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Houseless young people have banded together in SW Portland

Under an overpass near Bertha Boulevard is a small village of youths, who are grateful for the help they're receiving from their neighbors S outhwest Bertha Boulevard is busy. It zips through the center of Southwest Portland, connecting major streets ...

9 Jun 2021 - Emma Nathanson
Number of homeless students at Portland Public Schools is down, but so is overall enrollment

Part of the decrease is attributed to less accurate counting while students are learning remotely The number of students identified as homeless in Portland Public Schools is nearly half what it was this time last year — but district officials say those nu ...

23 Dec 2020 - Christen McCurdy
Amid the pandemic, Community Transitional School faces its biggest challenge

The Portland school, now in its third decade educating students experiencing homelessness, is working to keep students connected It was a cool, rainy Portland morning when Trisha Olson boarded the small school bus she drives every morning. It’s decorated ...

2 Dec 2020 - Christen McCurdy
As students face housing insecurity, Oregon colleges find creative ways to boost graduation rates

Developers, politicians and nonprofits are coming together to look at how they can support students Ryan Sturley wasn’t surprised to hear that housing insecurity among students on Portland State University’s campus stood at 45% last year. The statistic, w ...

18 Nov 2020 - Jessica Pollard
Community colleges, students grapple with housing insecurity during the pandemic

In the Portland area, a growing number of students are experiencing some form of homelessness, and COVID-19 has made it harder to balance schoolwork with basic needs Attending college classes online and studying at home doesn’t mean long hours in a home o ...

11 Aug 2020 - Christen McCurdy
More homelessness expected among K-12 students in Portland

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, unhoused students struggled to stay connected, and district officials don’t know how many have fallen through the cracks Portland had 1,217 students experiencing some form of homelessness last fall. With the pandemic and en ...

8 Aug 2020 - Christen McCurdy
Learning from past economic crises, we must protect young people from homelessness

COMMENTARY | If we don’t do enough now, today’s youth will struggle with housing insecurity in older age We are in a period of incredibly rapid change and ambiguity, and there is a growing recognition that many of the changes experienced in the past month ...

6 May 2020 - Marisa Espinoza
Rural Oregon school districts shift to outreach, connecting homeless families to services

When coronavirus hit, homeless students lost their safe haven: school Butte Falls is written in fine print on the Jackson County map, about 30 miles uphill northeast of Medford. It’s a small community of about 450 people, one gas station, one grocery stor ...

14 Apr 2020 - Joanne Zuhl
Portland alternative school brings success stories for Native American youths

NAYA’s Many Nations Academy offers support to students affected by homelessness, violence and other barriers to traditional education Walking through NAYA’s long halls at 9 a.m. on a Wednesday made it pretty clear that the space doubled as a high school. ...

22 Mar 2020 - Anna Pedersen
Cost of child care shuts out many who need it most, leaves workers behind

Two Oregon proposals to invest public money in early learning would change the trajectory of children living in poverty and increase earning potential of child care workers and parents Few investments in the lives of low-income and at-risk children have t ...

13 Mar 2020 - Emily Green