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For PPU Ronald Warren And Gary Obermeyer Grands President and PPU Secretary. Super Grandfathers from PPU

Multnomah County

Grandparents Raising Grandchildren

Multnomah County Library

Adults 50 and over are one of the fastest growing segments of our community, and one of the populations that most uses library services. Visit any Multnomah County library and you’ll find active adults perusing the shelves for the books and movies they most enjoy, and volunteering in a variety of capacities to help provide library services to the community. Multnomah County resources for older adults, people with disabilities, and their caregivers

PPU Contribution

Be a Hero to Your

Be A Hero! Protect your grandchildren and yourself from COVID-19! Publication Number: M2367 View as PDF: M2367.pdf As a grandparent, whether you are the full-time caregiver for your grandchildren or are helping out while after-school options are closed, you are already a hero! To make sure you can do all the things that your children and grandchildren count on, you need to take care of yourself.​ Be close, but be safe Wear a mask, even indoors, whenever you are around your grandchild

Mothers for Police Accountability

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Loving Up Movement

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Wide Open School A new way to learn from home Wide Open School began as a way to meet the change in learning needs of students, teachers, and families due to the coronavirus pandemic. Our work represents the collective action of more than 75 content partners and supporters. The pandemic has highlighted the invaluable role that teachers play in students' lives. It has also made the connection between schools and families more essential than ever.

Washinton Post Parents

Guide Contribution

AGE +

AGE+ stands with our Black/African American community members and shares their outrage and heartache over the historic and recent racist tragic events in our nation. We see the long term impacts of systemic racism and inequality, particularly in the daily lives of Black/African American older adults and those in communities of color. Please read our full statement of support here. Black Lives Matter.

Notes and Documents

Resolution NW Contribution

Model Code Contribution

Dignity in Schools

Go High Corp Contribution

Pixel Art

Welcome to Game Education PDX! Play, Make, Design. We provide fun, hands-on game education for underserved youth in and around PDX. We help bridge the digital divide and reduce barriers of access to technology education by providing tools, resources and mentoring support for game creation. Game Education PDX is an initiative led by Pixel Arts Game Education (PAGE) PPU Board Member and Partner

Community and Parents For

Public Schools Contribution

S.A.G.E.

WELCOME We are a community of advocates who believe that each generation should improve the quality of life for the next. Everyone is an asset, despite their age. People over fifty have energy, wisdom and resources that are vital to the well-being of our communities. Through workshops, discussions and leadership development, SAGE inspires and supports adults to give forward so younger and future generations thrive.

Reflections

Volunteering and COVID care.

AARP of Portland

Ties That Bind

Ties that Bind officially launched in January 2016 with a series of school-based support sessions in Portland, Oregon. The program is designed to provide unique peer support, consult and training, with the goal to improve timely access and clarity to resources available to families. Our goal is to create a sustainable model of volunteer-based peer navigators whose knowledge and experience assist newer grandparents raising grandchildren. In early 2018, we launched this dedicated portal to increas

Our Greatest Blessings

Grandparents Day September 8

Early Learning System

Raise Up Oregon Oregon is home to over 275,000 children, birth to kindergarten entry. Our state has an opportunity to change how it supports these children and their families and, in doing so, put itself on the path to an even brighter future. Overwhelming evidence tells us that investing in young children and their families has a lasting, positive impact across their lifetime. Raise Up Oregon: A Statewide Early Learning System Plan is grounded in the science of child development, equity, More

TEACHERS BRIGADE BOOK FAIRY READING PROGRAM Keep Your Child Reading Through COVID-19

About Teachers Brigade Teachers Brigade is a nonprofit organization that connects public school teachers with retired teachers and classroom volunteers. Our mission is to roll up our sleeves to work alongside classroom teachers and students to support them and to help them succeed. We work alongside educators, students, and parents, in communities across Oregon and Southwest Washington . Our purpose is to help give classroom support to transform public schools into institutions that ( More

Oregon Retired Educators

Association

Realities Raising

Children in Oregon

Virtual Curriculums (Distance Learning)

ODE, PPS and Mult. County

Real Love

What is Real Love? You already know that you want to have a life filled with love—receiving it, giving it, surrounded by it. But you also know that the “love” you’ve found so far isn’t quite as satisfying as you’d like. It doesn’t fill you up, make you whole, or give you genuine happiness that is lasting. What you did NOT know is that people are confused about what love truly is, and that what you want is unconditional love or Real Love. You want to find it, fill up with it, and give it to o