support | bereavement | serious illness | outreach

The Multicultural Peer Support Program continues to grow.  Since 1999 we have worked with  Riverton Elementary School in Portland.  In 2002, The Center reached out to add Lincoln Middle School to our existing program. Today the program now serves over forty children from eight countries each year. The peer groups provide support to children who have relocated to the Portland area from war torn countries and have experienced trauma and loss. 

The program has an artwork and creative play focus. In 2003, the children from the Multicultural Program produced forty-one pieces of artwork which were exhibited at Portland Museum of Art under the title “Changing Worlds” as part of a collaborative project with the PMA in conjunction with the exhibition “Migrations: Humanity in Transition” photographs by Sebastiao Salgado. Several thousand museum patrons viewed the exhibit.