WELCOMING, EMPOWERING, SAFE HABITATION INITIATIVE WITH NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT

Janet (Jan) McManus, LMSW, Executive Director

Janet (Jan) McManus, LMSW is a social worker and social services innovator with more than 45 years’ experience in special needs housing development, crisis intervention and adult protective services, program development and management, long term care, service coordination, and organizational administration and financing.  Jan lives in the Laurelhurst neighborhood. 

Krysten Hall, Deputy Director

Social activist and educator with 15 years of classroom teaching and tutoring experience. Currently the Deputy Director at WeShine Initiative, a startup nonprofit in Portland, Oregon that builds and operates transitional micro-villages for the unhoused.