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Providers and Programs
The Human Services Commission wholly or partially funds the following services and programs in our community. Click in the Agency Name for more detail. The following are HSC Programs serving Lane County residents from July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002.
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Services Supported by HSC Contributions |
| Birth To Three |
Provides Parent Education and on-going support group services to parents. Target population includes; low income and/or at-risk, Spanish speaking, parenting teen and Open Doors identified, families of infants and/or toddlers in Lane County, Oregon. |
Catholic Community Services
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Provide transitional services for low-income homeless or at risk of being homeless families. |
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Provide housing assistance and case management for teen parents who are homeless or living in unsafe conditions. |
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Emergency, basic needs services are provided to low income families and individuals living in Eugene. Services may include intake and assessment, case management, food boxes, shelter and utility assistance. |
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Emergency, basic needs services are provided to low income families and individuals living in Springfield. Services may include intake and assessment, case management, food boxes, shelter and utility assistance. |
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| Centro Latino Americano | Ensure that the basic needs of low-income Latinos are met and that the social services they receive to break the cycle of poverty are of high quality. Projection: 647 households served |
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Provide transitional services for low-income homeless or at risk of being homeless families from the Spanish speaking community in Eugene, Springfield and rural Lane County. |
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Provides shelter for homeless adult, Latino men in a safe, drug and alcohol free environment. |
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| Community Sharing
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Homeless or at risk of homelessness families will be provided with services to stabilize their housing. |
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Emergency, basic needs services are provided to low income families and individuals living in South Lane County. Services may include intake and assessment, case management, food boxes, shelter and utility assistance. |
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| Direction Service |
Provides essential supports and assistance to families who have children with disabilities. Program helps families negotiate the maze of services and to create, design and tailor a comprehensive support plan to ensure that a child develops to his/her fullest potential and reduces the need for expensive and crisis based services. |
| Food for Lane County Family Dinner Program
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Provide free, hot meals to low income families in Eugene. |
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Provide free, hot meals to low income families in the Bethel/River Road area. |
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Provide free, hot meals to low income families in Springfield. |
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| Food for Lane County
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Solicit, collect, warehouse, grow, prepare, transport, record, manage, purchase and allocate food to support the needs of Lane County residents. |
| Lane Council of Governments Senior and Disabled Services |
The program prevents malnutrition in 500 elderly frail clients and enables them to remain independent and safe in their own homes as long as possible. |
| Lane County Housing Authority & Community Service Agency |
Contractor to coordinate low-income weatherization program throughout Lane County. |
| Lane County Law and Advocacy Center |
Provides legal services to assist low income county residents to obtain basic needs; access point to justice system and other social service programs. Also provides information and referral as well as community education on legal rights and issues. |
Looking Glass Youth & Family Services
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Provide short term counseling for low income children, youth and families living in Springfield who do not have other resources. |
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New Roads assists 522 youth to leave street life and re-establish stable, independent living and self-sufficiency |
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Case management services ensure that youth have assistance developing plans and skills to access housing, education, employment, healthcare, mental health and substance abuse treatment, support those victimized by sexual abuse/assault/exploitation, etc. |
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| Low Income Energy Assistance Program- LIEAP |
Provides financial assistance to low-income persons for utility bills. Elderly and handicapped are target groups. Services available in Oakridge, Cottage Grove and Florence, Eugene and Springfield. |
| Neighborhood Economic Development Corporation, NEDCO |
Provides home ownership classes and case management for low income, first time, home buyer families. |
| Pearl Buck |
Provides safe, nurturing and stimulating preschool services to children between the ages of two and five, born with average to above average intelligence, whose parents have cognitive limitations, so children can enter the public school system without the need for special education intervention. In addition, provides support for their parents in their efforts to secure and maintain safe and stable housing and basic needs. |
| Planned Parenthood |
Provide youth with printed educational materials regarding sexually transmitted disease, HIV, and teen pregnancy. |
| Relief Nursery |
Provides a developmentally appropriate early childhood environment, mental health assessments, counseling, special education assessments and services to children aged from birth to six years as well as immediate crisis response for people with parenting issues. |
| Residential Energy Assistance Challenge- REACH |
REACH 2000, in conjunction with HACSA, offers help to low-income Lane County renters and homeowners (including mobile homes) in the following areas: weatherization audit and weatherization measures, energy conservation education, case management and limited bill paying assistance for people needing weatherization. |
Saint Vincent de Paul
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Provide adults, who are homeless and/or at risk of becoming homeless, emergency services and provisions including; showers, food, laundry, clothing, lockers, personal hygiene supplies, restrooms, phones, bus tokens, small kitchen facilities, counseling, day shelter, job referral and community referrals. |
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Provide families with children, who are homeless and/or at risk of becoming homeless, emergency services and provisions including; food, day/night shelter, clothing, laundry, kitchen facilities, child care, phones, case management, mail drop and more. Families served in Springfield and Eugene. |
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Provides home ownership classes and case management for low income, first time, home buyer families. |
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Provides homeless Lane County families with housing, intense case management and supportive services in an effort to assist homeless families realize their goals, overcome their individual barriers and enable each family to obtain and maintain stable housing over time. |
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| Sexual Assault Support Services |
Provides crisis intervention and stabilization support services to survivors of sexual violence and their families. |
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Mitigate the trauma of sexual assault and increase the ability of youth survivors to cope with the impact of sexual assault on their lives. |
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ShelterCare
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The program provides case management for sheltered families wishing to leave the shelter for permanent community housing. The program provides ongoing support through case management offering the opportunity for families to set goals such as increased household income, reduced debt, improved employment, and housing stability. Households may receive case management for up to two years. The goal of the program is to enable families to progress toward self sufficiency. |
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Provides a "Centralized Waiting List" program that offers information and referral for county shelter programs. In addition, families with children, who are homeless, are given crisis intervention services, emergency shelter and support services at two community shelter locations. Family Shelter House is located in Eugene and the other shelter, known as Brethren Housing, is situated in Springfield. |
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The Safe Haven Shelter and Day Program (SHV) reduces homelessness among adults with severe persistent mental illness (SPMI) who have been chronically homeless in the community. |
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| Provide deferred cost housing for up to 90 days to single adults with severe, persistent mental illness. Projection: 17 households served |
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| Siuslaw Area Women's Center
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To promote economic independence of eligible homeless or at risk of becoming homeless families including teens, and victims of domestic violence. |
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Emergency, basic needs services are provided to low income families and individuals living in West Lane County. Services may include intake and assessment, case management, shelter and utility assistance. |
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| Sponsors |
Provides shelter and related transition services for single, ex-offenders in Lane County and educate the community on corrections and criminal justice issues. |
| Tenant Based Assistance- TBA |
Rental assistance (partial rent payment) to individuals and families that meet federally established guidelines. |
| TheLane- Online Community Resource Database for Lane County |
Online Community Resource Database. TheLane's website is a powerful tool for locating information about the social service resources that are available in Lane County. It contains a wealth of information to assist individuals and families in finding the help they need quickly--services that perhaps they did not know even existed. |
| Upper Willamette Community Development Corporation |
To provide low-income households living in Oakridge with food boxes. |
White Bird Clinic
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Provides reduced or free cost urgent, on-going and preventive dentistry, to low income children and adults. The targeted population includes those unemployed, uninsured, disabled and homeless. Their common characteristics include marginal self-sufficiency, neglected dental problems and conditions which limit access to care, ranging from mental illness and substance abuse to cultural or language barriers. |
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Provide free and sliding-scale primary health care services for low income, uninsured individuals and families living in Lane County. Services include exams, basic lab work and common medications. Access to higher level care will be arranged when possible. Target population includes low income, uninsured people, including the working poor, the un employed, the homeless and people with disabilities. |
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Womenspace
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Assist low-income survivors of domestic violence to increase economic independence and emotional stability in order to lead violence free lives and improve self-sufficiency. |
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Provides shelter and emergency services for battered women and children who are fleeing abusive family members. In addition, male and female victims of elder and other types of abuse are also provided services. |
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