Preble Street

“Elaine rosen judy bertram director director sisters”

“Preble street's independent auditors prepared the form 990, a draft was then reviewed by the chief operating officer and sent to the full board of directors for review.”

“Preble street regularly monitors and enforces such issues when they arise through a culture of understanding and honesty through the board of directors to all parts of the organization.”

“The preble street executive committee met to review and determine the executive director's compensation. They assessed compensation from two perspectives. First, market, then performance. For market, they used the maine association of nonprofit (manp) salary survey most recently published. They paid close attention to the average of all executive director's salaries in maine and the average of executive director's salaries within the same fiscal categories of preble street. In the performance area, they considered performance goals met and exceeded, progress towards the long-term plan recently developed, the reputation preble street has in maine and now nationally, and the executive director's leadership in the community. Subsequent to year-end, preble street undertook a thorough review of the executive director's compensation, and increased it to better reflect market conditions.”

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“Food programs - the largest direct service emergency food program in northern new england, preble street food programs prepare and distribute approximately one million meals a year to meet the nutritional needs of homeless and low-income individuals and families at: central kitchen - preparing meals twice a day for guests at homeless shelters, quarantine shelters, and other service providers. Soup kitchens - serving three meals a day, 365 days a year at the teen center and florence house. Meals were served at the resource center soup kitchen up until it was closed in march in response to the pandemic and guidelines promulgated by the cdc. In response to this closure, meals were delivered via the mobile food services (see below) food pantry - distributing emergency food boxes to individuals and families - including culturally appropriate meals to immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers - five days a week. Mobile food - preparing bagged meals and accompanying street outreach collaborative caseworkers twice a day to distribute meals and other essential needs to unhoused people throughout portland.”

“Florence house - from a safe and supported shelter to permanent housing, florence house serves 65 homeless women 24/365. Providing basic needs from beds to nutritious meals to hygiene education, as well as comprehensive support and referrals for case management, access to community resources for healthcare, mental health and substance use disorder, employment, and legal assistance, and permanent stable housing through three components: emergency shelter - 25 beds providing safety, basic service, housing assistance, referrals, to support women who are temporarily homeless because of economic or situational crisis. Safe haven - 15 semi-private units with support services for the most vulnerable women while they develop the trust, self-assurance, and skills to become more independent. Permanent apartments - 25 "housing first" efficiency apartments with support services for individuals ready to manage independently with staff who can assist them with developing skills to maintain stable independent housing, re-integrate into the community, and reconnect with families.”

“Anti-trafficking services - comprehensive and collaborative client-centered service coordination and support for victims of human trafficking, including sex and labor trafficking. Ats focuses on identifying victims, intervention, training providers, providing outreach and emergency services, case management and interdisciplinary service planning, and promoting individual and systemic justice. Anti-trafficking services empowers clients to understand they have choices and access to services, support, and information that facilitate healing and growth. Community advocacy-preble street advocacy programs advance social and economic justice through outreach, education, and engagement in public policy issues at the city, state, and federal levels in order to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty improve their well-being. Homeless voice for justice (hvj)- advocates with lived experience of homelessness that work with, and for, people who struggle with homelessness, poverty, and oppression to educate its constituency and the wider community on social justice issues adversely impacting people who struggle with homelessness and poverty. Hvj advocates address individual and systemic changes required to improve social conditions by engaging in an array of advocacy campaigns including peer civic education activities. Maine hunger initiative (mhi)-created to address food insecurity needs by advocating for emergency food assistance and developing long-term solutions to hunger in one of the most food insecure states in the u.s. Mhi works to end hunger statewide through community organizing, anti-hunger education, and promoting policy solutions at the state and federal levels to strengthen maine's emergency food system, augment food access and systemically address food insecurity for low income people through public and private collaborations. Health services - currently includes the maine medical center-preble street learning collaborative and the medication assisted recovery program (marp). The mmc-pslc provides community-based healthcare for people experiencing homelessness that integrates health care delivery with learning opportunities and social work. Marp is a partnership with greater portland health to provide intensive case management as part of low barrier medication assisted outpatient treatment for individuals experiencing homelessness who are at greatest risk of overdose and death. Huston commons - provides 24/365 permanent supported "housing first" efficiency apartments for 30 formerly chronically homeless adults with multiple disabilities and challenges who are developing skills to maintain independent housing. It offers community space and laundry and includes a medical care room to accommodate practitioners and telemedicine, as well as on-site staff who provide referrals for case management and facilitate access to healthcare, mental health and substance use disorder treatment, employment, and legal assistance. Logan place - portland's first "housing first" program, logan place provides efficiency apartments and 24/365 support for 30 formerly homeless tenants who are developing skills to maintain independent housing. It offers community space for group and recreational activities and on-site laundry. Housing support staff assist tenants with developing and enhancing life skills and building community, and make referrals for case management, healthcare, mental health and substance use disorder treatment, employment, and legal assistance. Quarantine shelter - providing shelter services to people experiencing homelessness who have been residing in congregate settings with shared bathrooms and kitchens where isolation is not possible as well as other people who have come in close contact with a covid-19 positive individual but have not been tested, who have been tested or are awaiting results, or have been tested and confirmed positive for covid-19 and need to be isolated but do not ha”