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Street Roots • July 22-28, 2Q16 Poetry Page 14 Untitled Wind by Cactus by Maddy Brown-Clark Something I don’t know is seeking me aimlessness and paranoia are the same unless... I don’t know that a steak dinner is following me that doesn’t make me paranoid maybe a steak dinner is seeking me Are me and a steak dinner circling around each other in the dark and we don’t even know if we’re looking for each other patience brings everything to those that are patient. The unseen power Like a spirit Blows away The dust of time Exposing new growth Carrying seeds of wisdom Everywhere Changing life’s landscape Carrying dreams Like an unseen power Invisible but so existing. The Truth by Daniel Cox Spur of the moment so they say you say, “I give up; I am quitting you!” When it was my turn to speak, the only word I uttered, was never... CareOregon goMobile team Notice: Request for Proposals RFP No. 07/16-316 Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (VASH) Project Based Vouchers Home Forward is requesting proposals from housing providers to partner with Home Forward and the local Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in an application to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for set-aside funding available for Project Based HUD-VASH Vouchers using a Housing First approach. VASH vouchers come with Section 8 voucher rent assistance as well as ongoing case management and supports for the veteran provided by the Veterans Affairs (VA). Selected properties will be included in joint applications for VASH vouchers to be project based pending an award from HUD. The award of Project Based Vouchers (PBV) to the selected property will be conditional, subject to the successful award of HUD funding and compliance with all federal requirements including the PBV VASH regulations, the Fair Housing Act, the Civil Rights Act and the American with Disabilities Act. In the event HUD does not award Project Based VASH Vouchers for the selected property, Home Forward may elect to award Project Based VASH Vouchers currently available to Home Forward to the selected properties. Interested parties may access the RFP at the Home Forward website below. http://www.homeforward.orq/work-with-us/business-contractinq/current-opportunities Proposals must be received by 2 p.m. on August 17, 2016. Proposals should be sent either electronically as pdf files or by other postal delivery method to the attention of: RFP Contact: Berit Stevenson Procurement and Contracts Manager Home Forward 135 SW Ash Street, 5th Floor Portland, Oregon 97204 Telephone: 503.802.8541 Email: berit.stevenson@homeforward.org Direct questions regarding this RFP to the RFP contact listed above. OHP Navigation Clinics CareOregon and our partners make Oregon Health Plan navigation easy! We offer help with: • Medicaid medical, dental and mental health appointments • Medicare eligibility for disabled and elderly adults Find us at these locations: Bud Clark Commons Portland Rescue Mission 665 NW Hoyt Avenue 8-10 a.m. July 20 8-10 a.m. 111 W Burnside City Team Portland 526 SE Grand Ave July 13 8-10 a.m. Clackamas County Transition Center 2223 Kaen Road, Oregon City July 13............ 1- July 27............ 1- July 14. July 21. July 28. 8-10 a.m. 8-10 a.m. 8-10 a.m. 8-10 a.m. Union Gospel Mission 3 SW 3rd Ave July 19............ 2-4 p.m. July 26......... ...2-4 p.m. ‘ACTUAL PHONE MAY VARY.
