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Coming Soon: Program for Homeless Women!
This March we’re launching Connect, our new program to help homeless women transition off the streets of Portland. Connect will provide space and programming for up to 16 women to get the help they...
View ArticleMondays at the Mission: Ep 9 – Connect Opens Next Week!
We’re now less than one week away from launching Connect, a brand new program to help homeless women get off the streets of Portland and into housing and jobs. Watch Executive Director Eric Bauer...
View ArticleMondays at the Mission: Ep 10 – Connect Opens TODAY!
Connect opens today! For the first time in 65 years, we’re able to offer a program to help homeless women transition from life on the streets into independent housing and employment. Watch Connect...
View ArticleMondays at the Mission: Ep 13 – Amy Helps Homeless Women
Not long ago, Amy was hopeless, trapped in a drug addiction and spiraling downward. She’d lost her job and her relationships were falling apart. When she woke up in a hospital bed after overdosing on...
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An Easter Surprise
A guest post by Judy Turley, Connect program manager Six weeks ago we opened the new Connect program to help women transition from homelessness to housing and employment. The facility holds 16 women...
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Homeless Men & Women Beautify The Streets of Portland
The men and women in our Link and Connect program teamed up last weekend to clean the streets of Old Town in downtown Portland! Our own staff and volunteers, along with a volunteer group from Redmond...
View ArticleMondays at the Mission: Ep 34 – Tiffany Helps Homeless Women
Tiffany came to Portland Rescue Mission just over a year ago: broken, addicted, homeless. With just a sliver of hope left, she entered our New Life Ministry addictions recovery program at Shepherd’s...
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Portland Rescue Mission expands community outreach at Burnside Shelter
Men in the Link program chat before lunch. At the Burnside Shelter, there’s never a dull moment. While it’s often bustling with guests eating warm meals, grabbing a safe night’s sleep, or taking their...
View ArticleDo something meaningful, work for Portland Rescue Mission
Are you looking for a new opportunity to do something that truly matters? Do you desire to play a vital role in helping end homelessness, hunger and addiction right here in the Portland community? If...
View ArticleEchoes of hope at Connect, Shepherd’s Door
When it comes to safe places for women and children who are homeless, options are limited. The streets of Portland can be dangerous. But amidst the unrelenting stress and insecurity that comes with...
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The Harbor’s location a catalyst for recovery at Portland Rescue Mission
Harbor men chop wood in the rain to provide fire wood for families in need. At only 8.3 miles apart, or about 13 minutes driving without traffic, the distance between our Burnside Shelter in downtown...
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Portland Rescue Mission, The Oregonian discuss ‘homeless crisis’
In case you missed it, our Public Relations Specialist Alexa Mason recently sat down with The Oregonian’s Anna Griffin to talk about Portland’s homeless crisis, an eight-week series the newspaper is...
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Connect helps Robin get her faith back at our Burnside Shelter
Robin from Connect at the Burnside Shelter (Thomas Boyd, The Oregonian) Our Connect program for women at the Burnside Shelter hasn’t been around long (it started in 2014), but dozens of women’s lives...
View Article‘Wow’ moments at Portland Rescue Mission (and current job openings)
When you work at an organization like Portland Rescue Mission, “wow” moments are regularly sprinkled throughout the work week. In a place where lives are being transformed regularly, our staff has the...
View ArticleBe the change, work for Portland Rescue Mission (job openings)
Have you been thinking about a job change recently? Are you a student looking an internship? If so, opportunities abound here at Portland Rescue Mission. We are actively searching for passionate people...
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Connect at Burnside Shelter in need of larger clothes
Clothing closet for Connect down at the Burnside Shelter. Clean clothing can be hard to come by for a homeless man or woman. The loss of dignity hurts, but the lack of clothing also makes it that much...
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Connect men give back to community, clean up Old Town Chinatown
While Portland Rescue Mission is in the “business” of giving hope and restoring life, a common theme of the people we serve is giving back. And for the 36 men currently participating in Connect at the...
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Burnside Shelter improvements underway, including wheelchair ramp
If there is one thing that is abundantly clear at the Burnside Shelter, it is this: we strive to help people who are hurting by meeting them at their point of need. It’s the ethos of Hope Ministries....
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Homeless women known at Burnside Shelter’s ‘Friday Flicks’
“Friday Flicks” at the Guest Care Center At Portland Rescue Mission, our Hope Ministries are about more than just meals, bathrooms and showers. Although all of those services are vital at the Burnside...
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In Service at Shepherd’s Door, Tiffany sees herself in Connect women
Women of Connect, from left: Deanne Gillock (Connect Women’s Program Manager), Gina, Nicole and Tiffany Our New Life Ministries are life changing. For the men and women who dedicate themselves to...
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