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Helping Homeless Families in Portland

YES We Can! STOP Federal LIHEAP Funding Cuts

Your help is needed NOW. The current administration has proposed to cut $1.8 billion from the federal budget for LIHEAP (Low Income Heat and Energy Assistance Program) funding. This would be devastating for many people in our community, and in communities across the nation. Every year, struggling families turn to agencies like Human Solutions for energy assistance. LIHEAP's current federal budget of $5.1 billion doesn't provide enough to meet the needs of low-income and homeless families across the country.

Human Solutions' clients depend on access to this federal energy assistance for survival. Each year Human Solutions provides more than 9,000 households in Multnomah County with emergency energy assistance, which is critical during the winter months.

This is how YOU can help. There is a new proposal called, 'The Energy Assistance for American Families Act', which will restore current levels of LIHEAP funding and contribute an additional $2.5 billion, for a total of $7.6 billion.

Please contact your Senators and Representatives TODAY and tell them why you think it is imperative that they support The Energy Assistance for American Families Act to restore and expand LIHEAP funding.

Here are your Senators' and Representatives' addresses to contact. If you would like to call or email instead, please click on their name below to be sent to their webpage:

Senator Ron Wyden
223 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Senator Jeff Merkley
107 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Representative David Wu
2338 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515

Representative Earl Blumenauer
2267 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515

Helping Homeless Families in Portland

Thank You Nationwide Insurance Foundation

Nationwide Insurance Foundation awarded a $10,000 grant to support Human Solutions' Daybreak Shelter for Homeless Families. This grant will be used to provide emergency shelter for homeless families as well as to provide the resources and support families need to be able to move into permanent housing. Human Solutions is deeply grateful to Nationwide Insurance Foundation for supporting homeless families in the Portland area.

Homeless Families Warming Center

Human Solutions helps a homeless 9 year-old and her family find a home - and hope

PORTLAND, Ore. - At first, 9-year-old Brehanna didn't seem to understand.Her family was being evicted from their home in Tualatin, a Portland suburb. Her father, Joe Ledesma, a homebuilder for 20 years, was without a job and couldn't find another. He couldn't pay the $800 rent on the three-bedroom house where he, his wife Heidi and daughter lived

Read the rest of the story on MSNBC >>

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Do You Need Help?

If you are in need of affordable housing, job training, computer classes, eviction prevention, move-in assistance, energy assistance, or other resources to address poverty and/or homelessness, please call 503-548-0200, or 503-405-7875 Mon through Fri, 8 to 5.

 

Homeless Families Warming Center

The Homeless Families Warming Center is open from 7p.m. to 7a.m. for any family who needs a warm place to sleep at night. Financial support and volunteers are still needed!

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12350 SE Powell Blvd. Portland, OR 97236
501 NE Hood, #310, Gresham, OR 97030
18709 SE Stark, Gresham, OR 97233

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Main number: 503-548-0200
info@humansolutions.org

Do you have a question about donations to Human Solutions?
503-548-0221
wnamba@humansolutions.org

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503-516-7292

 
     
 
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 Did you know?
Employment
More than 400 jobless individuals each year in Mid and East Multnomah County get job training to increase their job skills and to help them gain livable wages through our employment programs.
Homelessness Services
More than 700 families are homeless in Multnomah County each night. Human Solutions gives 85 of those families the chance to escape homelessness through our Daybreak Shelter and Homeless Family Programs.
Safety Net Services
340 families were saved from evictionlast year through our emergency rent assistance. Also last year, more than 6,000 households kept their heat and lights on during the winter through our energy assistance.
Housing
Human Solutions offers 539 units of affordable housing to homeless and low-income families at 14 sites, which provide resident services for families, community activities and a safe place for children.
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