Central City Concern
Central City Concern (CCC) serves single adults and families in the Portland metro area impacted by homelessness, poverty and addictions. We meet our mission of providing comprehensive solutions to ending homelessness and achieving self-sufficiency through innovative, outcome-based strategies that support personal and community transformation.
Founded in 1979, CCC has developed a comprehensive continuum of affordable housing options integrated with direct social services including health care, substance use disorder treatment services and employment. Today, we serve 14,000 people annually with:
- Direct access to housing which supports lifestyle change.
- Integrated health care services that are highly effective in engaging people who are often alienated from mainstream systems.
- Attainment of income through employment or accessing benefits.
- The development of peer relationships that nurture and support personal transformation and recovery.
Empowered by our staff, donors, partners and volunteers, we’re creating a proven solution for our community — one person at a time.
Our Mission
Central City Concern helps those struggling with life’s biggest problems to end or avoid homelessness and build healthy, housed, resilient and engaged lives. Our vision is a future in which nobody in our community has to experience the pain and harm of homelessness.
Our Values
At CCC, you’ll work alongside people of all backgrounds and walks of life. Here are some of the ways we support an inclusive culture:
- Hiring and recruitment practices that make sure our staff represents the backgrounds of those we serve.
- A commitment to offering a living wage and advancing pay equity.
- A robust Veterans’ employment program for returning service members and military spouses.
- Serving as a second-chance employer for people with criminal backgrounds.
- Offering many ways for employees to make their voices heard on equity issues.
- A no-tolerance policy for racism among staff, clients and residents.
- Agency-wide anti-racism and equity training.
- Including equity and anti-racism in our criteria for working with outside vendors.
Our Culture
As a CCC employee, you’ll work with people whose lived experiences and cultural backgrounds differ from yours. That’s intentional — and it’s rooted in our mission to counteract the legacy of systemic injustice and its impacts on the present.
We know that Black, Indigenous and other people of color and members of the LGBTQIA+ community experience homelessness at a far higher rate. This has created stark differences in our society. It is unacceptable.
CCC is working to address inequities within our agency and among the clients we serve. Our push for inclusion was first formalized in the early 2000s. But we’ve been at this work much longer — more than 40 years. While we know that systemic change takes time, we can, and will, do better.
Work at Central City Concern
Achieving Central City Concern’s mission would be impossible without dedicated, compassionate people.
When you join our team, you’re part of a staff that’s driven to make a difference at all levels of the organization — and across fields including health care, pharmacy, social services, housing, nonprofit leadership and administration.
From professional staff to medical assistants to maintenance workers, we value both formal education and lived experience as preparation for the work we do. This aspect of our culture means you’ll have a chance to make an impact from day one.
CCC’s work environment is collaborative, supportive and offers generous benefits. You’ll also find many opportunities for professional growth to help you realize your full potential.
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Peer Support Specialist - 16xBurn
Portland, Oregon
Description The Peer Support Specialist will work with the treatment team to assist patients in meeting their goals, both while in treatment and as they transition to the next level of care, working closely with outside agencies and provide...
2h
| Job Type | Full Time |
Pharmacy Technician - Old Town Clinic
Portland, Oregon
Description This position provides technical support to Pharmacists in the processing of prescriptions and maintenance of the Pharmacy Department at Old Town Clinicand Blackburn Center.Old Town Clinicand BlackburnCenter provide primary care...
2h
| Job Type | Full Time |
Portland, Oregon
Description The Case Manager acts to ensure the stability of individuals within the program properties and will be familiar with and able to access resources for clients, including alcohol and drug treatment, mental health treatment and any...
2h
| Job Type | Full Time |
Client Access Specialist - UDS Tech
Portland, Oregon
Description Central City Concern offers integrated housing, health care, and employment services with the long-term goal of eliminating homelessness. Our Client Access team supports the following locations Blackburn, Evergreen Crossing, Ima...
24h
| Job Type | Full Time |
Licensed Medical Provider: Nurse Practitioner (NP) or Physician's Associate (PA)
Portland, Oregon
Description The Licensed Medical Provider at Central City Concern may provide primary care services appropriate to the needs of the population we serve in a variety of different settings. The role will understand and be comfortable with tre...
24h
| Job Type | Full Time |
Portland, Oregon
Description The Recuperative Care Program (RCP) is an innovative service that provides immediate access to emergency housing, primary care, and intensive case management support for individuals who have medical support needs while experienc...
1d
| Job Type | Part Time |
Community Health Outreach Worker
Portland, Oregon
Description Central City Concern's Warm Welcome Program conducts direct street outreach to people experiencing homelessness. As a part of the multi-disciplinary Warm Welcome team, this Community Health Outreach Worker (CHOW) engages directl...
1d
| Job Type | Full Time |
Deputy Dispatch Responder - Administration
Portland, Oregon
Description Join our team and help keep critical services running! Coordinate staffing coverage, support frontline programs, and make a meaningful impact across CCC every day. The Deputy Dispatch Responder responds to requests from staff an...
1d
| Job Type | Full Time |
Mental Health Clinician - Integrated Care Team
Portland, Oregon
Description Mental Health Clinician | Blackburn Center | Central City Concern Make a lasting impact at one of Portland's most innovative programs focused on ending homelessness. The Blackburn Center brings together housing, primary care, be...
1d
| Job Type | Full Time |
Portland, Oregon
Description The Public Policy Analyst works with elected officials, community alliances and relevant community and public/government agencies to advance policy initiatives in support of Central City Concern's mission. The Public Policy Anal...
1d
| Job Type | Full Time |