One of Oregon’s largest nonprofit healthcare providers expands to include an integrated behavioral health and wellness center and a 52-unit affordable housing project.
PROJECT LOCATION:
Portland, Oregon
THE PROJECT:
Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare, a nonprofit healthcare provider focusing on mental health and addiction treatment services, redeveloped one of its facilities to include a new 24,540-square-foot integrated behavioral health clinic and wellness center and a new 52-unit Low-Income Housing Tax Credit affordable housing project, known as the Garlington Center and Garlington Housing respectively.
The new Garlington Center operates as a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic, providing a range of mental health and substance use disorder services, particularly to vulnerable individuals. Services include but are not limited to:
- Crisis mental health services including 24-hour mobile crisis teams;
- Outpatient mental health and substance use services;
- Psychiatric rehabilitation services;
- Services for veterans and members of the armed forces; and
- Connections with other providers and systems, such as criminal justice, foster care, child welfare, education, primary care, hospitals, etc.
COMMUNITY IMPACTS:
- Create 123 temporary construction full-time jobs.
- Create 24 permanent full-time jobs.
- Maintain 42 permanent full-time jobs.
- Over 95% of the more than 3,000 clients that the Garlington Center is expected to serve are anticipated to be Medicaid recipients.
COMMUNITY PROFILE:
- Poverty rate of 35%
- Unemployment rate of 12.2%, or 1.54 times the national average
- Interstate Corridor Urban Renewal Area
FINANCING:
- Total Project Cost: $12.5 million
- NCF Deployed Allocation: $11 million
- Total NMTC Allocation: $10.78 million
PROJECT PARTNERS:
- United Fund Advisors (National Community Fund I, LLC)
- Meyer Memorial Trust
