Dignity Village

Hello friends, we will be merging our new page with our old page here. So we're posting some highlights, links, and photos from the last year or so:

Nov 12, 2024 our Board Chair Lisa Larson and Village Program Specialist Victory LaFara presented to the County Board of Commissioners on the Micro Village Expansion Project. We were part of a community based participatory qualitative research study on villages, interviewing 120 villagers from 9 villages. The data revealed a comprehensive list of best and worst practices and more clearly defined development and program/service designs for villages. Our hope is to improve shelter practices and create more real village model shelters with better support from communities and government. Villages highlighted in the presentation were Dignity Village, Hazelnut Grove, R2DToo, St Johns, Kenton Womens, and Parkrose Village.
To clarify, the MVEP research does not support the practices of TASS, SRV, Sunstone Way/AGNW, or Urban Alchemy. The wide misuse of "village" has been an unfortunate misnomer that is confusing both policymakers and the public. This research should not be taken as an endorsement of those very different shelter models. See the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn3s8VtxpKY
Read the summary report on recommendations here: https://www.microvillagespdx.org/

AFSCME Local 1790 JOIN Alliance of Workers came out and helped us start repainting the Commons. Bye-bye budget white; hello cheerful green! If you happen to have a 5 gallon container of a blue that might pair well or some funds to buy it, we'd love to finish the whole Commons to protect the siding before the wet weather really settles in.

Going camping this weekend? Got a backyard fire pit? You can support Dignity Village by purchasing firewood from our micro business. We process logs (dropped off from Metro and other services that clear downed trees) into seasoned fire wood.

Plus some cat photos and pics of various village projects and a cool double rainbow