Community Safety & Wellbeing Services

Health & Wellness Services

We address social determinants of health through insurance enrollment, community education, health systems navigation, and health screenings. We also offer 90-hour Community Health Worker training for general community members interested in becoming certified.

In addition, our practice and evidence-based, trauma-informed, relationship-based case management and peer support services build safe spaces for families to build social connections. Peer Support Specialists build relationships with clients, work on goals, find solutions to problems, and connect families with essential supports like basic needs, food, and housing.

For Oregon Health Insurance Enrollment, please contact healthplans@irco.org .

Upcoming Free Clinics

Refugee & Immigrant Family Strengthening

RIFS works with participants who are part of our immigrant and refugee communities and undocumented survivors.

Started in 1998, we are a culturally and linguistically specific program that provides holistic, culturally specific, trauma-informed intensive case management and wrap-around services to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking who have been victimized in the last 6 months and live in the Portland Metro area and Ontario, OR.

RIFS Advocates are a lifeline for survivors as they flee from violence, recover from trauma, and rebuild their lives. Our team is multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, and multi-lingual and the staff speak a total of 21 languages. We are client centered and work with the community partners through outreach and collaboration to assist DV/SA/ST survivors.

RIFS serves participant survivors with a vast list of available resources ranging from safety planning and escape to legal support and court accompaniment, to emergency shelter and sustainable housing, language education and employment training, and many things in between. All participants and their accompanying children can make use of Survivor Services and all our services are free and confidential.

For the referral, please contact the RIFS hotline: 503-445-1446

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Services Against Exploitation:

Human Trafficking

IRCO Services Against Exploitation (SAE) provides immediate and long-term assistance to adult survivors of sex and/or labor trafficking anywhere in Oregon.

IRCO SAE is survivor-lead and provides leadership in several local and statewide human trafficking taskforces. IRCO SAE is the only statewide labor trafficking service provider.

We provide a broad range of culturally appropriate services, such as Language Interpretation & Translation, Long Term Case Management, Immigration & Disability Legal Services, Education & Vocational Support, Basic Needs, Crisis Intervention, Public Benefit Advocacy, Employment Rights Help, and both Emergency and Long Term Housing Support.

We are honored to receive referrals from the national Trafficking Victims Assistance Program (TVAP), law enforcement, government agencies, service providers, and self referrals from the public. Free live or virtual trainings on immigrant/refugee & human trafficking topics in English and Spanish are available to professionals as well as to the public.

Contact us at ircosae@irco.org.

  • Arabic Brochure
  • Chuukese Brochure
  • Dari Brochure
  • Farsi
  • France
  • Hmong
  • Korean
  • Mam
  • Nepali
  • Pashto
  • Quiche
  • Rohingya
  • Russian
  • Simplified Chinese
  • Somali
  • Swahili
  • Tagalog
  • Thai
  • Tongan
  • Ukranian
  • Vietnamese

Senior Services

IRCO helps local immigrant, refugee, and other diverse elders thrive by providing direct services and linkages to essential community resources such as:

  • Transportation
  • Citizenship Classes
  • Senior Law Clinics
  • Case Management
  • Health Workshops
  • Options Counseling
  • Recreational Activities
  • Information & Referrals

We strive for seniors in our community to live independent, healthy lives. Call 503.484.6371 for information and referrals.

Our program also serves meals to seniors aged 60+ and people with disabilities (all ages): 

Multnomah County: IRCO Main and Africa House provide on-site, culturally specific meals (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) for older adults and caregivers, plus supplemental food bags with dry and canned food once a week. Serving elders from the Slavic, Somali, Ethiopian, Romanian, Vietnamese, Burmese and Bhutanese communities.

Contact: Irena Cheredayko at irenac@irco.org or 971-354-7228.

Washington County: Phat Quang Buddhist Temple in Beaverton provides in-person congregate meals for older adults from Asian communities.

Contact: Huy Phan at huyp@irco.org or 503-988-0273.

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