The CATT is out of the bag!

We're keeping the name, debuting our new logo and announcing the official building names

If you’ve been reading this newsletter for a while, you are probably very familiar with the CATT name and what it stands for. While it was initially a temporary name for the project, it became so recognizable over the course of our community engagement and fundraising efforts that we are keeping it.

Our new logo is featured in this newsletter article and at the top of the page. It seeks to capture the concept of services coming together (like branches of a tree) to create a holistic program that supports our community members.

CATT is really an umbrella name for the collection of services that will be offered at two sites by several different community organizations. To help people understand how to access the CATT services, we developed a naming structure that includes services, providers and locations. We are pleased to announce that the two CATT buildings will be called Beaverton Recovery Center and Hillsboro Recovery Center. Here are the providers and services that will be in each building:

BEAVERTON RECOVERY CENTER

Services provided by:

CODA, Inc.

Sobering

Withdrawal management

Residential treatment

Transitional supports

HILLSBORO RECOVERY CENTER

Services provided by:

Solutions Group NW

Culturally specific outpatient treatment

 Lifeworks NW     

Crisis Services/Hawthorn Walk-In Center

 Mental Health and Addictions Association of Oregon (MHAAO)

Peer recovery and resource center

Project Homeless Connect

Homeless services

We look forward to seeing the CATT name, logo, and building names together on signage very soon!

The image above is a rendering of the CATT Beaverton Recovery Center lobby.

Designing health care services for the CATT 

Ensuring that people who receive services at the CATT also have access to coordinated health care has always been a priority for the project. However, we are not health care experts and weren’t sure of the best way to accomplish this goal. To assist in this work, we hired Bridge Connections Strategic Consulting to bring together key stakeholders to develop a health care services model for the CATT.

On April 3, Bridge Connections convened an amazing group of leaders in the health care industry to participate in a visioning session. With representatives from Health Share of Oregon, Care Oregon, Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center, Central City Concern, Neighborhood Health Center and many other organizations, we spent the morning talking about the greatest health needs of our community members who struggle with problem substance use and/or housing instability. After reviewing data and receiving an overview of the CATT, participants envisioned what new services could be developed to increase access to care for people served at the CATT and in our shelter system.

Future work will include more collaborative sessions, a design of the model that is specific to the CATT, recommendations to implement the model and how to measure the outcomes. Washington County is well on its way to achieving the goal of providing access to coordinated health care for community members who choose to receive help for problem substance use at the CATT.

Thank you!

We appreciate the many individuals who continue to give us their time and wisdom as we develop health care services for this project.