisions to assure organizational sustainability. We are so grateful for Peter's commitment and service to our mission and our community. We wish him the best in his next venture! Thank you, Peter!

When the gap between what people earn and what housing costs keeps growing, more people become one emergency away from not being able to afford their housing. Reducing homelessness also looks like preventing people from losing their housing in the first place. Different situations call for different kinds of help: short-term rent assistance after lost work hours, legal help or mediation when facing an eviction, or ongoing rental assistance when income can't keep up. Prevention is easy to overlook because success often looks like someone simply staying in their home. Since 2021, Supportive Housing Services funding has helped more than 22,000 people across the Metro region avoid homelessness through prevention services. Our community is better when our neighbors are stably housed. Sustaining these investments helps ensure people can continue to get help before losing their housing. #endhomelessness #OregonHousingNarrative #HousingOregon #OregonHousing #RealProgress #AffordableHousing

When Central City Concern first joined our Fleet Electrification Accelerator, they knew they wanted to transition their fleet, but weren’t sure where to start. Over the past three years, they’ve put in the work to become one of Portland’s fleet electrification leaders, with: 💡10% of their fleet electrified 💡26 charging stations 💡Bottom-line savings over $1,000 every month in fuel and electricity The best part? They're just getting started. Learn more about Central City Concern’s journey towards electrification today:  https://lnkd.in/gV5pfHnF

Hey Everyone - It's Ankrom Moisan JAM time again!!! Don't miss out! Last year was sooo much fun - lets make it bigger and better this year!!! There will be 3 rockin' live bands filled with your favorite Ankrom Moisan-ites. THere will be Dolly Parton Costumes. It will be awesome. Hope to see you there. Click the link to buy tickets or table sponsorships. https://lnkd.in/gkeBaCjX Ankrom Moisan Central City Concern

In observance of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, on Monday, October 12, all programs and clinic sites will be closed, except for Hooper. Hooper will be open normal hours. All normal hours will resume Tuesday, October 13. #indigenouspeoplesday #endhomelessness #centralcityconcern #pdx

Join us in supporting CCC President and CEO Andy Mendenhall M.D. at the Multnomah County Chair Candidate Forum on Solutions to Unsheltered Homelessness on October 21! The expert panel will be discussing the current homelessness climate in Multnomah County and then we'll hear from candidates for Multnomah County Chair respond to questions on how they'd tackle homelessness if elected. This FREE event comes at a critical time as the November 3 ballot approaches. We hope to see many of you there! More information in the post below!

CCC is committed to a healthy and climate-safe future for all clients and staff. Were thrilled to share that were ahead of schedule on our goal to electrify our fleet, and it would not have been possible without the incredible support of our partners and funders at the Breaking Barriers Collaborative, the Portland Clean Energy Fund (through the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability), and Pacific Power. We couldn't be more proud of this accomplishment and are deeply grateful for the partnership and support that made it possible. Thank you! Learn more about these accomplishments in the post below!