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December, 19, 2007
Letter to the Editor. Reacting to news reports
of Clackamas County’s gang actifity, MFS Board Member, Dr. Yves Lefranc,
recommends community participation.
December, 17, 2007
Metropolitan Family Service Holiday Cheer and Holiday Toy Store bring Joy to
Families and Older Adults in Need. Volunteers and staff give
generously of their time and talents at Metropolitan Family Service during
the holiday season.
November, 7, 2007
Each day
in Clackamas County, thousands of families struggle to make ends meet. They worry about feeding their families or finding
childcare while they go to work. They don’t have time to worry about
non-essential expenses like family portraits.
October 2007
SUN Schools Sponsor Pumpkin Lights On AfterSchool
Event This year, the
Metropolitan Family Service SUN Schools after school programs hosted the
area’s Lights On AfterSchool celebrations, featuring several hundred former
and current program participants at Dexter Middle School and Shaver
Elementary.
September 2007
SUN Programs Lead to Educational Success SUN in East County is a program of Metropolitan Family Service. It
offers kids a safe place to spend after-school hours and participate in
anarray of academic and recreational activities.
August 14, 2007
Students Travel Back in Time During
Community Program Time travel was the
theme for a collaborative effort of Metropolitan Family Service, Multnomah
County and the Centennial School District during the summer SUN School
program. Students, in grades first through sixth, moved from room to room,
learning about such eras as the Roaring ’20s, the Middle Ages and America’s
colonial era.
August 7, 2007
Neighborhood Night Out Picnic at Harold Oliver School A
picnic and live performances will highlight this year’s National Night Out.
The event is planned for 5:30 to 8 p.m. Aug. 7 at Harold Oliver Primary
School, and is sponsored by Metropolitan Family Service, City of Portland
Neighborhood Grants Program and Centennial Community Association. It is
designed to build neighborhood connections and build safer communities
through awareness.
June 4, 2007
Project
Linkage to Schedule Rides to Farmers Market.
Are you a senior or disabled? This summer, a fledgling
service is expanding to provide rides to local farmers markets. Ride
Connection and other transit providers will be offering rides from several
locations.
May 30, 2007
Gates
Foundation Awards Grant to Metropolitan Family Service.
Students at 11
high-poverty schools in the Portland tri-county area will benefit from a
three-year grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
April 27, 2007
Foster
Grandmother Named Top Volunteer.
An 84-year-0ld Rose City Park
grandmother has been named Volunteer of the Year by Metropolitan Family
Service. "Grandma" Sybil Barker, a full-time volunteer, has pitched in
as a foster grandparent for seven years at the Center for Medically Fragile
Children at Providence Child Center, where she works with children with
severe neurological disabilities. She has also served as a volunteer
for 13 years at Waverly Children's Home, where she worked the evening shift,
helping young victims of child abuse get ready for bed.
March 1, 2007
Grandma Carol and Grandma Marge know how to draw a crowd
at
the Barlow Head Start preschool on the outskirts of Canby.
From the comfort of her classroom rocking chair, Carol Luce — whom the
children call Grandma Carol — plays games and works puzzles with her
3-to-5-yearold charges. Across the hall, the other “grandma,” Marjorie
Crawford, is the go-to expert when the youngsters need help making yarn
crafts. Even outside the Head Start building, the children instantly
recognize Luce and Crawford. “Sometimes in the stores they see you and they
run to you,” Crawford says. Luce, 74, and Crawford, 77, who both live in
Canby, are volunteers with the Foster Grandparent program run by
Metropolitan Family Service, an agency serving Clackamas, Multnomah and
Washington counties.
February 2007
At 92, MFS Volunteer Grandma Cherry just can't stop helping
kids
Cherry Hendrix says there are days when it's hard to muster
the energy for another full day of helping children. "At my age, sometimes I
have to force myself to go," she says with a laugh. But when she sees adults
she worked with when they were children --and now they have children in
grade school -- and they say "Hi Grandma Cherry, you still at Woodlawn?" And
then look at their children and say, "That's my Grandma Cherry." "Right
there, that puts two, three more years on my life," says Hendrix.
More
January 2007
MFS Launches Health Education Programs
Metropolitan Family Service
was recently awarded a $636,600 grant from the US Department of Education,
to establish an expanded physical education program at four schools in
Reynolds School District.
More
December 8, 2006
Reynolds gets help with PE classes
Twenty-two minutes a day. Two and a half hours a week. That’s all it takes to meet the U.S. Secretary of Education’s physical activity recommendation, but many children aren’t getting it.
November 29, 2006
During Thanksgiving week,
Metropolitan Family Service joined thousands of people and organizations across the United States to celebrate National Family Week.
September 21, 2006
Rowe students will get new after-school outlets
Students at Rowe Middle School in will have new ways to stay busy after school starting Oct. 2, thanks to a $135,000 grant to expand after-school programs.
August 3, 2006
The SUN Schools Program
This past spring I graduated from H.B. Lee Middle School. One of my favorite things to do there was to go to the Schools Uniting Neighborhoods program after school.
August 3, 2006
In East County, SUN Bridges Cultural Gaps
For nearly two days, students at H.B. Lee Middle School made rockets from plastic bottles. Now, it was time --after all they had learned about inertia and gravity -- to launch the rockets high into the sky next to the east Portland school.
June 2, 2006
Students flock to new SUN school at Lynch Wood
Lynch Wood 21st Century SUN Community school is the newest addition of MFS SUN schools in East County.
May 10, 2006
Rylie's Among the Luck Ones MFS
celebrates our newest after-school
program at Lot
Whitcomb Elementary with a community open house. Funding for the program came from 21st Century Community Learning Center.
January 27, 2006
Whitcomb gives Students a Place to go
MFS expands to the North Clackamas District with a new after school program at Lot Whitcomb, where the attendance area has one of the highest rates of crime of any elementary school boundary in Clackamas County.
February 5, 2006
MFS Launches Ways to Work
A national program, operated locally by MFS,
began providing loans in spring of
2005 for repair, purchase, or
maintenance of a car for
transportation needs associated with
work and child care.
February 15, 2005
Health and Fitness
Fairs and Nutrition Classes
MFS is providing health outreach for
low-income families in Multnomah
County through health and fitness
fairs and nutrition classes.
March
17, 2005
MFS Arts Education
Classes Rock
MFS SUN offers music and art classes.
Participation in after-school art
classes have shown a significant
influence on academic achievement.
May
19, 2005
MFS SUN Expands to
Two New Schools
MFS SUN expanded school-based services
in spring of 2005 in two traditionally
underserved, low-income communities.
Afternoon and evening classes are now
available for students and family
members at Harold Oliver Primary and Glenfair
Elementary.
May 19, 2005
MFS Expands
School-based Services
MFS community school programs added
services to two new schools in April
2005.
Leveraging the funds from Multnomah
County's school-age policy
framework, MFS has secured two new
federal grants to operate after school
programs at Glenfair Elementary in the
Reynolds District and Harold Oliver
Primary in the Centennial district.
July
27, 2005
MFS SUN Summer
Camps Shine
MFS SUN Community Schools offered summer
classes for students in all SUN
schools. Dexter McCarty Middle
School created a mural as a part of
the summer activities.
August 15, 2005
MFS Class Helps
Latinos Manage diabetes
Providence Health System, United Way,
and private contributions enable
Providence and MFS to co-facilitate a
weekly diabetes class in Spanish for
Latinos.
October 27, 2005
Snapshot of a
Community
MFS kicked of National Family Week with
Family Portraits. National Family
Week celebrates families, their
connections to one another, and
their connections to communities.
November 24, 2005
Loans Put
Employees on Road to Work
National Ways to Work, operated locally
be MFS, helps employees with
affordable car loans for repair,
refinance, and purchase for work and
childcare transportation.
Loan Industry:
Exploitation runs rampant
In response to The Oregonian article,
"Quick cash leads to debt," Robert
McKean, past MFS Board Chair, responded
with a letter to the editor.
Creativity and Recycling Combine at MFS
SUN
At Dexter McCarty Middle School, SUN
offers a variety of interesting classes.
One class, a bike part recycling class
where kids make art from old bike parts
was featured in The Oregonian.
August 6, 2004
Krista Larson, MFS Executive
Director, Profiled
Krista Larson shares her business
philosophy and more in a Business
Journal profile.
December 2, 2004
MFS Experience Corps Adds New Schools
A national program, operated locally by
MFS, provides mentoring and tutoring for
elementary students. The program
expanded in 2004 when MFS received
additional funding from the City of
Portland's Children Investment Fund.
MFS Classic Wines Auction Celebrates
20th Year
Each year thousands of low-income individuals benefit from the support
MFS receives through the Classic Wines
Auction. In its 20th year in 2005, the
fifth largest charity wine auction in
America raised more than $10 million in
the past 20 years.
Fun in the SUN 3/04
Schools Uniting Neighborhoods adds
additional schools.
One day each year, volunteers say:
Smile! 10/03
More than 100 low-income families
who receive services from MFS had
family portraits taken by volunteer
photographers.
Resources help the helpers 1/03
The Portland Observer featured MFS caregivers.
Nimble Agency Carves Out a New Niche
8/02
The Alliance for Children and Families recognizes MFS and its innovative, results-oriented programs
in its quarterly magazine.

2005
Classic Wines Auction sets Record for Charities 3/05
2004 National Family Week and Family Portraits 9/04 2004 MFS Volunteer Recognition Event 8/04
2004 Tom Stoel Award Honors John von
Schlegell 4/04
MFS SUN Expansion Serves 1,500
Additional Children and Their
Families 3/04
2003 19th Annual MFS Classic Wines Auction Raises $1.2 million 3/03
Social Venture Partners Donates $40,000 to Metropolitan
Family Service 3/03
Faith in Action Grant Supports Services for Older Adults 3/03
Ron Yoder Award for Service Excellence 1/03
2002 National Family Week Media Advisory 10/02
MFS Receives Grant from Oregon Community Foundation 9/02
Thomas Stoel Award for Volunteer Commitment to Community 6/02
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