Our Mission

Project Access NOW partners with community to create equitable access to whole person care and social services and to advocate for systemic change.

Our Vision

Healthy communities where everyone has the care and services they need to thrive.

Our Core Values

COLLABORATION with stakeholders

COMMUNITY-centered approach

CREATIVE
solutions

INTEGRITY in leadership

RACIAL EQUITY 
advancement

Read our Racial Equity Northstar document

Our Strategies

Health & Social Service Coordination

Grow our community-based team of health navigators to coordinate health and social resources across systems, in partnership with community organizations.

Diversify Collaborations
Expand and grow the partners we collaborate with through sustainable, diverse, and flexible funding.

Strong Infrastructure

Strengthen the organization’s internal systems and structures to ensure a thriving, anti-racist workplace.

Project Access NOW is located in Portland, Oregon in Multnomah County. We honor the Indigenous people whose traditional and ancestral homelands we stand on—the Multnomah, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Tumwater, Watlala bands of the Chinook, the Tualatin Kalapuya, and many other indigenous nations of the Columbia River. We acknowledge that the health care system has played a role in the oppression of Indigenous peoples. We commit to ongoing learning about the impact of colonization on health and wellbeing and to meaningful action that reverses health inequities.

Graphic of the state of Oregon
Racial Equity Guiding Document