Street Outreach offered at Janus Youth Programs at The Perch
Street Outreach offered at Janus Youth Programs at The Perch
Provides community volunteers the opportunity to work directly with street youth by training them to operate as street outreach teams that provide crisis intervention and information and referral services in the downtown Portland area. Youth who access outreach services receive first aid, hygiene supplies, socks, hats, gloves, harm reductions materials, resource referral, and a caring prospective. Basic first aid and hygiene items provided to other age groups as well.
Categories
Physical Address
1501 Columbia Street, Vancouver, WA 98660
Hours
M/Tu/Th/F 10:30am-1pm and 5:30pm-6pm, W 10:30am-6pm
Application process
Call for information
Fee
None
Eligibility
Volunteers must be 18 or older and be able to clear a background check.
Agency info
Janus Youth Programs
Operates community-based programs in Oregon and Washington for children and youth and their families. A network of over 40 programs includes runaway and homeless youth services in the form of street outreach, 24-hour access and assessment, emergency and short-term shelter, family reunification, transitional housing, and independent living services; residential and shelter services for youth in the custody of the Oregon Youth Authority and Oregon's child welfare system; a scholarship program for former clients; and an urban agriculture program. Face-to-face contacts with runaway and homeless youth are completed through an all-volunteer street outreach program on the streets every night.