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Emergency shelter - family village - the organization operates family village shelter for up to 17 homeless families with children at a time. Family village is the first shelter in oregon designed using trauma informed design and architecture, which helps families heal from the crisis and trauma of homelessness and can lead to better outcomes like shorter shelter stays and greater success moving into housing. Families staying at family village each have their own, private bedroom with real beds, plus they have access to a full-service kitchen and dining room, library, computer lab, classroom, laundry room, playground, basketball court, vegetable garden, and dog walk area. In this fiscal year, family village hosted 59 families made up of 236 kids and parents. On average, families stayed in shelter 114 days before transitioning to permanent housing and 86% of families moved into housing from shelter.

Prevention program - the prevention program helps families with children prevent their homelessness in the first place by helping them stay in their housing. That way, kids can stay in school, parents can be near their jobs, and families can remain in their communities. The organization pays back rent and utilities for families during times of emergency, with an average investment of only $ 2,586 per family. The prevention program served 85 families made up of 340 kids and parents.

Basic income guarantee pilot - worldwide research shows that supplying folks with unrestricted cash is the fastest way to end poverty. Motivated by these studies, the organization is conducting a pilot program that provides $575 once a month for two years to families with children. The basic income guarantee program served 20 families with children.