Another 2025 Impact Partner, the Portland Opportunities Industrialization Center (POIC), celebrated the graduation of their Community Safety Worker program pilot cohort in January. The two-year program offers graduate-level coursework that transforms low-wage, frontline labor into a sustainable and respected career path.

Recognized as one of the nation’s first formal efforts to professionalize community-based violence prevention, the program is already setting a new standard. Learn about this success through the story of program graduate Zach Salu.