Page 6 The Portland Observer-September 19, 1990
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BRADLEY-ANGLE HOUSE, INC. A Resident Case Study
Bradley-Angle House can shelter
seven women and eight children as we
have the space availability. During the
month of August, we sheltered an His
panic mother with four children. There
were two boys and two girls. All the
children were bi-lingual. This woman
presented us with a real challenge. There
was a language barrier. Two members of
our Staff spoke enough Spanish to com
municate with her on a limited basis.
1'here was also a cultural barrier.
The resident was escaping the chil-
ing them. Children’s Protective Services
had been brought into it and there was a
possibility of the State taking her chil
dren if she became homeless because of
the past abuse.
Before the woman came to our
Shelter, she had been in a Shelter in
Washington County. At the other Shelter
they have a bi-lingual Staff and shelter
more Hispanic women. They have ac
cess to more resources in the Hispanic
Community. The Staff was overloaded
with women and children at the ume she
was there and just didn ’ t feel equipped to
handle her. Our Shelter is smaller and
more intimate as far as Resident/Coun-
selor contact.
The barriers that I perceived that
needed to be overcome were:
1. She needed a bi-lingual person to
help her through the system (dealing
with CPS because of the possibility of
having them take her children away from
her). She needed help with the legal
aspects of her situation and explanations
of what was going on.
2. Transportation posed a very seri
ous problem. She had four children,spoke
limited english, and needed to find hous
ing.
3. She was eligible for Section 8
Housing in Washington County. Her
Section 8 wouldn’t be available until
September 13, 1989 and her stay there
would be up on August 25, 1989. It was
suggested that she use her Emergency
Assistance Grant (E-2), and get an apart
ment until her Section 8 came through. If
she did that, she would still lack money
when she had to move again. Also, she
was in Multnomah County and all the
housing that she was eligible for was in
Washington County.
Our main objective in working with
her was to see that she and her children
did not become homeless. It took many
frustrating hours and days to track down
resources. Finding dependable interpret-
ers/advocates and transportation was very
difficult. I was determined to find some
kind of temporary housing until her Sec
tion 8 was available. We found her an
apartment through a transitional program.
Case Study Provided by: Brenda
Marshall, Case Manager.
BRADLEY-ANGLE HOUSE, INC.
WELFARE
REINSTATES
ADC-UN
BENEFITS
Oregon’s Adult and Family
Services Division begins taking appli-
e.tuons this month for the state’s two-
parent welfare program that restarts
October 1. The program becomes per-
nanent and year-round in Oregon as a
feature of welfare reform.
ADC-kJ N is a part of the Aid tc
Dependent Children program. It serves
a
parent families who arc unemployed
or underemployed and is funded by the
federal government and the Oregon
Legislature.
ADC-UN was, until now, a nine-
month pr ,gram. Not financed for the
summer, it was stopped in July, but will
become permanent this coming Octo
ber.
T ¡e restart of ADC-UN coin
cides with Oregon’s implementation of
welfare relorm. JOBS for Oregon’s
Future, as welfare reform in Oregon is
called, brings many changes to programs
at Adult and Family Services. In par
ticular, it changes the agency’s employ
ment and training program, known as
JOBS. Accordingly, families applying
for ADC-UN will have their job skills
assisted under new, welfare reform cri
teria.
Two-parent familiies who are
unemployed or underemployed should
contact the Adult and Family Services
office nearest them for additional infor
mation and applications.
Adult and Family Services is a
division of the Oregon Department of
Human Resources. The division typi
cally serves some eight thousand O re
gonians with ADC-UN benefits and 32
thousand with ADC benefits.
Benjamin Franklin
has disappeared.
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PUBLIC SERVICE
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Vancouver Housing Authority
does not discriminate on the basis of
handicap status in admission or access to
its federally assisted programs and ac
tivities or in the treatment of people
participating in VHA programs of em
ployed by the VHA.
The VHA has completed an evalu
ation of its programs and facilities for
handicap accessibility and compliance
with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973, as amended. Interested
persons are invited to review this study
at the VHA Administration Building,
500 Omaha Way, Vancouver.
If you have questions regarding
housing in VHA programs, please call
the VHA and your inquiry will be di
rected to the appropriate person.
Telephone N um ber:
(206) 694-2501 Voice
(206) 694-8369 TDD
LaVon Holden has been designated
to coordinate compliance with the non
discrimination requirements contained
in the Department of Housing and Urban
Development’s (HUD) regulations im
plementing Section 504 (24 CFR Part 8,
dated June 2, 1988).
For M ore Inform ation C ontact:
Tom Gay
694-2501
LaVon Holden 694-2501
Alice Dorter 694-2501
Mike McGuire 694-2501
OMBUDSMAN
PROGRAM TO
HOLD ANNUAL
RECOGNITION
The Ombudsman Committee of the
t'ordand/Niulinomah Commission on
Aging will host its annual recognition of
lie Multnt mah County Certified Om-
I man on Friday September 21,1990.
vlcrcdiih Cote, the Oregon State Om-
Lid->man, will be the keynote speaker.
Th individual ombudsman will be
honored fo their contributions a volun
tarily advocating for Multnomah Coun
ties 7000 plus long term care residents.
Recognition ceremonies will begin at
12 11, preceded by the luncheon. FOR
INK )R MAHON: Nancy L. Erckenbrack,
796-5269.
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