THE EVERLY PROJECT
Providing mutual aid through SOLIDARITY, ADVOCACY, and EMPOWERMENT
About The Everly Project
The Everly Project is a mobile harm reduction program providing life-saving goods and services to underserved community members experiencing houselessness in Portland, Oregon.
We provide syringe services, Narcan, and other crucial supplies, and run non-traditional recovery groups. We educate community providers to encourage service delivery in the spirit of harm reduction, which is non-judgmental and client-driven.
We strive to treat people as the experts of their own lives and their own health, and to honor any positive change they wish to make. We recognize structural injustice and historical trauma as the causes of houselessnes and are committed to providing equitable care.
A little bit about The Everly Team
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ANNIE DEMOTTA
CO-FOUNDER
Annie DeMotta, CSWA, has been working in the social work field for 7 years, in mental health crisis services, and most impactfully with Portland’s houseless community in low barrier medical settings. She holds a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Portland State University, but credits most of her learning to conversations and experiences with people who use drugs. Annie is obsessed with Harm Reduction principles and practice. She believes in approaching this work from a mutual aid mindset, centering trauma informed care and anti-racism. In her spare time she likes reading, going on road trips and spending time outdoors with her dog, Frankie.
Send Annie an email: annie@everlyproject.org
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Brandy Fishback-Simmons
CO-FOUNDER
Brandy Fishback, QMHA, has a passion for providing harm reduction services to Portland’s houseless community. She believes that people who use drugs should be able to define recovery any way they want. She has worked for several years in a medical shelter, providing intensive case management to some of the most medically and socially complex people in our community. Brandy uses a combination of lived experience and formal education to provide compassionate, trauma informed services to the community she serves. In her spare time, she does modern quilting, hangs out with her family and spends time with her cat, Belle.
Send Brandy an email: brandy@everlyproject.org
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DIGNITY
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COMPASSION
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RESPECT