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Thank you for your support!

Thanks to the amazing community support, Laurel Hill Center is overflowing with donated clothing and household supplies! Due to the limited storage space in our building, we can no longer accept any donations of clothing, art supplies or other household items.

If we have any specific donation needs in the future we will update this site and send out an email to those who are registered to receive email and newsletters from us. If you would like to be added the email/newsletter distribution list please email Sara McKinney at saramc@laurel.org to be added.

Your Gift can change a life

Donations to Laurel Hill Center make it possible to do the essential work that helps people achieve mental health recovery and turn their lives around. Our clients’ success includes securing safe housing, finding steady employment, improving physical health and rediscovering life’s joys.

About 95 percent of the people Laurel Hill Center serves live under the poverty level. Most receive services through the Oregon Health Plan, also known as Medicaid, but the program reimburses only a portion of the costs of providing community-based mental health services.

We receive income from our Qualified Rehabilitation Facility business, SWEEP Optical, which employs community members with disabilities. It helps cover some of our unfunded costs, but it is not enough.

We rely on community support to provide essential psychiatric services to clients like Chantelle, 19, who is working through the challenges of severe mental illness to have what she calls a “normal” life.

“I won’t feel like my issues will hold me back,” Chantelle said about what she hopes to achieve.

“I love the people here. They’re so easygoing and open,” she added. “I wish the whole world was like this.”

Your tax-deductible donations can be directed toward the programs below. THANK YOU!

LHC Mission Fund

We very much appreciate donations that enable Laurel Hill Center to provide direct support to where it’s needed most. Unspecified gifts help us build effective services that move people toward recovery. Donations to this fund will be used wherever the greatest need is when your donation is received.

Donate To LHC Mission Fund

MORe (Move On in Recovery)

MORe funds provide financial assistance for LHC participants seeking to move forward in their mental health recovery process by transitioning to independent living from congregate sites (residential or apartment complexes for those with a disability) or moving from unhoused to housed.  These funds are available to pay the necessary deposits to move into housing when participants are unable to cover the costs or obtain the funds through community safety nets.

Donations to this fund go directly to assisting those we serve.

Donate To the MORe Fund

Johanna Mitchell Wellness Fund

Johanna’s sensitivity to the universe and those living in it led to a two decade partnership with Laurel Hill Center to provide assistance to some of the most vulnerable members in our community. Each year Johanna donated the proceeds from her Future Signs astrology event to Laurel Hill Center to support individuals with a serious mental illness to help meet their basic needs. Johanna recognized that basic needs such as housing, food, heat and opportunities for self-care are an essential part of everyone’s mental health.

In 2013, at Johanna’s urging, the Johanna Mitchell Wellness Fund was created so she could directly support efforts to improve quality of life through physical fitness and nutrition education. The Johanna Mitchell Wellness Fund supports weekly healthy cooking classes, access to personal trainers, and work-out clothing and shoes. Laurel Hill Center will forever be grateful for Johanna’s support in helping the agency meet its mission to ensure that individuals diagnosed with a serious mental illness can successfully live, learn and work in our community.

Donate To Johanna Mitchell Wellness Fund Now

Our thanks to all who support Laurel Hill Center!