Grants Pass Transitional Housing
Vision:
Provide short term housing and case management for individuals and families to help move up from homelessness and ultimately into long term housing.
Today our program will be presented by Matt Vorderstrasse, who has lived in Southern Oregon for 18 years. He is the Development Director of Rogue Retreat.
Matt has worked in the non-profit community for over a decade and his past employment includes: Participant Support Supervisor at ACCESS, the founding director of Compass House, Program Specialist with Jackson County Mental Health where he coordinated the development of Compass House in the community, and as the development assistant at Addictions Recovery Center in Medford where he helped coordinate fundraising, event planning, project coordination, and marketing efforts.
Matt graduated from Rogue Community College and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Southern Oregon University. Matthew also holds a Master of Arts Degree in political science with a focus on comparative politics, government development and strategic leadership.
Matt was appointed by Governor Kulongoski to serve on the Oregon Post-Secondary Quality Education Commission, the Board of Directors for Southern Oregon Drug Awareness, the City of Medford Multi-Cultural Commission; he served as Chair of the Jackson County Democratic Party, was a member of the Addictions and Mental Health Planning and Advisory Committee for the State of Oregon, and was Student Body President at Rogue Community College from 2008 to 2010.
Matt is 33 years old and he and his wife live in Central Point.
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