About us.

Chosen Kin Collective is a grassroots mutual aid organization based in Portland, Oregon, dedicated to supporting houseless youth—especially trans, queer, and BIPOC young people surviving the margins of a violent system. We are founded on the belief that chosen family can be the most powerful force of protection, love, and liberation.

Born from lived experience and guided by radical care, we provide essential supplies, safety strategies, emotional support, and resource navigation to youth who have been failed by institutions. We are not a nonprofit or a charity—we are a collective response to systemic abandonment.

We believe housing is a right, survival is sacred, and nobody gets left behind. Through community defense, direct aid, and kinship-based organizing, Chosen Kin Collective builds infrastructure for a world where all youth are safe, seen, and supported.