Food

• SNAP (through USDA, Oregon DHS/Self-Sufficiency)
• WIC (Women, infants and children)
• Food banks/pantries (Neighbor to Neighbor, Salvation Army ….through Community Connection  … Haven from Hunger)
• Free and reduced fare school lunches
• Friday backpack program (kids bring home backpack of food)
• Meals on Wheels (through Community Connection)

Housing

• Northeast Oregon Housing Authority (local resource, includes HUD/Section 8)
• Seasonal warming station
• Community Connection provides emergency assistance
• Habitat for Humanity
• Hotels/motels with weekly/monthly rates (how is it poor people pay the most for housing?)

Health/health care

• Medicaid (means-tested)
• Medicare (elderly)
• NEON (Northeast Oregon Network–connecting providers and helping train community health workers to better serve especially those in need)
• In schools–student-based health centers

Elderly

• DHS–Seniors and people with disabilities (APD)
• Community Connection–Senior Center (includes daily meals, served and delivered [Meals on Wheels])
• Various facilities, skilled nursing/assisted living, etc., including Wildflower Lodge, Evergreen, Grande Ronde Retirement Center)
• Hospice (end of life) care:
  • Grande Ronde Home Health and Hospice–not specifically for the elderly
  • Heart n’ Home Hospice
• Medicare

Children

• Head Start (pre-school and programs for economically disadvantaged children and their families)
• Grande Ronde Child Center (psychiatric day treatment for 5-12 yr olds with mental health diagnoses, to help them adjust and return to a regular classroom setting)
• Kids Club (coordinated by Community Connection)–after school care
• Oregon DHS/Child Welfare/Child Protection
• CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocates)–volunteers doing court-mandated investigations of child abuse/assault allegations
• Mt. Emily Safe Center (forensic investigation of cases alleging child sexual assault)
• ESD–special education
• Youth-in-transition program (homeless liaison, various services to students in distress)
• Alternative education (in school districts)
• wraparound care (working with families of students, called CARE coordinators here)
• student-based health centers, counselors

Mental Health

• Addiction and counseling
  • Grande Ronde Recovery
  • Center for Human Development (provides a variety of mental health services to different populations)

People with disabilities

• ESD (Intermountain Education Service District)
• New Day Enterprises
• RISE, Inc.
• Center for Human Development (case workers)
• Oregon DHS–Seniors and People with Disabilities

Public safety

• Law enforcement:
  • City police
  • County (sheriff)
  • Oregon State Police
  • Corrections (jail, parole and probation, Powder River Facility)
  • Youth (juvenile justice, Oregon Youth Authority, RiverBend Facility)
  • Teen/Drug Courts
• Other
  • Domestic violence shelter (Shelter from the Storm)
  • Mt. Emily Safe Center (forensics, child sexual assault)
  • Victims Assistance programs (through District Attorney’s Office)
  • Sex offender therapy

Various

• Oregon DHS/Self-Sufficiency (various forms of assistance, including Medicaid, SNAP, TANF)
• Community Connection (Community Action Agency, coordinates food banks, offers programs for the elderly including lunch and meals, provides assistance with heating bills, operates transit lines, etc.)
• NE Oregon Transit (through Community Connection), runs a fixed-term route in town (EOU students ride free), pick-ups for elderly for health care needs
• Child Care Resource and Referral
• Training and Employment Consortium (vo-tech, training opportunities, often conduits for funding to attend school)
• Salvation Army (food bank)
• Many churches in town provide a variety of services beyond their own congregations
• Veterans Administration (through Center for Human Development, and there is an outpatient clinic)
• Social Security Administration (SSI, Social Security)
• DHS, Self-sufficiency (a variety of means-tested services clients are referred to, chief among them TANF and OHP)