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In April 2019, it has announced that it is expanding to add a second location in Gresham near NE 162nd and Burnside which will open Spring of 2020 for transients and low income people. According to its development director, Outside In helps "unique populations that are not well-served in other health care settings,".<ref name="Gresham"/> ''[[Willamette Week]]'' reported in April 2019 that Outside In employees are members of AFSCME along with a handful of other private nonprofits heavily funded by government contracts.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/04/17/a-nonprofit-aiding-refugees-epitomizes-portland-values-what-happens-when-its-workers-want-a-union/|title=A Nonprofit Aiding Refugees Epitomizes Portland Values. What Happens When Its Workers Want a Union?|last=Furlan|first=Elise|date=April 17, 2019|work=Willamette Week|access-date=September 24, 2019|quote=Employees at Central City Concern, Volunteers of America, Outside In, and Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, all private nonprofits heavily funded by government contracts, are also AFSCME members.}}</ref> |
In April 2019, it has announced that it is expanding to add a second location in Gresham near NE 162nd and Burnside which will open Spring of 2020 for transients and low income people. According to its development director, Outside In helps "unique populations that are not well-served in other health care settings,".<ref name="Gresham"/> ''[[Willamette Week]]'' reported in April 2019 that Outside In employees are members of AFSCME along with a handful of other private nonprofits heavily funded by government contracts.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.wweek.com/news/2019/04/17/a-nonprofit-aiding-refugees-epitomizes-portland-values-what-happens-when-its-workers-want-a-union/|title=A Nonprofit Aiding Refugees Epitomizes Portland Values. What Happens When Its Workers Want a Union?|last=Furlan|first=Elise|date=April 17, 2019|work=Willamette Week|access-date=September 24, 2019|quote=Employees at Central City Concern, Volunteers of America, Outside In, and Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, all private nonprofits heavily funded by government contracts, are also AFSCME members.}}</ref> |
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Outside In is a [[Federally Qualified Health Center]] (FQHC) and a licensed mental health agency.{{jargon-inline|date=April 2019}}<ref name=About/> Outside In operates a needle exchange for drug addicts.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/223820-85222-life-saving-overdose-drug-gains-street-cred|title=Life-saving overdose drug gains street cred|last=Korn|first=Peter|date=June 12, 2004|work=Portland Tribune|access-date=|quote=Outside In runs a downtown needle exchange for drug addicts}}</ref> The syringe exchange, implemented in 1989, was the first one to be developed and the third to go into operation in the country. <ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUesCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT664&lpg=PT664&dq |title= The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being |editors= Hugh Barton, Susan Thompson, Sarah Burgess, Marcus Grant |year= 2015 |publisher= [[Routledge]]}}</ref> In 2013–2014, the organization self reported it served 966 youth with mental health care, drug and alcohol treatment, employment, education, job training, and housing.<ref name=Report>{{cite web |url= http://www.outsidein.org/docs/directors%20data%20report%20FY14_FINAL%281%29.pdf |title= Director's Data Report: 2013–2014 |publisher= Outside In |accessdate= December 1, 2015}}</ref> Outside In's medical clinic was the [[medical home]] for 5,384 people in 2014.<ref name="Report" /> The same year, the group's [[Needle exchange programme|syringe exchange]] served 4,322 people.<ref name="Report" /> |
Outside In is a [[Federally Qualified Health Center]] (FQHC) and a licensed mental health agency.{{jargon-inline|date=April 2019}}<ref name=About/> Outside In operates a needle exchange for drug addicts.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/223820-85222-life-saving-overdose-drug-gains-street-cred|title=Life-saving overdose drug gains street cred|last=Korn|first=Peter|date=June 12, 2004|work=Portland Tribune|access-date=|quote=Outside In runs a downtown needle exchange for drug addicts}}</ref> The syringe exchange, implemented in 1989, was the first one to be developed and the third to go into operation in the country. <ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUesCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT664&lpg=PT664&dq |title= The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being |editors= Hugh Barton, Susan Thompson, Sarah Burgess, Marcus Grant |year= 2015 |publisher= [[Routledge]]}}</ref> The needle exchange program has been operating a street heroin testing service for about two years as told to [[Oregon Public Broadcasting]] in September 2019 by Haven Wheelock who runs the needle exchange program at Outside In. Drug possession continues to be strictly illegal even though sergeant Brad Yakots with the [[Portland Police Bureau]] said it won't prioritize enforcement against people having their drugs tested.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-drugs-purity-reduce-overdose-deaths/|title=Authorities Support Program To Check Purity Of Street Drugs|last=Foden-Vencil|first=Kristian|date=September 26, 2019|website=Oregon Public Broadcasting|language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2019-10-14}}</ref> In 2013–2014, the organization self reported it served 966 youth with mental health care, drug and alcohol treatment, employment, education, job training, and housing.<ref name=Report>{{cite web |url= http://www.outsidein.org/docs/directors%20data%20report%20FY14_FINAL%281%29.pdf |title= Director's Data Report: 2013–2014 |publisher= Outside In |accessdate= December 1, 2015}}</ref> Outside In's medical clinic was the [[medical home]] for 5,384 people in 2014.<ref name="Report" /> The same year, the group's [[Needle exchange programme|syringe exchange]] served 4,322 people.<ref name="Report" /> |
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The organization's tattoo removal service is a restricted eligibility service offered at an off-site location at 1719 W Burnside St. Access is restricted to applicants with an income not exceeding 200% [[federal poverty guideline]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://outsidein.org/index.php/medical-services-tattoo-removal/|title=Medical Services - Tattoo Removal|website=OutsideIn|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-13}}</ref> |
The organization's tattoo removal service is a restricted eligibility service offered at an off-site location at 1719 W Burnside St. Access is restricted to applicants with an income not exceeding 200% [[federal poverty guideline]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://outsidein.org/index.php/medical-services-tattoo-removal/|title=Medical Services - Tattoo Removal|website=OutsideIn|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-13}}</ref> |
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Formation | 1968 |
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Type | 501(c)(3) |
Registration no. | EIN 93-0567549 |
Headquarters | 1132 SW 13th Avenue |
Location |
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Executive Director | Patricia Patrón[1] |
Budget (2018) | about $12 million[2] |
Staff | about 170 (2018)[2] |
Website | outsidein |
Outside In is a medical and youth service nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon which provides primary care and "wraparound services" for low income and homeless clients.[5] So that they can improve their health and move towards self-sufficiency.[6] It also has several other programs such as needle exchange program for drug addicts, and eligibility restricted tattoo removal service. Founded in the late 1960s to serve youth, the organization has since continued to revise its services to meet the needs of its clients.[7][8] Its services as described in October 2014 include medical care, mobile medical vans, tattoo removal, housing, education, counseling, and job training.[9]
History
Outside In was founded in June 1968 by Dr. Charles Spray, Arnold Goldberg, and Mary Lu Zurcher as one of the first free community health clinics in the U.S. and one of the earliest on the West Coast, along with the Haight Ashbury Free Clinics and the Los Angeles Free Clinic.[7][10][11] The organization was founded to serve Portland's "alienated youth", some of whom had substance abuse problems and most of whom had mental health issues.[8] It initially rented its Downtown Portland space from the First Unitarian Church of Portland.[8] Spray helped found the organization after learning that the Unitarian church's youth coffeehouse space, Charix, was in danger of being shut down by the city and a group that had successfully shut down the Crystal Ballroom music venue because of its association with the 1960s drug culture.[11]
Some of the group's early work involved staffing a 24-hour crisis hotline that was later spun off to form the Metro Crisis Intervention Service.[10]
In November 2017, two staff members were stabbed on the job;[12] as a result, in May 2018 the workers of Outside In voted to unionize, with Oregon AFSCME as their parent union.[2][13]
In April 2019, it has announced that it is expanding to add a second location in Gresham near NE 162nd and Burnside which will open Spring of 2020 for transients and low income people. According to its development director, Outside In helps "unique populations that are not well-served in other health care settings,".[5] Willamette Week reported in April 2019 that Outside In employees are members of AFSCME along with a handful of other private nonprofits heavily funded by government contracts.[14]
Services
Outside In is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and a licensed mental health agency.[jargon][7] Outside In operates a needle exchange for drug addicts.[15] The syringe exchange, implemented in 1989, was the first one to be developed and the third to go into operation in the country. [16] The needle exchange program has been operating a street heroin testing service for about two years as told to Oregon Public Broadcasting in September 2019 by Haven Wheelock who runs the needle exchange program at Outside In. Drug possession continues to be strictly illegal even though sergeant Brad Yakots with the Portland Police Bureau said it won't prioritize enforcement against people having their drugs tested.[17] In 2013–2014, the organization self reported it served 966 youth with mental health care, drug and alcohol treatment, employment, education, job training, and housing.[18] Outside In's medical clinic was the medical home for 5,384 people in 2014.[18] The same year, the group's syringe exchange served 4,322 people.[18]
The organization's tattoo removal service is a restricted eligibility service offered at an off-site location at 1719 W Burnside St. Access is restricted to applicants with an income not exceeding 200% federal poverty guideline.[19]
Community Objection
The needle exchange program offered through Outside In and Multnomah County was the subject of a grievance by the adjacent neighborhood Goose Hollow Foothills League due to concerns that needles handed out by Outside In are littered in Goose Hollow by its drug addict clients. The neighborhood association sent a letter on the matter of needles and other supplies given out by Outside In to a Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran in February 2018. This letter was published in part in Portland Tribune
"We are drowning in the needles put out into the community by Multnomah County," said a letter complaining about the health department program that was sent to Commissioner Sharon Meieran by the Goose Hollow Foothills League last month. "Our residents are picking up hundreds of needles each week," the letter states. "Our neighborhood has experienced a shocking increase in unsafe and unsanitary levels of needles since MCHD started this program ... while keeping drug addicts safer, MCHD is risking the health of thousands more with this program. "Our neighborhood is also filled with bloody cotton balls and feces-covered wipes that were given out at Outside In," added the letter, which was signed by Tracy Prince, the league's vice chair. "It is humane and necessary to hand out these items, but MCHD should put a plan in place so that these items aren't disposed of in our neighborhoods."[20]
Medical services
In addition to the FQHC, Outside In's medical clinic operates two medical outreach vans and a school-based health center at Milwaukie High School.[21][22][better source needed]
Job training programs
"Bespoke" is bicycle-powered smoothie cart set up in Portland's O'Bryant Square that gives homeless youth on-the-job training.[23]
In 2005 the organization set up Virginia Woof, a non-profit dog daycare centre to provide training and employment for their clients. It operates in two locations.[21][24]
See also
References
- ^ "Leadership team". OutsideIn. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ a b c "At Outside In, an overwhelming vote to unionize". nwLaborPress. 22 May 2018.
- ^ "Outside In". OutsideIn.
- ^ Teig, Randy (27 April 2017). "Neighborhood Training Community Response to Livability Issues" (PDF). Bureau of Police, Portland Oregon. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 April 2019.
Multnomah County is the governmental body that funds the exchange program. There are five documented needle exchanges on the Multnomah County web pege:i. outside in 1219 sw Main st .......
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- ^ a b c "About Us". Outside In. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
- ^ a b c Turner, Kernan R. (July 24, 1969). "Outside-In Director Can Cite Ear-Ringing Drug Statistics". The Register-Guard. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
- ^ Ritchie, Rachel (October 23, 2014). "Lifetime Achievement: Kathy Oliver of Outside In". Portland Monthly. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
- ^ a b "Outside In Clinic celebrates 20 Years of Health, Social Services". The Oregonian. September 9, 1988.
- ^ a b Olsen, Polina (2012). Outside In From the Ground Up. Charleston, SC: The History Press. pp. 77–79. ISBN 9781609494711.
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- ^ McCullough, Mark. "128 Oregon Workers Say Yes to AFSCME". AFSCME. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
- ^ Furlan, Elise (April 17, 2019). "A Nonprofit Aiding Refugees Epitomizes Portland Values. What Happens When Its Workers Want a Union?". Willamette Week. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
Employees at Central City Concern, Volunteers of America, Outside In, and Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, all private nonprofits heavily funded by government contracts, are also AFSCME members.
- ^ Korn, Peter (June 12, 2004). "Life-saving overdose drug gains street cred". Portland Tribune.
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- ^ The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being. Routledge. 2015.
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- ^ "Medical Services - Tattoo Removal". OutsideIn. Retrieved 2019-04-13.
- ^ Budnick, Nick (March 8, 2018). "Used syringes litter Portland as needle exchanges grow". Portland Tribune. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
- ^ a b Sparling, Zane (3 July 2018). "Outside In's longtime director wraps up job". Portland Tribune. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
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- ^ Binder, Melissa (September 23, 2014). "Homeless Youth Get Job Experience Making Bike-Powered Smoothies for 'Social Juice-stice'". The Oregonian. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
- ^ Balas, Monique (13 November 2011). "Pet Talk: Day care serves dogs, trains people". The Oregonian. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
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