CPAH Project Pages

Community Partners for Affordable Housing, (CPAH), is dedicated to building quality affordable housing opportunities with services and programs in Washington County and SW Portland. They have been part of the local response to this growing need for 27 years. CPAH creates and maintains healthy, sustainable housing with services for diverse residents including families, seniors, and people with disabilities. They serve diverse people and communities and deeply value equity as a guiding principle in their programs and policies. The staff at CPAH has been working since October in preparing for the Christmas giftgiving activity. 140 children received gift bags, with items specific to their own wish lists! Also inside each bag was a warm winter throw that our Kiwanis club bought for the children.

By RobertBell

Our club worked last year and this year with Community Partners for Affordable Housing, participating in their project of delivering Christmas presents to disadvantaged children. CPAH identifies the disadvantaged children and what presents the children want/need. This year our club purchased throw blankets for the140 children being served by the Christmas wish program. Ken Barker shopped for the blankets and the club’s service fund paid for them. Ken also delivered the blankets to CPAH to be included in the gift bags for each child. On Friday, December 17th , George and Karen Deibert and I went to the CPAH location on Capitol Hwy., in Portland. We loaded into our cars dozens of bags for needy children living in an apartment complex located in Tigard. Ken and Nancy Barker, Mike McClain, and Sue Cummins joined George, Karen and me to deliver the bags of Christmas presents to children residing there. It was a great joy to deliver those bags to the children.

By George Deibert

We had a full rain stop with a small peak of sunshine for delivering a big load of gift bags to children with CPAH. It was great that our club came together and bought the fleece throws which got added into the bags of toys that came from a local TV station toy drive. As this was our second year helping CPAH with second year helping CPAH with the delivery, the delivery, several small changes several small changes made it go much smoother. made it go much more But as before, we were able to witness some true smoothly. But as excitement from a few children who were there to before, we were able greet Santa. to witness some true excitement from a few children who were there to greet “Santa” . 13