Jeremy Freier

Hello, my name is Jeremy Freier, and I will be joining the PATCH Team as a Community Health Worker helping to bring much-needed services to our most vulnerable neighbors. I grew up in Western Colorado in a small town called Grand Junction and lived in Denver for many years. I have always enjoyed the beautiful outdoors camping, hiking, kayaking, rafting, traveling, and generally exploring everything this beautiful world has to offer. I ended up here in this beautiful state after visiting some friends and just absolutely falling in love with the Pacific Northwest. The way I see it I still have beautiful mountains, forests, and rivers plus I gained the ocean.

I began my career in social services 8 years ago in Colorado working at a youth shelter called The House and spent 4 years there working with homeless youth as a case manager. I moved to Olympia, WA in the summer of 2020 and began working at an intensive inpatient mental health facility called Telecare as a Recovery Specialist. As a recovery specialist, I ran groups such as mindfulness meditation, Yoga, and Tai Chi, giving the patients a way to focus and calm their minds while in the facility. I finally settled here in Vancouver and have been here for the past 3 years. I started working for Share as an Outreach Care Coordinator shortly after moving to Vancouver and have been there ever since. Through my work at Share, I have primarily focused on intensive case management assisting our clients experiencing homelessness to address barriers, connect to services, apply for SSI and SSDI benefits with my SOAR certification, and find stable housing. I have also assisted with our Harm Reduction Program helping to facilitate our syringe services and to hand out basic need items, first aid supplies, life-saving Naloxone, and camping supplies to those in need. In addition to my everyday duties at Share, I was recently voted in as Co-Facilitator for our DEI Committee and have been working for the past 2 years to make Share and our community a more just and equitable place to work and live. I help to coordinate our volunteers with our kit packing program and I assist with organizing our annual fundraising events throughout the years. I’m very excited to be a part of your team and to see what the future of this partnership holds.