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Bridge Meadows in Portland, Oregon
with Host Alicia Sedwick
Bridge Meadows is a unique multi-generational community located in the Portsmouth neighborhood of North Portland. Adoptive parents, foster children, and elders – those over 55 – find a true home built with love and the shared vision of a better tomorrow. Children move from the instability of foster care placements to permanent homes and families. Parents receive essential resources and guidance, while elders find safe, affordable housing and an opportunity to make a meaningful difference in the lives of families and their children.
Modeled after an exemplary program called Hope Meadows in rural Chicago and inspired by the Treehouse Foundation outside of Boston, Bridge Meadows was founded in 2004. The Hope Meadows and Treehouse programs are highly successful and well-respected, boasting impressive adoption rates over the last several years. At Hope Meadows, Treehouse, and now, Bridge Meadows, children find loving adoptive homes, honorary grandparents, mentors, and an entire community poised to nurture them, fostering something they thought abandoned them long ago: a sense of hope.
Learn more on their website and find them on Facebook.
Dr. Derenda Schubert is a psychologist with professional experience including counseling children and families as well as creating and managing programs in the realms of foster care, mental health and developmental disabilities. Prior to joining the Bridge Meadows team she was the Chief Operating Officer of Trillium Family Services and a Board Member of Bridge Meadows.
J. Daniel Steffey serves on Guardian Real Estate Services Executive Management Team as Senior Vice President, Development. He has played a key role in the company’s business development, including leading the company’s initiatives to improve social equity and to increase workforce and supply chain diversity. He has been responsible for the acquisition and preservation of over 2,100 units of affordable housing. In over four decades of experience in housing and community development work in Oregon, he has recorded accomplishments in the public, private and non-profit sectors. For over four decades Dan has been active in the community, including serving as Chair of the Multnomah County/Portland Citizens Commission on Homelessness, a group charged with the creation and oversight of the community’s 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness, and as a board member of a number of community-based organizations. He also created employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities during his lengthy career.
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