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Portland Street Response is funded, and its success is up to all of us

DIRECTOR’S DESK | The people with the most at stake must continue to guide the process for this program that Street Roots championed The Portland City Council vote to fund Portland Street Response is a victory for Jim, who told me that when his “brain itc ...

18 Jun 2020 - Kaia Sand
Controversial calendar prompts dialogue between firefighters, Street Roots vendors

DIRECTOR’S DESK | It was a meaningful conversation, touching on struggle, empathy and understanding Around the Street Roots office, we referred to it as the “calendar incident,” and it caused us to pause. Last week, The Oregonian reported that a firefight ...

31 Jan 2020 - Kaia Sand
With Portland Street Response, city is piloting for success and fewer obstacles

A compassionate approach to first response is popular, and we need that compassion to spill over to more areas The Portland Street Response pilot is a reality. This is a big opportunity, Portland. Now, let us take this will toward compassion, and extend i ...

22 Nov 2019 - Kaia Sand
Street Roots vendors have a say in logo design for Portland Street Response

Three vendors joined city staff in judging the logo contest A panel of three Street Roots vendors joined staff from the office of Mayor Ted Wheeler and Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty to select three winning designs in Street Roots’ contest for a new logo fo ...

15 Nov 2019 - Street Roots
Street Roots vendor cited by TriMet: Where is their sense of grace?

DIRECTOR’S DESK | Mark says that if you want to help him, you can support a just and compassionate system Mark Rodriguez’s plight with a TriMet citation struck a chord with readers. On Friday, Nov. 8, Mark told us how he’d been served a $175 citation for ...

15 Nov 2019 - Kaia Sand
What are your hopes for Portland Street Response? Show us

We want to change the criminal justice system – and we want you to design a logo Street Roots’ office bustles with the leadership and talents of people on the streets. On one recent day, Street Roots vendors circled around Haven Wheelock of Outside In to ...

25 Oct 2019 - Kaia Sand
Some Portland cops have mental health training. Where do they fit into street-response reform?

Street Roots rode along with an Enhanced Crisis Intervention Team officer to find out Zachary Nell signed up to respond to calls involving people in mental crisis, the kind of call that occurs dozens of times a day in Portland. The personable, 33-year-old ...

11 Oct 2019 - John Emshwiller
Believe our stories and listen: Perspectives on first response on the streets

REPORT | Portland Street Response survey, conducted with and for unhoused people There’s plenty of Trumpian cruelty toward the poorest people in our nation in the news. While it is tempting to challenge that wrong-headedness head-on, I will challenge it i ...

19 Sep 2019 - Kaia Sand
A democracy that reaches the unhoused

DIRECTOR’S DESK | It’s only appropriate that the people who have a key stake in the new Portland Street Response are asked to participate in the process of designing it Clipboards in hand, the teams dispatched to survey people on the streets about their e ...

26 Jul 2019 - Kaia Sand
People on the streets have a voice in building better first response

DIRECTOR’S DESK | As the city explores how to pilot Portland Street Response, it’s reaching out to unhoused residents A snoring dog lay at the feet of Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty as she leaned back against a table, nodding. A woman described how when she ...

12 Jul 2019 - Kaia Sand