weaving loss into life
Portland-Based Resources
Raceme Farm Collective
These three black- and brown-owned farm businesses make plant-based delights to help your whole family feel whole and nourished.
The 18th Avenue Peace House
This house is the site of a variety of ministries focused on radical hospitality, community, peace-making, and care for the dying.
Oregon Funeral Resources & Education
This free resource includes lots of death-focused grief ritual resources. Check out their "Stories" page for grief/death ritual examples from real Oregonians.
Portland Therapy Center
Click here to see a long list of groups and clinicians who specialize in loss and grief.
Taking Ownership PDX
This community collective of contractors, realtors, neighbors, and businesses come together to renovate Black-owned homes, allowing for the generation of wealth.
In This Together
This free program supports children, teens and families who have experienced the death of someone close to them.
Village Gardens
This Portland-based project is remarkable. I couldn’t love a project more. Please click here to learn more about it.
Janus Youth Services
This organization offers help for homeless and at-risk youth in Oregon and Southern Washington. Click here for more information.
GriefShare
Find a weekly grief recovery group near you.
Hospice Resources
Click here to see a list of associations and organizations that provide hospice and palliative care in the Portland area.
The Dougy Center
This organization provides support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults and their families grieving a death or facing a serious illness can share their experiences.
Seed & Thistle Apothecary
This apothecary's Brown Girls Rise project seeks to cultivate a radical sisterhood of girls of color who reclaim their connection to body, community, land, health, and creativity.
Providence Support Groups
Providence Hospice offers free bereavement support groups for both children and adults, with the possibility for an individualized support plan.
Alcoholics Anonymous Portland
Get information on the over 400 weekly meetings offered by the Portland Area Intergroup.
De Paul Treatment Centers
De Paul provides a wide range of addiction and mental health treatment services to men, women, youth and families.
Hooper Detoxification Stabilization Center
Hooper Detox provides withdrawal management and stabilization services for people seeking treatment for substance abuse.
Blanchet House
This organization offers food, shelter and aid to anyone who may need it.
Narcotics Anonymous Portland
View the meetings offered by the greater Portland area chapter of NA.
Wapato Island Farm
This women-owned organic farm on Sauvie Island teaches folk herbalism and permaculture practices to rediscover ancestral traditions.
Oregon Food Bank
OFB coordinates a statewide network of 21 regional food banks and over 1,400 food assistance sites.
Community Alliance of Tenants (CAT)
The CAT is Oregon's only statewide tenant-rights organization, and seeks to educate and empower tenants to demand safe, stable and affordable rental homes.
Central City Concern
CCC serves adults and families in the Portland metro area who are impacted by poverty, homelessness and addictions.
Oxford House
Oxford House supports democratically run, self-supporting and drug free homes.
Feed the Mass
The only nonprofit cooking school in Portland, Feed the Mass provides meals and affordable cooking classes to its communities.
Portland Rescue Mission
This nonprofit provides food, shelter, and recovery programs for people experiencing homelessness.