Our Programs

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The PDX Saints Love Day Center is a safe and welcoming space in SE Portland dedicated to serving individuals experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, and economic displacement. Rooted in radical love and community care, we provide essential resources, peer support, case management, and workforce development opportunities. Our services include housing navigation, harm reduction, healthcare access, and culturally responsive support for immigrant and refugee families. 

More than just a service hub, the Day Center fosters dignity, connection, and empowerment, ensuring that every person who walks through our doors is seen, valued, and supported on their journey.

At PDX Saints Love, we believe in the power of community to create lasting change. Through open-air fairs and free markets, we bring essential resources directly to our neighbors, offering showers, haircuts, clothing, hygiene supplies, OHP/SNAP assistance, ID and birth record replacement, food boxes, hot meals, wound care, Hop passes, and more. Our Community Health Workers provide vital support, assisting with shelter referrals, detox and recovery navigation, primary care connections, and housing resources.

We are proud to collaborate with incredible partners, including Portland Street Response, Cultivate Initiatives, Care Oregon, Montavilla Collective, Our Streets PDX, Oregon Health Authority, CAP Prevention, Quest Integrative Health, Boulder Care Recovery, Great Circle Recovery, Transition Projects, MHAOO, CCC, and many more. Together, we are building a stronger, more compassionate Portland.

We provide on-site resident services with our certified Community Health Workers. 

These services provide low income residents with additional supports connected to their housing that include rent assistance navigation, connections to sustainable food access, providing a liaison between property management and resident, health resources, connections to their neighborhood resources, and community building projects like monthly gatherings and art and wellness activities. 

These programs are vital to sustainability for health and housing. 

We have staff of individuals who have come from homelessness, substance use, trauma, and poverty. Our goal is to build life long skills in community wellness work that affects generations of our community members. 

Sponsoring staff members through vital trainings that include Mental Health First Aid, De-Escalation Training, Trauma Informed Care, and ultimately,  CHW certification and PSS Certifications to expand their scope of work.  

These positions begin as reduced barrier, supportive, and compassionate, supporting social inclusion, which creates ability, opportunity, and dignity, and a sense of belonging that leaves people feeling safe, supported, and accepted.