Job Title:                                Family Advocate – Willow Tree Transitional Housing

Department:                           Social Services

Reports to:                             Gresham Lead Social Service Staff and Director of Programs

Food Services / Residential Specialist Position at the Northwest Service Academy Mt. Adams Center

Education Assistant, Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association, Bellingham, WA

AmeriCorps Term of Service 1/12/2009 – 11/20/2009

Rose Community Development Corp.

Revitalizing Outer South East Portland since 1992  

Kaiser Permanente awards $25,000 grant to ROSE CDC, SOUTHEAST PORTLAND

Kaiser Permanente Northwest has presented a $25,000 grant to ROSE Community Development Corp. for a program designed to increase child-care capacity in Outer Southeast Portland.            

Your local green gifts are just a click away. This December, give green gifts that give more as they grow — Gift Trees from Friends of Trees. Gift Trees cost $35 for a young native tree or $100 for a grove of six young native trees. Friends of Trees will plant the trees in local natural areas in need of restoration, or you can plant them personally, if you wish, at our Gift Tree planting in March.

The Community Consulting Program (CCP) is an outreach effort sponsored by the Organizational Development Network of Oregon and provides pro-bono consulting services to Portland area public benefit non-profits. CCP is accepting applications through January 17th for our Spring Round of consulting assistance. For more information, client testimonials, and to download the application, go to the ODN Oregon homepage and look for the CCP link: www.ODNoregon.org

Circle of the Living Earth presents:

INTRODUCTION TO SHAMANIC HEALING AND EMPOWERMENT

Wednesday, January 7, 2009, 6:30-9:30 p.m., NE Portland

Maybe you've heard about soul retrieval as an exceptionally effective modality for healing trauma. Maybe you've heard about shamanic journeying and wonder if you could do it. And what about guardian spirits?

Shamanism is an ancient spiritual practice native to every inhabited continent on earth. In the shamanic experience, our bodies reside in ordinary reality, while our spirits live mostly here, but are capable of journeying to a parallel realm where spiritual help and perspective is available.

Discussion Leader: Cliff Jones, TACS Senior Consultant

Is time managing you? Do you have a to-do-list that is impossible to complete? Has juggling priorities become your primary time management strategy? Are you one mishap away from crisis management mode? Do you love your line of work but feel too far behind schedule to enjoy the daily tasks of your job? Does it feel like your job is in control of you? You are not alone! It often seems that the world is spinning faster and faster and that there is less time to get things done.

Learn how to:

Learn about a new culture Mentors Needed! (in Portland and Vancouver)

Are you able and willing to donate your time and skills?  Do you like to have fun?  Would you be interested in welcoming refugees and immigrants into our community?  Would you like to learn about a new culture?  Learn a new language?  Would you like to be a mentor?

Come share, build, and practice your skills by volunteering your time with us!

We are looking for mentors who are willing to help Eastern European Youth.  Mentors will spend one and a half hours a week helping with homework and English, talking about school, life, and the youth's future.

If you are interested, please visit http://www.omsi.edu/current-volunteer-listings to download an application. Questions? E-mail [email protected]

POSITION SUMMARY: Volunteer Exhibit Interpreters are needed in the Featured Exhibits Hall during Da Vinci - The Genius, from January 31 through May 3, 2009. Volunteers will share content related to the exhibit with visitors, answer questions, and maintain a safe environment for both the visitors and the exhibits. Volunteers may also facilitate science demonstrations and activities that educate the public about Leonardo da Vinci.

During our upcoming Da Vinci - The Genius exhibit, OMSI will need temporary volunteer help in customer service roles. After the exhibit is over in May, volunteers will have the option to take on a different volunteer role at OMSI.

If you are interested, please download an application at http://www.omsi.edu/current-volunteer-listings and e-mail it to [email protected]

POSITION SUMMARY: OMSI needs a number of new volunteers to assist with customer service during the exhibit Da Vinci - The Genius, from January 31 through May 3, 2009. Visitor Services volunteers welcome visitors to OMSI and provide them with friendly and helpful service as they purchase tickets and enter the Da Vinci exhibit.