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JVP's February Newsletter Vol. 1, 2023

The celebration took place just a few weeks after the Gateway Center for Domestic Violence celebrated its 10-year anniversary

Report catalogs unresolved recommendations, charts budget direction and highlights some limited progress

Legacy includes stable funding, largest bond in history and diverse workforce serving communities previously excluded

Multnomah County officials push for utility disconnection moratorium extension; also signal support for alternative customer outreach, differentiated utility rates and expanded advocacy opportunities.

Chair Kafoury, alongside County officials and partners, push to continue disconnections moratorium, look for ways to make energy access more affordable

Multnomah County helps citizens get coverage through presentations and enrollment events

Students at the Lauder Learning Center learn about climate change, and the County adopts an update to the Climate Action Plan.

Six Azerbaijani government officials, two interpreters, and an official from the US Department of Justice working in Azerbaijan traveled thousands of miles to witness juvenile justice in action.

Multnomah County and other governments are participating in a White House-led initiative to divert low-level offenders with mental illness out of the criminal justice system.

The pilot program helps Multnomah County residents remove their older, smoky wood stoves and fireplaces and replaces them with cleaner heat pumps for a healthier home and cleaner air.

Patients notified of breach, offered free identity protection service

The Multnomah County Health Department today issued a YELLOW air quality advisory asking people to avoid burning wood, starting at noon today, October 4th, 2021.

Multnomah County Animal Services Issues Update on Cat Found Decapitated

Authorities lifted all evacuation orders for N.E. Portland about 5 p.m. Tuesday, declaring “all clear’’ after repeated monitoring showed air quality had returned to healthy levels.

On Wednesday, leaders announced a first-of-its-kind partnership to get medication delivered to qualifying community members in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

Saying we are in a moment of reckoning for our country’s systemic oppression of Black people, Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury today made Juneteenth an annual paid holiday for County employees.