Healthy families,
healing generations.
We are a Native-led partnership working to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and strengthen Indigenous families, through culture, community, and lasting change. When our families are well, our future is well.
Four Modes, one circle
Our work moves around a medicine wheel, four connected ways of creating change. See how the Modes work together →
Grounded, growing, accountable
Projects rooted in community
From Land Back housing to food sovereignty, our projects put community first.
2-Spirit Survivance
Celebrating Indigequeer joy across Portland with our Two-Spirit relatives, Multnomah County and TriMet.
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Traditional Foods
Community harvests and food boxes that reconnect families to land and health.
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Chaku Manaqi Lush
Culturally grounded care for expecting parents, babies, and little ones.
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Everyone is welcome here. Bring your family, meet your relatives, share a meal, and feel at home. You never have to come alone.
A home for our relatives, and a Land Back victory for Portland.
Six to ten Native families will find housing and an early-childhood program on land returned to our community in 2024. Named in memory of Atwai Barbie Jackson Shields.
- Multnomah County Health Dept.
- Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
- Confederated Tribes of Siletz
- Oregon State University
- Leaven Community
- NAYA
- Portland State University