Our Services

Hygiene4All provides critical resources to houseless neighbors, improving public health and sanitation for everyone while promoting greater respect & understanding across the housing divide.

Every day we are open, our paid unsheltered ambassadors and unpaid housed volunteers meet patrons where they are at, offering health critical:

 
 

Shower & Port-a-Potties

We provide sanitized port-a-potties and an ADA-accessible shower trailer.

Last shower 45 minutes before close.

 

Health & Personal Care

Each week, we host community health workers who can provide simple first aid, sign people up for food assistance and health insurance, and refer people to medical appointments.

  • We work with Our Streets and Meals on Us PDX to offer hot nutritious meals several days a week at the Hub.

  • We provide first aid packages that contain written instructions and items for treating feet and hands as well as skin lesions, cuts, bruises, lice and more.

  • We help patrons connect with Portland Street Medicine & peer support specialists who help our community members navigate urgent needs at local hospitals.

  • We hand out thousands of free personal care items each year – such as razors, combs, socks, tampons, and condoms.

 

Clothing & Bedding Exchange

We sort, wash, & recycle tens of thousands of items to the Hub & partners for reuse.

  • H4A has established a pathbreaking partnership with Ground Score Association.

  • GSA provides tent-side waste pick-up to residents on the streets where unsheltered GSA staff separate discarded clothing & bedding that unsheltered neighbors do not have the means to wash.

  • GSA then delivers items to H4A’s facility at St David of Wales where we sort, wash, & recycle tens of thousands of items to the Hub & partners for reuse.

  • This diverts hundreds thousands of pounds of textiles from Portland’s landfill, lowers our carbon footprint, reduces cold/wet weather exposure illness, hypothermia, frostbite, limb loss & death.

See our page on Community Reuse for a more in depth look at Community Reuse vs. Serial Dispossession.

 

Trash Drop-Off

Free and legal trash drop-off is available onsite for all patrons.


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Sandra Comstock, Executive Director

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