Testimonials

"I was able to get myself of the streets and given the opportunity for job training. I'm now in a work force development program."
--Shelly

"I've been given a chance for success in my life"
--Holly

"Thanks to the shelter, I had a safe place when I was bettered and was helped to move on with my life. I'm learning to be self-sufficient and independent"
--Michelle

Clackamas Women’s Shelter

“I thank God as well as for the people and shelters that have planted the seed in me needed to break away from the vicious cycle. Without all of you, I would not be here today.”
--Alice

Rafael House
"I would never have dreamed this to be the outcome! Safe, secure and my own home.  Thank you and god bless you all for your support and kindness.  You are all awesome."
"Everybody was awesome and were extremely helpful and supportive to me."

Adelante Mujeres
“I now feel like I am a leader, that I have the skills to facilitate a group of people and help to set goals and accomplish them. I am so grateful to Adelante Mujeres.
-- Carmen Alvarado

“In the past I never read with my children, nor did I pay much attention when they spoke to me. We now read together all the time. I’ve even taught my husband how important it is to listen to our children and talk with them.”  
--Margarita Plancarte

“Before joining Adelante Mujeres, I was home alone and always depressed. Now I believe in myself. I have even started my own business caring for children. I can speak English to my children’s teachers and I have learned that I have something to say about the future of my family.”
-- Rosa Gonzalez
 
NW Portland Ministries
Honorene is typical of the passengers we serve.  80% of our riders are frail elderly women.  Most do not have family available to take them to needed appointments.  We serve as that extended family. 
-- NW Portland Ministries

Reliable, safe transportation is the lifeblood to many of our neighbors. Honorene depends on Northwest Portland Ministries to drive her to physical therapy sessions at OHSU and the YWCA. NWPM has become her extended family since her adult children live out of the area. 
-- NW Portland Ministries

“Northwest Portland Ministries is there for me all the time and their drivers are the best!”
--Honorene Lanning
“We have been recipients of your generosity over 3 years, supporting our transportation program.  We have had wonderful guidance from TACS to move in the direction of becoming self-sustaining.  Thank you so much for believing in us and the work we do.
-- Delanie Delimont, Executive Director

Catholic Charities Housing Transitions Program
When Housing Transitions first began housing homeless women, two thirds of the women we met were not chronically homeless - “homeless enough” to qualify for these funds. The Portland Women’s Foundation has enabled us to house more than twenty of these women each year, and 92% of them remain housed.
-- Margi Dechenne, Program Manager