Peer Outreach Services

The Pasadena Outreach Response Team (PORT) is a multidisciplinary, field-based program designed to engage individuals experiencing homelessness who face complex barriers related to mental health conditions, substance use, chronic medical needs, and justice system involvement. PORT prioritizes low-barrier, trauma-informed, and person-centered engagement strategies to stabilize participants and connect them to housing, healthcare, and supportive services.

To strengthen participant engagement and continuity of care, the City of Pasadena Public Health Department (PPHD) seeks to contract with a qualified nonprofit agency to provide peer-led outreach and engagement services.

Since 1892, the Pasadena Public Health Department has been responsible for helping protect, maintain and improve the health of the Pasadena community. The City of Pasadena is one of only three cities in the state of California that maintains its own independent local health jurisdiction with responsibility for a wide variety of services that support the three core public health functions of assessment, policy development, and assurance. The Pasadena Public Health Department is committed to building trusting relationships with the community we serve; providing high-quality services; making health services accessible; instilling the value of public health; and creating opportunities that foster health professional excellence.