Solicited Grants (2014-Current)

J Bar J Youth Services

The LOFT transitional shelter serves 25-30 runaways and youth experiencing homelessness annually, ages 16-24 from Central Oregon. The LOFT provides youth with services and support to transition into stable living situations.

The LOFT provides youth with emergency and transitional shelter, food, clothing, case management, counseling, independent living skills, employment assistance and referral services.  The LOFT will provide shelter for 25-30 youth for 3,000+ nights. Following residency 90% of formerly homeless clients will move on to stable living conditions.

Jackson Street Youth Services

This grant provides tools and important training for staff and volunteers so that they are better able to serve traumatized runaway, homeless, and at-risk youth.  An online training system will save valuable staff time to improve service, compliance and efficiency.

Janus Youth Programs

Harry’s Mother will initiate a two-pronged outreach and visibility campaign with materials designed to reach  grade, middle and high school youth, parents, school counselors, churches and businesses throughout Multnomah County, on the “traditional” services provided by Harry’s Mother, as well as information specifically tailored to sex trafficking for distribution to motels, truck stops, movie theaters, malls and other known high recruitment areas. As a youth development program, Harry’s Mother will gather input from youth through focus groups to ensure that the message and look of all materials “speaks” to youth. This will also lay the groundwork for Harry’s Mother staff to shape and develop a “youth council”; the members of which would personally deliver additional messaging throughout the community to youth, families, school counselors, faith groups and the community at large. Input from youth who have experienced sex trafficking will shape and design the message for all materials tailored to this issue.  Additional funds were included to meet the great and growing need for transportation for safety, school and appointments.

Janus Youth Programs, Inc.

Grant funds from Lamb Foundation will be used to implement the first Clark County sex trafficking services via education, outreach, case management. Fifteen youth will have case management, 200 youth contacted through outreach, 1,000 youth at risk of trafficking will receive information.

Josephy Center for Arts & Culture

Allows children participating in a free after-school program to have art education added. In addition, this grant provides a printing press and art materials to enrich art and culture programs that serve the county’s population, ages 4-70.

Juliette's House

Supports the Safe Kids (CAP) Program, an in-school child abuse prevention/intervention education for all Yamhill County public elementary school children in K-5.

Kinship House

This grant supported year one of program expansion to serve additional hard-to-place children involved with foster care or adoption.  The program provides intensive therapy with the goal of a permanent healthy reunified or adoptive family.  This grant will cover start-up costs involved with a healthy expansion, allowing the program to become sufficient and not overburden current operations.

LCSN, A Family Place Relief Nursery

This grant helps support the opening of a new classroom to serve children ages 12-24 months (“wobblers”) who are at high risk of abuse and neglect. The classroom and program will serve 6 children and their families with a therapeutic classroom for the children, parenting support, resources and home visits.

LEAP: Life Expanding Adventure Program

LEAP serves populations of individuals who are afflicted by health issues, emotional and psychological trauma, and social and economic adversity through empowering wilderness programs.

This grant supports youth transitioning out of homelessness through New Avenues for Youth to receive constant food, shelter, clothing, training and support for 5 days as they make a transformational wilderness whitewater kayak trip and receive follow-up support.

Lincoln County Child and Family Day Treatment dba Olalla Center

Start-up funds will help to prepare the first therapeutic classroom in the new Olalla Center Relief Nursery, estimated in the first year to impact an estimated 60 families in Lincoln Co. with young children at high risk of abuse and/or neglect due to multiple stressors.

We have moved forward from “Emerging Relief Nursery” status to “Provisional Relief Nursery”. The Replication process takes 2 to 3 Years to reach full “Mature status with a therapeutic classroom.  Preparing the classroom is the next step in this process.

Lutheran Community Services

A Family Gathering Place Relief Nursery will support sixteen families via a therapeutic classroom and respite model in Klamath County. Due to COVID19, serving all kids in family – in addition to the 0-5 age range of focus.

Marion-Polk Food Share

More than 78,000 low-income individuals (duplicated) each month will receive food assistance throughout Marion and Polk counties in order to thrive during these uncertain pandemic times.

Mary's Place Seattle

Comprehensive and developmentally appropriate children and teen programming including a full schedule of daily activities designed to support emotional, physical and educational well-being for 1200 homeless kids during the 2016-2017 fiscal year.

Mary's Place Seattle

We will support about 600 families experiencing homelessness in King County in our shelters. We propose to 1) develop synergy between homeless shelters to ensure all children are obtaining the same intensity of support, 2) provision each homeless shelter equally with educational equipment, and 3) provide support to parents to increase knowledge about their role in helping children be ready for school and what they can do in shelter to support school-readiness in their children.

Mary's Place Seattle

Mary’s Place will provide essential shelter and access to resources in King County, Washington for 4,400 families in 2023, including about 2,000 children.  By providing housing resources, health services, nutritious meals, and hope, we help families keep their homes or move into more stable situations. With a focus on youth and children, we offer wraparound support to help families experiencing homelessness by meeting their immediate basic needs for shelter, meals, and healthcare, while housing, youth, and stability specialists work with families to address barriers and connect to resources.