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Portland Business Journal, April 27, 2015 A few years ago, a Los Angeles Times reporter named Sam Quinones found himself in Huntington, West Virginia, trying to figure out how black tar heroin from Mexico got there. Turns out it originated in a tiny town in the state of Nayarit on the central-west coast of Mexico […]
Email from Ed Blackburn, Central City Concern, Oct. 6, 2014 Remembering the Whirlwind: Incarceration to Self-Sufficiency Last Friday, October 3rd, in Downtown Portland, the Clean & Safe District, managed by Portland Business Alliance, honored Kenny Cloughley as the 2014 Clean & Safe Cleaner of the Year. Jim Bare was announced as the Clean & Safe […]
KATU investigative reporter Randy Ripplinger dives into Portland’s “skid road” in 1982 for “Staying Alive.” Eventually organizations like Central City Concern and Northwest Pilot Project rebuilt, for the most part, single room housing in Portland’s downtown for those with mental illness and addiction. This five-part, weeklong series is incorporated into one sequence in the video […]
KOIN News, April 29, 2014 The executive director of Central City Concern (CCC) admitted Tuesday more could have been done to protect personal information that a former employee is now accused of stealing as part of a scheme to file fake tax returns. “I think we should have done more at that point,” said CCC […]
Central City Concern, April 25, 2014 Today, Bing Sheldon received one of Portland’s highest honors – Portland First Citizen, hosted by the Portland Metro Area Realtors Association. Bing was a founding board member of Central City Concern and served our agency from 1978 to 2013 – an unheard of 35 years on a nonprofit organization board. […]
From the Charlotte Observer, April 5, 2012 Eds. Note – Below is an excerpt from a longer national story about heroin. You can read the rest here. Before 9 o’clock every weekday morning, the secret to one of the most successful drug rehabilitation clinics in Portland, Ore., waits behind a locked door. Meet David Fitzgerald, […]
Shaheed Haamid is a soft-spoken man of faith who has worked in Central City Concern’s Community Engagement Program for nearly two years as our African-American Culturally Specific Case Manager in the Over Representation Program. The Over Representation Project seeks to assist African American individuals who are over represented in the country’s criminal justice system. On […]
By Christen McCurdy, Dartmouth Medicine magazine, Fall 2013 Richard* is in his 50s, has schizophrenia and a complex physical health history, and, earlier this year, he suffered a liver infection that nearly killed him. Weeks in the hospital left him weak, and he’s still recovering. He has come to the Old Town Clinic in downtown […]
From the Portland Tribune, September 18, 2013 It took Jerome Gilgan three stints in residential treatment before he started to get a handle on his drug addiction and his life of crime. Gilgan was one of the lucky ones. He returning twice to the Volunteers of America men’s center in Northeast Portland because he was […]
News release, Portland Police Bureau, May 22, 2013 The Portland Police Bureau’s Service Coordination Team (SCT) has scheduled a graduation for Thursday May 23, 2013, from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., in City Council Chambers at Portland’s City Hall. City Hall is located at 1220 Southwest 4th Avenue. Coffee and cake will be served immediately afterwards […]
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