Community building, mentorship,
& resources
None Left Behind is a Black-led grassroots nonprofit serving Portland’s children and families who have been impacted by gun violence, parental separation, addiction, and trauma. Our mission is to promote healing, interrupt generational trauma, enhance education, remove barriers to access culturally specific therapy and reduce youth involvement with drugs, guns and gangs.
The youth and families we serve have been battling each of these complex issues for generations and experience the trauma that often leads to feelings of despair and hopelessness. None Left Behind provides healing relationships, community, and resources that promote a sense of hope. None Left Behind provides trauma informed spaces for youth to operate the PDX African American Young Adult Consumer Network
Looking Forward
With the addition of Portland’s new chapter for Young People in Recovery, we are striving to break the cycles of violence, addiction and trauma, and offer hope and healing to future generations.
What We Do
Mentorship
NLB Mentor staff are Certified Peer Mentors trained in trauma-informed care. Our Mentors bring lived experience to help interrupt intergenerational cycles of violence and trauma. Mentors help identify specific resource needs, facilitate nurturing care, and build lasting bonds among community members.
Community Building
We provide loving, nurturing, resilient community support for children who have experienced separation or loss within their family of origin. Weekly YPR Recovery Meetings. We Host the PDX Young Adult Consumer Network for Black identifying young adults with serious mental health experiences as a result of intergenerational trauma, gang violence and loss of family members. We provide advocacy training, support and network development to address the ongoing mental health related issues caused by the current gun and gang violence epidemic in areas of Oregon, affecting Black, Brown and Person of Color communities.
Resources & Partnerships
None Left Behind seeks to provide food, clothing, furniture, books, shoes, games and other resources.
NLB partners with local community members, businesses, organizations to provide services, food, clothing, furniture, books, shoes, games and other resources.
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Meet our founder, LaKeesha Dumas
LaKeesha Dumas was born and raised in Portland where she has seen first-hand the gentrification, gang violence, drug epidemic, and the devastating impact these factors have had on children in particular.
Unfortunately she has attended more funerals than she can count. Seeing the children, newly without a parent, happens too often. People make promises to support the children but time passes and the child is left behind.
Keesha’s vision is to create a physical space, a safe haven where the child can connect with community, a place that is a consistent source of mentorship, community, resources, and love.
Keesha is certified by the State of Oregon as a Community Health Worker, Peer Wellness Specialist, Adult Addictions Peer Support Specialist, Adult Mental Health Peer Support Specialist, and Youth and Young Adult Peer Support Specialist.
You can learn more about LaKeesha’s story here.