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CCC executive director after ex-employee’s ID theft: “We should have done more”

April 29, 2014
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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 […]

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Bing Sheldon, CCC founding board member, named Portland First Citizen

April 25, 2014
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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. […]

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Central City Concern staff member receives Lifetime Achievement Award

January 23, 2014
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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 […]

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Affordable Care Act is a ‘game changer’ to reshape addiction rehab

September 23, 2013
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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 […]

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CCOs address clients’ need for mental health, substance abuse treatment

November 9, 2012
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By Christen McCurdy, The Lund Report, Nov. 8, 2012 There’s a very high preponderance of people on the Oregon Health Plan who have a mental health or substance abuse problem, according to Mary Monnat, president and CEO of LifeWorks NW. In the Portland metropolitan area, such problems affect 70 percent of that population. Now that […]

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Health Care Reform Bills Omit Sociological, Psychological Services

March 7, 2012
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By Amanda Waldroupe, for Street Roots, March 6, 2012 A patient’s housing and sociological condition can have a direct affect on his or her health care, but a bill in Salem to incorporate those providers into the new health care reform failed to make the books. As a result, the legislature has left unanswered a […]

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Central City Concern Letty Owings Center

November 20, 2011
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By Crane-Station of Fire Dog Lake, November 20, 2011 Note: Letty Owings is my mother. She is not only larger in life to me. She has been a mother and teacher to many. Letty grew up in poverty, on a farm in Missouri. At age 12, she left home to pursue her education. She is […]

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In downtown Portland, Community Engagement Program seeks out the homeless mentally ill

June 17, 2011
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From The Oregonian, June 16, 2011 As Carly Laney takes a seat in the basement meeting room, the regular morning review at the Community Engagement Program sounds like a Thanksgiving dinner when everyone present is talking about everyone who is absent, and the news is not encouraging. “He is back in the hospital, under restraint.” […]

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Homeless help not so simple

June 1, 2011
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Guest Column by Ed Blackburn, published in the Portland Tribune, May 26, 2011. Blackburn is executive director of Central City Concern in Old Town. City’s ‘housing first’ policy demonstrates its value as a big step toward a new life for homeless Peter Korn raises important policy issues regarding public investments in housing for homeless people […]

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Homeless and addicted: On the street or off?

May 16, 2011
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From The Portland Tribune, May 10, 2011 Housing First policy opens doors to alcoholics and drug users Jason Renaud was trying to help a longtime street addict who said he was finally willing to do what it takes to stop being homeless. For the first time in 20 years, the man sobered up and secured […]

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