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Unexpected and traumatic events such as the pandemic revealed the urgent need for culturally appropriate mental health services for Oregon’s Latinx and indigenous communities. These circumstances also brought their strength to the...  Read More

Jayden Asumendi spent most of the last school year away from his peers, doing his schoolwork at his home in the Roseburg area. And, like many of his peers, Jayden struggled in the new learning atmosphere, looking forward to returning to...  Read More

In the wake of 2020's devastating Slater Fire, a group of leaders in Happy Camp, California and the Karuk Tribe rallied to fill a critical void in their community: child care. Although the lack of child care was already an issue before the...  Read More

Nestled on the western slopes of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, east of the ridge that separates Highway 203 from North Powder, five students and two local ranchers plot their morning’s work.Maurizio Valerio, field coordinator for...  Read More

In 2016, Mario Jimenez Sifuentez published Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest. His book shares the story of Mexican immigrants who, out of view of most Oregonians, became the foundation of our agriculture economy...  Read More

The word border is infused with a wealth of meaning. For some, it is a physical line, for others a political separation. It is all that to Portland artist  – but it is a lot more.“Borders are a very specific form of separation,” says...  Read More

This article is reprinted with gratitude to The Daily Yonder. See original article by Adilia Watson here.A new Oregon network is knitting together the state’s small number of Black rural residents into a larger system of support.The Black...  Read More

With the blessing of founding members, a board vote, and a membership vote, the Ford Scholar Alumni Association dissolved as an independent nonprofit and moved under the umbrella of The Ford Family Foundation. The 13 former members of the...  Read More