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

AGENCY INFORMATION
Rocky Johnson, Executive Director   
Jim Tierney, Deputy Director
Total Number of Staff: 190   
Housing & Community Development Staff: 21
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: 240  (Rental-181; Homeownership-18; Transitional Housing-20; Flood Recovery-21)           
Total Number of Units Under Development: 21 (Homeownership)

PROGRAM AND SERVICES OFFERED

• Social Services
• Child Care
• Youth Programs
• Community Organizing
• Homeownership Counseling (prepurchase & foreclosure)
• IDAs
• Mixed Use Development
• Green Building
• Community Facilities
• Community Disaster Recovery Program

MISSION
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, 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.

WHO WE SERVE
Community Action Team, through its mission statement, traditionally serves low-income residents in our 3-county service area.  We offer referrals by telephone and in person to low-income residents and homeless persons.  We offer, through our various programs, emergency rental assistance, emergency energy assistance, and a wide range of other services.  Our staff is seeing an increase in the number of people requesting help, as well as a significant increase in people seeking mortgage modification and foreclosure prevention assistance.

We also work in partnership with Clatsop Community Action and CARE in Tillamook, to dovetail services to the greatest number of people in need.

Through our community development department we touch even more people through project support and development.  We are also currently running a flood recovery program in Vernonia and Columbia County, to assist residents affected by the 2007 disaster through the many Federal and State programs and regulations.  This program has resulted in over $24 Million in assistance being brought to the community, for both individual households and the municipal entities including the school district, City of Vernonia and Columbia County.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Developer, contractor, owner of an 80 unit acquisition and rehabilitation project in St. Helens
• Rehabilitated over 670 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 Senior Centers in St. Helens and Vernonia
• Planned and created an innovative comprehensive flood recovery for City and County entities, using donations, volunteers, workforce training staff, and State and Federal resources
• 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 $12,000,000
• Prevented 40 foreclosures in 2009 through our Foreclosure Prevention program and Mortgage Modifications

CURRENT PROJECTS

• Development of a Family Resource Center facility in Columbia County
• Development of a multi-use community facility project in Vernonia
• On-going housing rehab and weatherization – over 125 units per year
• Land development for 2 new rounds of Self Help homes
• 8 self-help houses in Scappoose
• 9 self-help houses in Seaside
• Development of 5 new homes for flood victims in Vernonia
• Operation of a “one stop” Housing Center
• Developed and implemented an innovative Weatherization Training Program, partnering with Coastal Community Action Program in Aberdeen, WA, Clatsop Community College’s Economic Development Center and Enterprise Cascadia
• Foreclosure Prevention Program, initially using the Treasury Department’s Mortgage Prevention Assistance (MPA) Program

PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT

Oregon Housing and Community Services Department • Oregon Business Development 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 •  Rural Development Initiatives • National Community Action Foundation • Oregon Emergency Management • Federal Emergency Management Agency • Meyer Memorial Trust • Oregon ON • Coastal Community Action Program Aberdeen Washington • National Community Action Foundation  • AT&T • Enterprise Cascadia • OECA • Medical Teams International • Clatsop Community College Economic Development Center • Astoria Regional Loan Board • Columbia County • City of Vernonia • City of St. Helens • City of Astoria • City of Tillamook • City of Scappoose • City of Seaside • City of Warrenton • Christian Aid Ministries • Christian Public Services • NW Natural Gas • Columbia County Flood Recovery Unmet Needs Committee • Columbia River PUD • Tillamook PUD • Clatskanie PUD •  West Oregon Electric Co-op

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