More than 3.5 million people live in Oregon and the Department of Human Services touches in some way each and every one of these lives.

• Statewide
• County
• Unsung Heroes
• Staff Tools

Making a Difference Statewide

Statewide Fact Sheet (PDF)

You may not realize it, but every day you come in contact with the work that we do no matter where you live. Finding safe, healthy food in restaurants; sipping clean, clear drinking water; being free from exposure to serious illness because of immunizations – all this and more is part of our charge to help ensure all Oregonians are as healthy and safe as possible.

We also help meet the basic needs of the vulnerable, those facing poverty, and the abused among us. We assist seniors and people with disabilities live as independently as possible. And we give support to low-income Oregonians to obtain health care and treatment for mental health and addiction problems. We help the economy throughout the state through the community programs we help fund, the jobs we help people find, and the income assistance, health care, and food stamps received by poverty-stricken individuals and families – dollars that are all pumped back into local economies.

By taxpayer funding and the delivery of this work, all of us are making a difference in the lives of people around us who are sometimes the most forgotten, abandoned, or overlooked in our society.

See: DHS Agency Overview, Dec. 2004

Making a Difference by County

Unsung Heroes Making a Difference

Staff Tools

• Photo release form - PDF format, RTF Format
• Making a Difference Story Suggestion - RTF format, PDF format
  

For more information, contact: Office of Public Affairs (OPA)