Birch Community Services Inc.

Birch Community Services (BCS) Sustainable Families Program has been providing two core services to struggling families from around northwest Oregon and southwest Washington for over 28 years: a program that last year re-distributed over 10.4 million pounds of donated food and other products to 818 families, and a program of workshops to instruct adult members of participant families in skills to facilitate self-sufficiency: e.g. financial literacy, money management, household budgeting and backyard/community gardening.

Our goal is to provide financially struggling families with knowledge and skills to gradually emerge from assistance programs to economic stability, through a range of self-sufficiency workshops and the support and encouragement of staff.

This position has a close working relationship with over 550 participant families and 70 other agencies serving the community.