The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is an educational program with an innovative pedagogical approach tailored to effectively facilitate dialogue across difference. It originated as a means of bringing together campus-based college students with incarcerated students for a semester-long course held in a prison, jail or other correctional setting.

History

OUR MISSION

Campus Compact of Oregon convenes and supports the work of educational institutions individually and collectively to improve their practice around institutional equity, collaborative learning, and community engagement to respond effectively to a racially diverse and changing Oregon.

OUR VISION

Our members provide inclusive and equitable learning opportunities that strengthen communities and empower our students to be agents for positive change.

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Mission

JOIN exists to support the efforts of homeless individuals and families to transition out of homelessness into permanent housing. Our efforts are directed at individuals sleeping outside or in their car in the Portland Metro area. Our service provision is not dependent on age, gender, race, ethnicity, faith, culture, language, sexual identity, specific diagnosis, or identifiable issue.

Partners in Nature

Partners team up with Metro to connect diverse communities with nature.

https://www.oregonmetro.gov/tools-partners/grants-and-resources/partners...

EMERJ-SafeNow. EMERJ-SafeNow develops and delivers culturally
specific trauma-informed personal safety education in collaboration with
communities, to ensure everyone, especially vulnerable, adults, children
and families, has access to resources, training and skills on topics related
to violence prevention. Read more at emerjsafenow.org. Our primary
partners here will be Carolyne Haycraft, M.Ed., MFA, Co-Founder and
Executive Director  and Aman Weaver, Facilitator and Curriculum Development Specialist. We may also collaborate with other members

Domestic Violence Safe Dialogue. DVSD’s mission is to stop the cycle of
domestic violence by facilitating safe, supervised conversations between
survivors and offenders who have never met before, which help both
parties foster transformative change inside themselves and others. After 18
years as a stand alone program, DVSD went under the umbrella of
Lutheran Community Services (lcsnw.org) on July 1, 2018. Lutheran
Community Services Northwest helps vulnerable children, families,

Pathways to Safety International (PSI) is a Portland based organization working with Americans in foreign countries to provide domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse advocacy, resources and tools so that they can navigate the complicated jurisdictional, legal and social international landscapes, to be able to live their lives free of abuse either in the foreign country or back in the United States.