CASCADIA BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE

PO Box 8459                                                     
Portland, OR 97207-8459                                           
503-238-0769                                                            
FAX: 503-963-7711

CASCADIA HOUSING, INC.

PO Box 9275
Portland, OR 97207
503-238-0769
FAX: 503-402-8119

Physical address: 847 NE 19th Ave. Suite 100, Portland OR 97232
www.cascadiabhc.org

AGENCY INFORMATION
Derald Walker, Chief Executive Officer
Jim Hlava, VP Residential & Housing Services
Total Number of Staff: 782
Housing Department Staff: 20
Projected Annual Operating Budget: $42 million
Total Cost of Development: $26.7 million
Area Served: Multnomah, Clackamas, & Lane Counties

Total number of people housed (as of end of 2010): 582
Total Number of Units Developed: 626 (all Rental)
Total Number of Units under Development: 0

SERVICES AND PROGRAMS OFFERED

• Resident Services
• Social Services
• Youth Programs
• Senior Programs
• Workforce Development
• Community Safety
• Mixed Use Development
• Green Building
• Community Facilities

MISSION

As a major nonprofit Oregon service provider, Cascadia delivers mental health and addictions treatment services to some of the state’s most vulnerable, yet resilient, people. We also provide residential, supported housing, and permanent housing to more than 600 individuals.

We operate in diverse communities with a workforce of approximately 800 people in multiple locations, along with mobile outreach workers who travel about in the community.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Met critical financial goals in challenging funding environment: balanced budget, established reserves, adapting to fundamental changes in reimbursement methods, and the capital costs of converting to new technologies for billing, scheduling and medical record keeping.  Today, Cascadia is stronger than ever.
• Cascadia serves approximately 12,000 Oregonians each year; people who are struggling with mental illness, addictions, health problems, poverty, homelessness, and other issues. We are partners in facilitating recovery and creating hope and opportunity for people (and their families) struggling with enormous challenges.
• Cascadia developed and manages over 600 units of affordable housing for very low-income people with disabilities.  Much of the housing we operate is Permanent Supportive Housing for formerly homeless, high barrier individuals.
• Cascadia operates an emergency shelter and low-barrier transitional housing for homeless individuals having mental illnesses at the Royal Palm and programs in downtown Portland.
• Cascadia operates licensed residential addictions and mental health programs in Lane, Clackamas and Multnomah Counties.

CURRENT PROJECTS

• Current developments within Cascadia are focused within the clinical services programs.
• Expansion of crisis and clinical outpatient services in Clackamas County.
• The Cascadia Consumer Advisory Council is leading a mental health advocacy program funded by NW Health Foundation to engage mental health consumers in the health care reform dialogue as it relates to policy both within Cascadia and at local and state level.
• Cascadia’s Garlington Center outpatient clinic is piloting a project in which consumers with medical needs can receive primary care on site through Outside In’s Mobile Medical Clinic, and those without primary care can engage Outside In as their medical home.
• Cascadia’s Garlington Center has been awarded a Kaiser Special Projects grant and state funding to develop and provide culturally appropriate child and family services.
• Cascadia is spearheading Safer PDX, part of a national performance improvement project focused on reducing police contact in mental health crisis. This project sponsored in part by the George Soros Foundation. This project is anchored in our crisis services division.  Our Project Respond Mobile Crisis Unit is engaged in a partnership with Portland Police, in which Project Respond workers are accompanying police on calls involvement mental health crisis.
• Residential Services – Alberta Street Kitchen, which provides meals to our residential consumers, recently received a grant from Multnomah County Health Department to conduct outreach and engagement among staff and consumers about health eating as part of the Healthy Active Multnomah County: It Starts Here Campaign
• Continued expansion of Supported Housing Program models, with the Clinton Street Apartments as the most recent example

PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT

Oregon Housing and Community Services Department • Oregon Department of Human Resources, Addictions and Mental Health Division • Portland Development Commission • Multnomah County • Clackamas County • Lane County • Enterprise Community Investments • Enterprise Green Communities • Network for Oregon Affordable Housing • City of Gresham • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development • Meyer Memorial Trust