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Washington County Services
OFB-Washington County Services distributes food
to more than 90 nonprofit agencies.
Need food?
Who we are
Oregon Food Bank directly operates four regional food banks: Oregon
Food Bank — Washington County Services in Hillsboro, Metro
Services in Portland, Southeast Oregon Regional Food Bank in Ontario and The Regional Food Bank serving Tillamook County in Tillamook.
In addition to these two distribution centers, the Oregon Food Bank Network includes 16 independent regional food banks throughout the state.
How do we help?
We distributed more than 4-million pounds of food during the past
year to more
than 106 nonprofit agencies in Washington County, including:
- emergency food box programs
- soup kitchens
- senior centers
- group homes
- adult day-care programs
- gleaning
- Community Basket
- migrant outreach program
- food basket program
This fiscal year, 35 emergency food box agencies
served an average of 12,259 households each month with a five-to-seven-day supply
of emergency food.
Our member agencies served emergency meals to
low-income residents at
- senior centers
- adult group homes
- youth group homes and
- soup kitchens
More people working minimum wage jobs are having difficulty making ends meet.
Resources for you and your family:
- Community
Basket: provides surplus food and a newsletter that includes nutrition education,
job resources and budgeting information for low-income households
once a month.
- Hillsboro and Cornelius Food Basket: provides supplemental groceries and a newsletter to low-income individuals in Hillsboro and Cornelius.
- Holiday Basket: OFB-WCS is transferring full coordination of the Holiday Basket program to Salvation Army. The program will now be known as the Washington County Holiday Basket Program. Businesses, churches, civic groups and individuals sponsor low-income families with food to celebrate the holiday season.
- Tualatin Valley Gleaners: recover produce, baked goods and other surplus products from stores, fields and other sources.
- Nutrition Education and Food Safety: food demonstrations to low-income households. Recipes, nutrition, the food pyramid, food preparation and food safety.
- Westside Learning Garden designed to:
- increase knowledge of nutrition and quality food production to low-income households
- connect youth with their community and environment through hands-on learning
- give people of all ages the opportunity to help others while they help themselves
- educate participants about Oregon Food Bank and hunger issues
- Migrant Camp program: outreach to seasonal farm workers in Washington County.
- Advocacy and education: to address the root causes of hunger.
For information about state assistance programs
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