“The Lost Boys of Portlandia" will premiere June 7 Jake Averi was 18 when he became homeless and on his own. He moved out of his foster home a month after aging out of the system and, despite his best efforts at getting and keeping his own apartment, ...
30 May 2016 - Ann-Derrick Gaillot
Bridget didn’t want to buy syringes at the pharmacy. It was too humiliating an ordeal for the champion gymnast turned heroin addict to go through. Not too long ago she was doing well in high school, never dreaming she would be a junkie within a few years’ ...
29 Dec 2014 - Emily Green
Number of groups that marched in the 2013 Portland Pride parade: 130 Number of years the Portland Pride NW parade has been held: 43 Number of riders in the 2013 Portland World Naked Bike Ride: 8,150 Average weekday bicycle trips across the Hawthorne Bridg ...
13 Jun 2014 - Street Roots Staff
Staff Reports In 1989, Portland’s Outside In, which provides varied services and health care to homeless youth and low-income communities, began a revolutionary needle exchange program. One of the first in the country to offer needle exchange, Outside In ...
10 May 2013 - Street Roots Staff
Portland Children’s Levy first budget reductions cut deep By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer For the first time in its history, the Portland Children’s Levy has cut funding to children’s programs — the byproduct of declining property tax revenues. The dra ...
8 May 2012 - Street Roots
Another political casualty: Needle exchange programs rely on local support after the feds bail on funding By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer For the second time in two years, Congress is reversing its policy on federal funding for syringe exchange programs ...
2 Feb 2012 - Street Roots
Part IV: The good, the bad and the ugly: tracking brain injuries, health care for the homeless Street Roots is running an in-depth investigative series on Brain injuries and homelessness. Read “ Part I: All in their heads, Part II: Why Diagnosing traumati ...
7 Jul 2011 - Street Roots
City pumps $1 million into housing bottleneck By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer The Portland Housing Bureau announced this month how it plans to spend a $1 million special allocation to address the rise in homelessness in Portland. The money is being used ...
5 Nov 2010 - Street Roots
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27 Oct 2010 - Street Roots
Living for two: Pregnancy among homeless teens is rising By Amanda Waldroupe, Staff Writer Sometimes, a person’s life will be forever changed because of an accident or unexpected event — for better or for worse, and regardless of whether the person welcom ...
16 Sep 2010 -