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Please visit Head Start’s Career Opportunities page: https://nworheadstart.org/career-opportunities to explore the latest job openings and learn more about each role
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Community Action Team (CAT) provides a broad range of programs and services designed to support individuals, families, and communities. From housing and energy assistance to veteran support, early childhood education, and senior services, our goal is to help people achieve stability and self-sufficiency. For over five decades, CAT has worked to address the unique challenges…
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Head Start/Oregon Prenatal-5 is a program with Community Action Team that works with children and families to promote children’s growth in all areas of development. The program involves families in every aspect of their child’s development. Including parent engagement, accessing local resources, and collaborating with community partners. Community Action Team is an anti-poverty agency that…
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From just four rooms to nine in under a year, CAT’s Single Room Occupancy (SRO) program has expanded across three houses—more than doubling our capacity to support single adults. These homes are filling a critical gap in the housing system, offering individuals a stable place to land, regroup, and take their next steps forward.
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Join our team as a Home Visitor with Columbia County Healthy Start! This role involves working closely with new birth families to provide intensive home visiting services, supporting healthy child development, nurturing family relationships, and preventing child abuse and neglect. If you’re passionate about early childhood development, family support, and making a difference in your…
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Joyce Ervin is not one to seek attention or applause. Throughout her 49 years of service to children and families in our community, she has quietly led with compassion, determination, and a deep belief in the mission of Head Start. But as she steps into retirement, her extraordinary contributions simply cannot go unrecognized. At a…
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This strategic plan guides the Community Action Team’s efforts from 2023 to 2026, focusing on service delivery, staffing, governance, funding, and partnerships. Each goal is accompanied by targeted strategies and progress indicators to measure success. Goal #1: Integrate Service Delivery, Accountability, and Reporting Strategies: Progress Indicators: Goal #2: Ensure a Skilled, Motivated Workforce Ensure that…
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Clatskanie PUD Partners with Head Start to Enhance Safety When it comes to building stronger, safer communities, collaboration is key. This spirit of partnership was recently exemplified by the Clatskanie Public Utility District generous donation of an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to Community Action Team’s Head Start program. This gift, inspired by a shared commitment…
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Head Start offers volunteers an opportunity to provide children with a positive role model by reading to children, sharing a skill or assisting teachers in the classroom. To learn more about volunteer opportunities call (503) 556-3736
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Senior Programs Volunteers Needed. Whether you deliver meals to homebound seniors as a Home Delivered Meals driver, serve meals at one of our Senior Centers, offer participants a cheerful smile as a friendly visitor or provide a reassuring phone call. Volunteer work can be extremely rewarding on a number of levels. While there are a…
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Columbia County Warming Center is in need of volunteers in order to open this year. Six (6) volunteers are needed to operate each night the Warming Center is open. We are seeking individuals who are able to commit themselves to at least two (2) four (4) hour shifts per month. If you are interested please attend one…
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Housing Needs Met: Stronger Families: Economic Impacts Community Action Team believes that investing in the local community is the most effective way to reduce the incidence and effects of poverty. CAT does this by connecting individuals in need with the local services available to help them step out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. This includes…
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