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  1. 2017 Point-In-Time: Count of Homelessness in Portland/Gresham/Multnomah County, Oregon

    The 2017 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count of Homelessness provides a snapshot of people who were experiencing homelessness on the night of Wednesday, February 22, 2017, in Portland, Gresham, and Multnomah County,...

  2. Strengthening Small Business Clusters Serving Minority Communities

    The existence of thriving and numerous small businesses is instrumental to generating wealth within a community. They provide a diverse employment base for local residents, leading to greater economic...

  3. Action Plan for an Age-Friendly Portland

    The goal of this Action Plan is to enhance Portland, Oregon’s age friendliness. As defined by the World Health Organization (WHO), an "age friendly" city: has structures and services that are accessible and...

  4. F.I.S.H. (Finding Information about Safety and Health)

    People with cell phones often take it for granted how much knowledge is at their fingertips. Many people without cell phones don’t have easy instant access to the information that others do, leaving them in...

  5. The Case for Age-Friendly Communities

    The report was funded by Grantmakers In Aging, an organization dedicated to promoting and strengthening grantmaking for an aging society. The movement toward age-friendly communities is growing, with the key...

  6. Manufactured Home Parks: NORCs Awaiting Discovery

    This paper examines manufactured home parks as a type of naturally occurring retirement community and considers the potential for adding social service programs (NORC-SSP) to enable further aging in place. An...

  7. Faces of a Growing Community: A Profile of the Hispanic Population of Hillsboro, Oregon

    Shortly after World War II, Mexican immigrants began moving to the Hillsboro area to take jobs as farm workers. Since 1980, the Hispanic population ofHillsboro has quintupled, and now exceeds 10% ofthe total....

  8. Rethinking Autism, Communication, and Community Involvement: Exploring Involvement in Online Communities, Communication...

    Autistic individuals experience marginalization and stigmatization, and are often not connected to mainstream services or organizations fostering peer relationships (Boundy, 2008; Jaarsma & Welin, 2012;...

  9. Collaboration Strategies in Non-Traditional CBPR Partnerships: Lessons from an Academic-Community Partnership with Autistic...

    Background: Most community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects involve local communities defined by race, ethnicity, geography, or occupation. Autistic self-advocates, a geographically dispersed...

  10. The Great Good Bicycle Shop: Exploring the Community Roles of a Neighborhood Business

    The local bicycle shop (LBS) has long served its neighborhood as a retail establishment and service center, but little has been done to analyze its influence on the greater community. After examining the...

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