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- Our mission is to alleviate suffering and offer hope for a better life by serving essential aid with dignity.
- Blanchet House & Farm
- Farm Residential Program
- Oregon officials pledge support for continued container services at Terminal 6
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- Mayor Monday: Molalla begins work on major projects

Blanchet Farm, on 62 acres in Carlton, provides treatment and housing for men with drug and alcohol addictions. “We’re serving nearly twice the number of meals" – 450,000 this year – "that we were prior to the pandemic,” Blanchet executive director Scott Kerman said. This year, Blanchet’s $2 million budget, which relies mostly on donations, has been stretched thin. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to massive layoffs across the United States and in Oregon, creating a greater need for the services that Blanchet provides.
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They raised money to purchase a 40-acre prune farm in Yamhill County. Over the years, with additional land purchases and land gifts the farm has increased to 62 acres. They built dormitories, public spaces, barns for animals, and a woodshop. There is now room for 22 men to live within a program designed to facilitate recovery from alcohol and drug addiction.
Our mission is to alleviate suffering and offer hope for a better life by serving essential aid with dignity.
The pandemic forced the nonprofit to shutter its doors, but not to stop service. Without missing a beat, Blanchet House transitioned to packaging its meals and had breakfast service ready the very next morning. Meals are served indoors by volunteer servers at 310 NW Glisan, Monday to Saturday. Your generous donation directly helps alleviate suffering and offers a path out of homelessness.
Blanchet House & Farm
In addition to volunteering, there are many ways you can help people experiencing homelessness now. For example, you can volunteer to make hygiene care kits, sign up to make sack lunches, or donate needed clothing today. It started with a simple mission to offer food to the unemployed in Old Town.
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Blanchet House holds fundraising brunch amid ‘extraordinary’ demand.
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Farm Residential Program
As a House of Hospitality, Blanchet House offers hot meals without question six days a week, three times a day. Blanchet House was founded in 1952 by a group of University of Portland students encouraged by their priest to "get out in the streets and help." Blanchet House & Farm supports people experiencing homelessness and food insecurity by offering free hot meals, clothing, toiletries, transitional housing, recovery, and community.
We welcome and serve meals to everyone with compassion and dignity. Join as a guest, a volunteer, a resident, a donor, or a supporter. You volunteer for three months down in the kitchen serving the homeless and then, after three months, you can look for a job. And then you have four months to save up money and help you transition out. There’s been a lot of changes like with the extra peer support people that are working with the community, it seems like super positive. It takes a community to heal the community and it’s saved me more than once.
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Although we are not affiliated with any religious organization, the founders were rooted in the Catholic community. Blanchet House’s mission derives from Catholic social teaching principles, including honoring the dignity of every person, offering aid to the poor and vulnerable, and solidarity. Our board and staff include persons of various faiths, and we do not proselytize to our clients or guests.

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You can make as few as 10 or as many as 200 sack lunches containing a sandwich, fruit cup, and a wrapped snack. Choose a date from Blanchet House’s online calendar to drop off your lunches. If you’re not in the Portland area check in with your local charity kitchen about donating sack lunches. Your gift will help stabilize lives by providing meals, transitional housing, and other vital services to vulnerable individuals and families. There are many people in immediate need of food, clothing, access to hygiene, shelter, community, and hope.
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Portland agencies, non-profits make preparations for heat.
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We serve breakfast, lunch, and dinner six days a week in the Founders Cafe. Nutritious hot meals are compassionately served by volunteers. All are welcome to enjoy meals at Blanchet House without judgment. Make toiletry care kits, sack lunches, or collect clothing and sleeping essentials. To alleviate suffering and offer hope for a better life by serving essential aid with dignity. For 70 years, Portland’s Blanchet House of Hospitality has had a mission to help people.

In mid-April, the Port of Portland revealed Terminal 6 would end container services on Oct. 1 after extensive efforts to consider other options and secure more funding from the state. There are so many ways you can get involved to help homeless people. KOIN 6 News’ Kohr Harlan went out Friday to get a sneak peek of this year’s parade.
Blanchet House is recognized as being an exceptional model for providing holistic pathways from homelessness to lasting self-sufficiency. We serve all people with dignity, compassion, and without judgment. The origins of Blanchet House begin at the University of Portland (UP). At UP, the co-founders joined a social and service club named after the first Archbishop of Oregon, Frances Norbert Blanchet.
Lunch began in Blanchet’s communal indoor café and the line outside started to shrink as guests were welcomed inside. And hope, she said, is what’s in demand among those who have nowhere to call home, others who suffer from substance abuse and still others struggling with their own connection to reality. Now, nearly six years into recovery, Coon has turned her own struggles into her life’s work. Coon said she tries not to remember most of those two, no three, no it was actually four years — some of that time pushing a shopping cart along Southeast McLoughlin in the Oak Grove area.
It was just a really overwhelming, good experience that I cherish. It’s that dignity part that people get — that experience [of] a nice hot, warm meal inside where nobody’s making me hurry up and leave. It’s probably the best experience that a lot of some people are gonna have during that day and I think that’s really important.