125 N 17th Street
St. Helens, OR 97051
(503) 397-3511
FAX: (503) 397-3290
www.cat-team.org

AGENCY INFORMATION
David A. Johnson, Executive Director   
Jim Tierney, Deputy Director
Total Number of Staff: 190   
Housing & Community Development Staff: 28
Total Value of Developments to date: $19,800,000
Annual Operating Budget: $8,903,291   
Area Served: Columbia, Clatsop, and Tillamook Counties
Year Incorporated: 1966

Total Number of Units Developed: 214  (Rental-178; Homeownership-16; Transitional Housing-20)           
Total Number of Units Under Development: 24 (Rental-3; Homeownership-21)

PROGRAM AND SERVICES OFFERED

• Social Services
• Child Care
• Youth Programs
• Community Organizing
• Homeownership Counseling
• IDA’s
• Mixed Use Development
• Community Facilities
• Community Disaster Recovery Program

MISSION
The Community Action Team is one of over nine hundred community action programs nationwide that were formed under the Johnson Administration to eradicate poverty.  As a nonprofit corporation, the Community Action Team provides a wide variety of programs throughout Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook Counties. Community Action Team’s Community Investment Department is one of these programs.  Since 1978, Community Investment staff has rehabilitated over 750 rental and homeowner housing units.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Developer, contractor, owner of an 80 unit acquisition and rehabilitation project in St. Helens
• Rehabilitated over 500 homes
• Established revolving loan funds with assets over $4,000,000
• Development and ownership of 26 units of affordable housing in Vernonia
• Development and ownership of 36 units of affordable housing in Cannon Beach
• Initiated and consulted in development of 36 units of affordable housing in Warrenton
• Provided CDBG technical assistance to eight cities, two counties and several nonprofit organizations
• Development of a Senior Center in Vernonia
• Created a model program to replace 10 low-income owner-occupied mobile homes
• Completed 16 sweat equity single family homes in St. Helens
• Development of 20 person transitional housing for ex-offenders in Columbia County
• Developed community facility & infrastructure projects with a combined value of $10,000,000

CURRENT PROJECTS

• Development of a Family Resource Center facility in Columbia County
• Development of a multi-use community facility project in Vernonia
• Development of a Senior Center in St. Helens
• On-going housing rehab and weatherization – 80 units per year
• Working toward completion of eight (8) self-help houses in Scappoose
• Working toward completion of nine (9) self-help houses in Seaside
• Development of 4 new homes for flood victims in Vernonia
• Land development for 2 new round of Self Help homes
• Operation of a “one stop” Housing Center

PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT
Oregon Housing and Community Services Department  •  Bank of America  •  Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle  •  Clatsop County Housing Authority  •  Columbia County Housing Authority  •  Rural Community Assistance Corporation  •  Oregon Rural Housing Coalition  •  Clatsop Community Action  •  CARE, Inc.  •   Cannon Beach CDC  •  USDA Rural Development  •  NOWCDC

STAFF PARTICIPATING IN INDUSTRY SUPPORT PROGRAMS
Beverly Danner
Dianne Dubach Property & Asset Managers
Anita Ellefsen-Drexel Homeownership Education & Counseling
Carla Laffoon Homeownership Education & Counseling
Susan Metcalf Homeownership Education & Counseling
Casey Mitchell Homeownership Education & Counseling
Cindy Peake Homeownership Education & Counseling
Susan Wagner Fiscal Managers
Crystal Weston Fiscal Managers