Corvallis Daytime Drop in Center

Much love and thanks to everyone who has brought us donations recently! When sorting through your potential donations, please try to keep it limited to what's on our most recent needs lists. Practical clothing and basic hygiene supplies are our most frequent needs. We appreciate everyone's contributions, but we have very limited space in our little building and don't have room for excess supplies that aren't frequently requested. Again, thank you all so much for your support as we enter this cold rainy season!

It's getting colder and we're in need of donations! If you have any of the following (or anything else warm and dry), please consider bringing in our way.

-Sugar & coffee creamer
-Men's pants, sizes 30-36"
-Underwear (all styles/sizes)
-Sweatpants
-Hoodies
-Coats & jackets
-Gloves
-Beanies
-Rain gear
-Batteries (AA & AAA)

Thank you for your support!

It's getting colder and we're in need of donations! If you have any of the following (or anything else warm and dry), please consider bringing in our way.

-Sugar & coffee creamer
-Men's pants, sizes 30-36"
-Underwear (all styles/sizes)
-Sweatpants
-Hoodies
-Coats & jackets
-Gloves
-Beanies
-Rain gear
-Batteries (AA & AAA)

Thank you for your support!

We are so hopeful about this funding, and so honored to be part of the proposal! This bill being passed will empower us and so many other amazing organizations across Oregon to continue expanding services for our communities. Check out the article for more info!

Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center may Get $2 Million for New Homeless Facilities - The Corvallis Advocate The Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center may be getting $2 million in federal funding to build a new homeless services navigation center next year. So far, the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has approved the spending, which is an important first step to the funding becoming law. Oregon’s U.S. ...

We're running low on some important stuff at the Drop-In! Right now we're in urgent need of a few things and getting low on some others.

Urgent:
-Ground coffee
-Bread
-Oatmeal Packets
-Milk

Casual:
-Men's pants (especially 32-38" waist)
-Shorts (all sizes)
-Underwear (all genders and sizes, especially small)
-Antibiotic ointment
-Pet food, dry or wet
-Men's shoes 10+

Thank you for your support!

Our art gallery is opening for weekly hours! Check it out on Thursdays from 1pm-4pm at 523 SW 4th St (across from the Drop-In Center), starting next Thursday (7/18). The gallery is full of works created by our unhoused neighbors, as well as volunteers and staff. It's a beautiful community art space, and we hope to see you there!

We'll have a table at the SAGE Concert today- come over, say hi, and enjoy the food and music!

Announcing the 2024 SAGE Concert Series!🎉🥕🎺

A Family-Friendly Music Party FUNdraiser - celebrating Community, Local Music, Food, and Drinks!

Dates: Thursdays: July 11, 25, Aug. 8, 22 from 6-8:30 pm

This is a FUNdraiser!

$5-20/person - all proceeds support Corvallis Environmental Center Programs.

When you support our concerts, YOU:

🌻Support SAGE (our education garden) where we grow thousands of pounds of food for people most in need in our community.

🤸‍♀️Help connect thousands of youth to nature and healthy food every year by supporting CEC education programs!

Special thanks to for joining us for the 3rd year in a row as our SAGE Concert Series Title Sponsor! Thank you for being such an amazing community supporter!

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It's gonna be extra hot over the next few days! We're in need of some donations as we go through this heat wave and the rest of summer.

-Women's underwear (all sizes, we're completely out!)
-Triple antibiotic ointment
-Men's shoes sizes 10 and up
-Pants size 38" waist and under
-Shorts (all sizes)
-Tank tops
-Hair ties
-USB-C chargers

Thank you for your support! ☀

Our first dental clinic at the Drop-In Center was a huge success! Thank you so much to Community Health Centers of Benton and Linn Counties for making this all possible. Their dental team are rockstars!

We will be hosting these free dental clinics monthly at the Corvallis Daytime Drop-In Center, with the next three scheduled for July 26, August 22, and September 23 from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM. The July one is fully booked already, but feel free to walk-in in case there's a cancellation or no-show! Come by and talk to a CDDC staff member if you're interested in scheduling.

Services Available:
-Assessments exam and x-rays: Dentists will look at x-rays and make a treatment plan with you before your cleaning/exam.
-Initial cleaning: Basic dental cleaning. The dental team will let you know if follow-up appointments are needed.
-SDF (Silver Diamine Fluoride) Treatment: This material stops cavities from growing, but does turn the spot where the cavity is on the tooth black.

Superheroes! 🦸💛

....Our second Housing Hero was the Samaritan Health Services Care Hub Team! Pictured here left to right: Anita Earl, Carrie Manley, Susan Avila. Here is what Program Director Dan Easdale had to say about this incredible team:
"Samaritan’s Care Hub is a team of social workers and nurses that
fans out across the three counties, Linn, Benton and Lincoln, to
provide care to the most marginalized members of our
communities. They check on people living in tents, in their cars,
shelters, etc, in whatever weather. They follow up when they leave
the hospital, are willing to physically show up to help assess how
desperately people are needing care who are living outside, they
check wounds, they encourage and hand out huge doses of
compassion! Their patients are often times very ill, they have
cancer, strokes, heart failure, need surgery, had surgery, every
illness imaginable. They have all of this and no place to call home.
And sometimes this team cares for people to the end of their lives.
Imagine what is must feel like to be sick and alone and outside. But
also what it must feel like when this group of angels shows up at
your tent or car to check on you. The service and financial savings
to our community provided by this team is truly remarkable. They
also sponsor respite beds, a place for people to recover. At Third
Street Commons we have been fortunate to host many of the Care
Hub’s clients in respite care. In fact, at least of third of all the
clients at TSC have been connected to the Care Hub Team. At least
every week the Care Hub Team has been on site providing care and
follow up so folks can stay out of the Emergency Room, get
healthy, and have a shot at getting off the streets and into housing.
Our connection to this team has helped us identify and house many of our most fragile and desperately ill unhoused community
members. We are so blessed to be connected to this team of
incredible human beings and pleased to present them with the
Housing Hero Award."

Our art show last Friday was a great success! To everyone who contributed, helped set up, or just came by to check it out and hang with us, thank you so much 💛 If you didn't get to see it, check out these pics as a sneak peek! Stay tuned for other opportunities to stop by and connect with our community's artwork.

Huge thanks to this fantastic crew of Corvallis High School students for coming by last weekend to volunteer around the Drop-In Center! We so appreciate our community for showing up to support our mission. You guys rock! 💛☀

Today!! Hope to see you there!

We're having an art show across the street from the Drop-In Center! Come see Upper Babylon, Lower Babylon on May 31st at 523 SW 4th St in Corvallis. We'll open up at noon and wrap up when things start to die down. Come see some art from our talented guests, staff, and volunteers, and stay a little while to hang out with us! Hope to see you there ☀💛

We're having an art show across the street from the Drop-In Center! Come see Upper Babylon, Lower Babylon on May 31st at 523 SW 4th St in Corvallis. We'll open up at noon and wrap up when things start to die down. Come see some art from our talented guests, staff, and volunteers, and stay a little while to hang out with us! Hope to see you there ☀💛

We're in need of some eclectic donations again! If you happen to have any of these odds and ends lying around, please consider bringing them to us during our open hours:
-Cereal
-Masking tape
-Shaving razors
-USB-C chargers (just the cord is fine!)
-Pants/shorts size 36" waist and under (men's and womens)
Thank you for your support!

On April 21, 2024, we lost one of our cherished friends, Rick Kleinosky. Rick has been a faithful volunteer for the Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center for many years. He was the face behind Project Action when it first began, and later joined our Street Outreach and Response Team to meet our most vulnerable neighbors at their campsites. Last week, we honored his memory by doing tie-dye with our guests and adding more color to the world. He will be dearly missed. 🖤
The following is his obituary, and a link to his Tribute Wall where you can share your memories of Rick:
Richard Lis was born on April 30, 1953, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Johnstown High School and was married to Mary Jane Van Cavage of Johnstown. They had a daughter, Heather.
In the 80’s, Rick worked as a laboratory data analyst for Westinghouse. While working there he completed his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering.
Rick was preceded in death by his former wife Mary Jane and his sister Rose Marie King, of Johnstown. He is survived by his daughter, Heather (Don) May, and granddaughter Olivia of Greencastle, PA: his brothers, Mark Kleinosky, of Johnstown, PA and Matthew (Melanie) Kleinosky, of Toronto, Canada; and many nieces, nephews, grandnephews, grandnieces and cousins. Also, he is survived by his companion and best friend, the woman he called his soul mate of 22 years, ‘Marta’. Their love for one another was one of loyalty through thick and thin. From an early age, Rick was drawn to the outdoors and was insatiably curious about nature. Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett were his childhood heroes. As an adult Rick left town on weekends to go solo backpacking to spend time among the wild things that amazed him. In his thirties, his professional career as a chemist lost all its appeal, and he bailed out to go see America while he was still young enough to do it. When money ran out, he learned the ways of the homeless to meet his financial and physical needs and made the outdoors his refuge, camping among the trees. Getting older he gave up this lifestyle and got his own apartment, then spent the last several years of his life “giving back”. If one took the time to know Rick and listened carefully, one would have found him to be full of knowledge and would enjoy fascinating stories of his travels. He arrived in Oregon to pick wild mushrooms and made it his home. He felt lucky to have found a wonderful community in Corvallis. He dedicated his last years to giving back in service to the community, and continuing his art, photography, and poetry, leading, mentoring and inspiring many. Included in the list of Rick’s dedicated and faithful volunteering was the Corvallis Daytime Drop-in Center and Corvallis Sustainability Coalition.
In respect for Rick’s wishes no formal funeral service will be held at this time. A private memorial will happen later.
https://www.mchenryfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Richard-Kleinosky-2/ #!/TributeWall

Congratulations to one our awesome staff, Hezekiah Franklin, for receiving the Rotary Hero Award for his work serving vulnerable members of our community here at the Drop-In and with Corvallis Housing First. We so appreciate everything Hezz does for us at the Center! Thank you so much to the Rotary Club of Corvallis for the recognition and all they do for our community as well 💛☀️

We’ve still got plenty of blue bags waiting for you! 💙Visit any of our locations to grab yours and join us in celebrating Earth Week 🌎. Fill it with cans and bottles ♻️, then drop it off at any BottleDrop location. Simply scan the QR code, and BottleDrop will add an extra 20% to your donation until May 4th.

Big thanks to staff Sophie for showing off our bags!

Spring has sprung, and it's wet outside! The Drop-In is running low on the following supplies:
-Instant ramen
-Oatmeal
-Fruit
-Belts
-Batteries
-Rain gear
-Bungie Cords (or rope, for camping)
-Men's pants (30-36 waist)
-Women's underwear (small, medium, and large)

Thank you for your support!

Today's the LAST DAY to see our Sovereign Subterraneans installation at the Living Studios Gallery! Check it out between 12pm and 4pm today- you don't want to miss it!

Sovereign Subterraneans, an exhibit featuring artwork done by the community at the Drop-In is being featured at the Living Studios Gallery every Friday in March, from 12 PM - 4 PM. The reception will be held on March 21st, 12 PM - 8 PM. Living Studios is located at 1445 Crystal Lake Drive in South Corvallis. Huge thanks to them for putting this on 💛 We hope to see you there!

Sovereign Subterraneans, an exhibit featuring artwork done by the community at the Drop-In is being featured at the Living Studios Gallery every Friday in March, from 12 PM - 4 PM. The reception will be held on March 21st, 12 PM - 8 PM. Living Studios is located at 1445 Crystal Lake Drive in South Corvallis. Huge thanks to them for putting this on 💛 We hope to see you there!

We need bowls! We use them for cereal, soup, and oatmeal, so please keep us in mind if you're doing some spring cleaning in the kitchen. We are also in need of some other odds and ends:

-Dog food
-Mens pants
-Mens shoes
-Sweatpants
-Hoodies
-Rain gear
-Backpacks

Thank you for your support, Corvallis!

Thank you so much to Chris Gray and Charles Woods from Benton County Health Department for making this event possible today! And thank you so much to our wonderful guests who came to learn how to help their peers in emergency situations. You're all community heroes 💛

Attention guests of the Drop-In Center! Please join us for a class at the Center this Friday, January 26th, at 12:30 PM (soon after we close our walk-up services for the day). We'll be teaching you CPR, how to use Narcan, and other first aid skills. We hope to see you there!

Attention guests of the Drop-In Center! Please join us for a class at the Center this Friday, January 26th, at 12:30 PM (soon after we close our walk-up services for the day). We'll be teaching you CPR, how to use Narcan, and other first aid skills. We hope to see you there!

It's getting chillier and we're running low on warm supplies (and some food)! The Drop-In is in need of the following donations:
-Jackets (especially L-3XL)
-Waterproof boots
-Men's shoes sizes 10-15
-Gloves
-Thermal wear like long johns
-Hand/toe warmers
-Sleeping bags
-Bread
-Water bottles for street outreach
-Flavored oatmeal single serve packs
Thank you all!