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Oregon Chapter – National Association of Social
Workers
Oregon NASW’s mission is To promote the quality of social work practice
with individuals, families, group and communities in Oregon, To promote
social work methods and professional action aired at preventing and alleviating
deprivation and distress, to improve the quality of life through the promotion
of professional knowledge and skills and the utilization of research and to
provide opportunity for the social work profession to work in unity toward
maintaining and promoting high standards of practice and preparation for
practice. This is a great site for social work information, jobs and legislative
alerts. Some information is only available to members.
Oregon Long Term Care Social Workers
Association
OLTCSWA was started in 1989 in an effort to create
an organization specifically for social workers in long term care settings.
OLTCSWA strives to be the regional leader in the ongoing definition and
development of the professional role of the long term care social worker by
providing representation, education, and networking.
Portland State University
School of Social Work
The School of Social Work
offers the only graduate social work education programs in Oregon accredited by
the Council on Social Work Education. They now offer undergraduate courses. The School was established at Portland
State University in 1961 by a resolution of the Oregon Legislature.
Oregon State Board of Clinical Social Workers
The mission of the Board is to protect Oregonians through the licensing and
regulation of clinical social workers. (editor's note: when I was an Oregon LCSW,
I always thought I was "serving" Oregonians and not "protecting" them by being
licensed!)
State of
Oregon Home Page
Laws, resources and services.
State of Oregon Human Services
Oregon HIPAA Office
The Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the first comprehensive federal protection of
individual privacy. The U.S. Congress passed the act in 1996. It also sets
national standards to protect personal health information, reduces health care
fraud and waste through standardized electronic transactions and codes, and
makes health coverage more portable.
Community Based Organizations
Multnomah County
Human Services
This link will take you to human services whether
they be addiction services, children's services or services for the elderly.
Jewish Family and Child
Services
Jewish Family & Child
Service has been serving Oregonians since 1947. JFCS is a private non-profit
social service organization dedicated to assisting individuals and families
within a context of Jewish values. We offer a wide range of human services
including professional, confidential assistance and emergency financial help for
the general Portland-area community without regard to race, religion, ethnicity,
gender, or sexual orientation.
Portland Rescue
Mission
Founded in 1949 at 316 West Burnside Street by John
Van Diest Sr., the Mission opened its doors as the “John 3:16 Mission.” The
Mission moved to larger facilities in 1954 at 111 W Burnside and changed its
name to the Portland Rescue Mission. Since that time, the Mission has ministered
to a diverse homeless population that now includes younger men, women with
children, families, the mentally ill, the drug addicted, the handicapped,
veterans and members of all races. With this changing population’s special
needs, the Mission has adapted its services accordingly. The most recent change
was their 1994 opening of “Shepherd’s Door,” a transitional women and children’s
shelter. The Mission provides meals twice a day, serving as many as 100-200 men
every day of the year. They also provide Showers and clothing distribution daily
for the men who come to the Mission’s doors. And the Mission provides a safe,
warm, clean environment in which the men can sleep every night of the
year.
Raphael
House
Since 1977 battered women and children have
been coming to Raphael House for safety, advocacy, and support. Through a myriad
of programs including children's programming, a 24-hour crisis line, case
management, an emergency shelter, and Oregon's first transitional and long-term
low-income housing programs for battered women, Raphael House has become
Oregon's most comprehensive domestic violence intervention agency for women and
children made homeless by domestic violence. Last year alone, Raphael House
served more than 3,500 women and children by giving them the opportunity to
build a self-sufficient life, free from violence.
Russian Oregon Social
Services
Since 1994, ROSS has been
helping Russian-speaking refugees and immigrants overcome the barriers they face
in their adaptation to life in the United States. This is done through advocacy and a
series of educational programs aimed at increasing economic self-sufficiency.
More
Resource Listings - From About Portland, Oregon
All About Portland and Oregon
About Portland Site
Moving to Portland or Oregon? Touring Portland or the
Pacific Northwest? Want to know the issues? We have it all on About Portland.
This is an About.com site.
Tour Powell's City of Books
This is THE place to buy books, browse and be seen
in Portland, Oregon. Enjoy!
Souvenirs from Powell's Book Store
Powell's t-shirts, coffee mugs, even snowglobes
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