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Outside the Frame to celebrate work of homeless filmmakers

“The Lost Boys of Portlandia" will premiere June 7 Jake Averi was 18 when he became homeless and on his own. He moved out of his foster home a month after aging out of the system and, despite his best efforts at getting and keeping his own apartment, ...

30 May 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Street Roots vendor profile: 'I wear my badge proudly'

Street Roots was a catalyst that helped get Shayne off the streets It has been a long road, but Shayne Methvin is creating a better life for himself. He was born at Emanuel Hospital in Portland, began reading around 3 years old and attended Chapman Elemen ...

21 Apr 2016 - Leonora Ko
Street Roots vendor profile: Helping herself so she can help others

Sophia says Street Roots has improved her life Sophia Xavier is learning to be responsible again. She was born in Yale, Mich., and learned about responsibility by mowing lawns for neighbors. “I started cutting grass when I was about 13 years old,” Sophia ...

11 Apr 2016 - Leonora Ko
Vendor profile: Louis Adams

Louis Adams has moved into Bud Clark Commons after medical issues pushed him to top of waiting list Louis Adams is back indoors after being homeless for 17 years. “It is just like winning the lottery,” he says. Louis had just been chased out of his campin ...

30 Jul 2015 - Leonora Ko
Needle Exchange: 25 years later

I remember thinking there is so much in the world that is so dire and about which I can do nothing. In the mid 1980s HIV was one of those dire things and back then nearly always meant death. It was happening here in my city, my community, but unlike many ...

31 Dec 2014 - Kathy Oliver
Second chances: 25 years of Outside In’s needle exchange program

Bridget didn’t want to buy syringes at the pharmacy. It was too humiliating an ordeal for the champion gymnast turned heroin addict to go through. Not too long ago she was doing well in high school, never dreaming she would be a junkie within a few years’ ...

29 Dec 2014 - Emily Green
For the Record June 6-19, 2014

Number of groups that marched in the 2013 Portland Pride parade: 130 Number of years the Portland Pride NW parade has been held: 43 Number of riders in the 2013 Portland World Naked Bike Ride: 8,150 Average weekday bicycle trips across the Hawthorne Bridg ...

13 Jun 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Needle exchange program loses valuable city dollars

Staff Reports In 1989, Portland’s Outside In, which provides varied services and health care to homeless youth and low-income communities, began a revolutionary needle exchange program. One of the first in the country to offer needle exchange, Outside In ...

10 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Community water fluoridation — the social justice issue of our time

By John Duke, Contributing Columnist Twice a month the Medical Teams International mobile dental van comes to Outside In to treat homeless youths and other patients within our homeless youth services. Even though the van has the ability to do cleanings an ...

2 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Portland Children’s Levy first budget reductions cut deep

Portland Children’s Levy first budget reductions cut deep By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer For the first time in its history, the Portland Children’s Levy has cut funding to children’s programs — the byproduct of declining property tax revenues. The dra ...

8 May 2012 - Street Roots