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‘No one is left behind’: Clark County couple dish out hot meals, human touch to unhoused

February 14, 2025, 6:07am Clark County News

Sandy Curtis and Kalani Moe popped open the hatchback of their car and, in a practiced rhythm, unloaded a canopy, a folding table, and two steaming Crock-Pots. Read story

Point-in-Time Count workers collect data, offer resources to Clark County’s homeless

January 31, 2025, 2:01pm Clark County News

A team of outreach workers moved through an east Vancouver homeless camp Thursday as dawn’s first light touched the horizon. Read story

Contributed by the Vancouver Police Department 
 Vancouver police and the Homeless Assistance Resource Team are partnering in encampment cleanups. The partnership will help police officers feel confident in responding to homelessness and help HART in connecting campers with resources.

Vancouver police spending more time on outreach in homeless camps

Contributed by the Vancouver Police Department 
 Vancouver police and the Homeless Assistance Resource Team are partnering in encampment cleanups. The partnership will help police officers feel confident in responding to homelessness and help HART in connecting campers with resources.

January 25, 2025, 6:12am Clark County News

Vancouver police officers are spending more time in homeless encampments under a new partnership between the department and the city’s Homeless Assistance and Resource Team. Read story

A flimsy tarp provides little shelter during a winter rainstorm for those camping Feb. 8, 2024, in downtown Vancouver.

Clark County homelessness task force changes winter shelter response threshold from 32 to 36 degrees

A flimsy tarp provides little shelter during a winter rainstorm for those camping Feb. 8, 2024, in downtown Vancouver.

January 21, 2025, 6:05am Clark County Health

Residents at a downtown Vancouver encampment described the cold weather Thursday as debilitating. The campers huddled around fires and wrapped themselves in blankets to try to stave off the biting chill that was deepened by fitful winds and slight rain. Read story

Columbia River Mental Health Services, 6926 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd., offers mental health and addiction treatment. It will launch the first mobile addiction treatment clinic in Southwest Washington.

Columbia River Mental Health Services aims to have a new mobile clinic up and running later this year

Columbia River Mental Health Services, 6926 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd., offers mental health and addiction treatment. It will launch the first mobile addiction treatment clinic in Southwest Washington.

January 18, 2025, 6:12am Clark County Health

People living in homeless camps struggle to access drug treatment in Clark County, contributing to a wave of overdose deaths. A new program seeks to fix that. Read story

In partnership with Council for the Homeless, the Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program was recently awarded about $1.7 million in federal funding to use toward preventing evictions and homelessness.

Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program, Council for Homeless get $1.7M to help prevent evictions, homlessness

In partnership with Council for the Homeless, the Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program was recently awarded about $1.7 million in federal funding to use toward preventing evictions and homelessness.

January 10, 2025, 6:07am Clark County News

The Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program, in partnership with Council for the Homeless, recently received about $1.7 million in federal funding to use toward preventing evictions and homelessness. Read story

LEADOPTION Kiggins Village residents Joey Gagnier, left, and his mom, Tammy, spent about 12 years homeless. Tammy Gagnier would tell her son, “as long as we have each other and the dogs, everything will work out.” The two will move into housing in January.

After a year, Vancouver’s Kiggins Village Safe Stay shelter can point to its successes

LEADOPTION Kiggins Village residents Joey Gagnier, left, and his mom, Tammy, spent about 12 years homeless. Tammy Gagnier would tell her son, “as long as we have each other and the dogs, everything will work out.” The two will move into housing in January.

December 28, 2024, 6:14am Clark County News

Last December, Joey Gagnier told an outreach worker that he was tired of living his life the way it was going. He wanted better for his life: a home for his family, consisting of his mother and their three dogs. Read story

Washougal High School senior Emily Bishop displays one of several feminine hygiene kits she has created to donate to local homeless organizations.

Washougal high school senior gathering hygiene supplies for the homeless

Washougal High School senior Emily Bishop displays one of several feminine hygiene kits she has created to donate to local homeless organizations.

December 28, 2024, 6:07am Clark County News

Working at Round Table Pizza in Camas, Emily Bishop has learned about the challenges people facing homelessness struggle with on a daily basis. Read story

Friends of the Carpenter Executive Director Mike Hammond looks over items made by those who spend time at the nonprofit in Vancouver’s Fruit Valley neighborhood. Hammond took over the nonprofit in April with the goal to open the space for people who may be socially excluded from other woodworking spaces.

‘A space for everybody’: Friends of the Carpenter looks to rejuvenate space, expand services

Friends of the Carpenter Executive Director Mike Hammond looks over items made by those who spend time at the nonprofit in Vancouver’s Fruit Valley neighborhood. Hammond took over the nonprofit in April with the goal to open the space for people who may be socially excluded from other woodworking spaces.

December 25, 2024, 6:10am Churches & Religion

Laughter filled the air as guests assembled small wood crosses on a recent afternoon at Friends of the Carpenter in Vancouver’s Fruit Valley neighborhood. Staff and volunteers circulated to chat with participants and offer homemade cupcakes. Read story

Attendees hold candles during the Homeless Persons Memorial Day event Dec. 21, 2023, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in downtown Vancouver.

‘These folks exist’: Memorial for 53 people in the homeless community will be Saturday in downtown Vancouver

Attendees hold candles during the Homeless Persons Memorial Day event Dec. 21, 2023, at St. Paul Lutheran Church in downtown Vancouver.

December 19, 2024, 2:23pm Clark County News

The annual Homeless Persons Memorial Day on Saturday in downtown Vancouver will honor those who died in the past year. Read story