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===Medical services===
===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]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/399797-294206-outside-ins-longtime-director-wraps-up-job|title=Outside In's longtime director wraps up job|last=Sparling|first=Zane|date=3 July 2018|website=Portland Tribune|language=en-gb|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref name=Medical>{{cite web |url= http://www.outsidein.org/medical-services.htm |title= Medical Services |publisher= Outside In |accessdate= December 1, 2015}}</ref>{{Better source|date=April 2019}}
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]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://portlandtribune.com/pt/9-news/399797-294206-outside-ins-longtime-director-wraps-up-job|title=Outside In's longtime director wraps up job|last=Sparling|first=Zane|date=3 July 2018|website=Portland Tribune|language=en-gb|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=13 April 2019}}</ref><ref name=Medical>{{cite web |url= http://www.outsidein.org/medical-services.htm |title= Medical Services |publisher= Outside In |accessdate= December 1, 2015}}</ref>{{Better source|date=April 2019}}


==Job training programs==
==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.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/09/homeless_youth_get_job_experie.html |title= Homeless Youth Get Job Experience Making Bike-Powered Smoothies for 'Social Juice-stice' |last= Binder |first= Melissa |date= September 23, 2014 |newspaper= The Oregonian |accessdate= December 1, 2015}}</ref>
"Bespoke" is bicycle-powered [[smoothie]] cart set up in Portland's [[O'Bryant Square]] that gives homeless youth on-the-job training.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2014/09/homeless_youth_get_job_experie.html |title= Homeless Youth Get Job Experience Making Bike-Powered Smoothies for 'Social Juice-stice' |last= Binder |first= Melissa |date= September 23, 2014 |newspaper= The Oregonian |accessdate= December 1, 2015}}</ref>

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.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/pets/2011/11/pet_talk_day_care_serves_dogs.html|title=Pet Talk: Day care serves dogs, trains people|last=Balas|first=Monique|date=13 November 2011|website=The Oregonian|language=en-US|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=13 April 2019}}</ref>


== See also ==
== See also ==

Revision as of 09:31, 13 April 2019

Outside In
Formation1968
Type501(c)(3)
Registration no.EIN 93-0567549
Headquarters1132 SW 13th Avenue
Location
  • Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Executive Director
Patricia Patrón[1]
Budget (2018)
$12 million[citation needed]
Staff
190[2]
Websiteoutsidein.org
Exterior of "Outside In IDU Health Services" at 1219 SW Main St which provides services for drug addicts and hosts the Multnomah County sponsored needle exchange. It is on the First Unitarian Church of Portland property and attached to the church's building. It is a block away from their main clinic.

Outside In is a nonprofit organization in Portland, Oregon, United States that provides social and medical services to homeless youth and other marginalized people (including the LGBTQ community)[4] so that they can improve their health and move towards self-sufficiency.[5] Founded in the late 1960s to serve youth, the organization has since continued to revise its services to meet the needs of its clients.[6][7] Its services as described in October 2014 include medical care, mobile medical vans, tattoo removal, housing, education, counseling, and job training.[2]

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.[6][8][9] 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.[7] It initially rented its Downtown Portland space from the First Unitarian Church of Portland.[7] 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.[9]

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.[8]

In November 2017, two staff members were stabbed on the job;[10] as a result, in May 2018 the workers of Outside In voted to unionize, with Oregon ASFCME as their parent union.[11][12]

Services

Outside In is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and a licensed mental health agency.[6] In 2013–2014, the organization served 966 youth with mental health care, drug and alcohol treatment, employment, education, job training, and housing.[13] Outside In's medical clinic was the medical home for 5,384 people in 2014.[13] The same year, the group's syringe exchange served 4,322 people.[13] The syringe exchange, implemented in 1989, was the first one to be developed and the third to go into operation in the country.[14]

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."[15]

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.[16][17][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.[18]

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.[16][19]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Leadership team". OutsideIn. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  2. ^ a b Ritchie, Rachel (October 23, 2014). "Lifetime Achievement: Kathy Oliver of Outside In". Portland Monthly. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  3. ^ "Outside In". OutsideIn.
  4. ^ Morris, Alex (September 3, 2014). "The Forsaken: A Rising Number of Homeless Gay Teens Are Being Cast Out by Religious Families". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  5. ^ "Outside In". Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  6. ^ a b c "About Us". Outside In. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ a b "Outside In Clinic celebrates 20 Years of Health, Social Services". The Oregonian. September 9, 1988.
  9. ^ a b Olsen, Polina (2012). Outside In From the Ground Up. Charleston, SC: The History Press. pp. 77–79. ISBN 9781609494711. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  10. ^ "Two wounded in stabbing at Portland nonprofit". KGW.
  11. ^ "At Outside In, an overwhelming vote to unionize". nwLaborPress. 22 May 2018.
  12. ^ McCullough, Mark. "128 Oregon Workers Say Yes to AFSCME". AFSCME. Retrieved 2019-04-09.
  13. ^ a b c "Director's Data Report: 2013–2014" (PDF). Outside In. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  14. ^ The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being. Routledge. 2015. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ Budnick, Nick (March 8, 2018). "Used syringes litter Portland as needle exchanges grow". Portland Tribune. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
  16. ^ a b Sparling, Zane (3 July 2018). "Outside In's longtime director wraps up job". Portland Tribune. Retrieved 13 April 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  17. ^ "Medical Services". Outside In. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  18. ^ Binder, Melissa (September 23, 2014). "Homeless Youth Get Job Experience Making Bike-Powered Smoothies for 'Social Juice-stice'". The Oregonian. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  19. ^ Balas, Monique (13 November 2011). "Pet Talk: Day care serves dogs, trains people". The Oregonian. Retrieved 13 April 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
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