A Real Home
A craftsman house on a quiet Hillsboro street — front porch, kitchen island, backyard garden, and a place at the table for everyone.
About us
A house on a quiet street, and the people who make it home
Aeternum was started by families who believed adults deserved somewhere beautiful, safe, and genuinely home-like to live, grow, and belong.
Est. 2011
A small household on a quiet street in Hillsboro, Oregon.
About Aeternum
A house built around every person we support
Aeternum was founded on the belief that healing happens best in places that feel safe, familiar, and genuinely welcoming. Rather than creating another institution, we created a home where individuals receive compassionate support, build meaningful relationships, and work toward greater independence in a calm residential setting.
Mission
To offer adults a warm, steady home in Hillsboro where daily living, growth, and independence come naturally.
Vision
A neighborhood where support happens in real homes — with porches, gardens, and neighbors.
Values
Dignity. Warmth. Honesty. Family. Independence, grown at each person's own pace.
Why families choose us
It feels like a home, because it is one
Four things shape every ordinary day for the residents of the Aeternum house.
Support, Not Supervision
Warm, respectful help with everyday living from people who know your name, your coffee order, and what you're working toward.
Growth at Your Pace
Personal goals, new skills, and more independence — built one ordinary, encouraging day at a time.
Belonging
Shared meals, movie nights, garden mornings, and neighbors nearby. Community is the quiet ingredient in healing.
Our standards of care
The commitments behind every ordinary day
Six standards shape how we support the adults who live here — and what referral partners and families can count on.
Licensed Residential Treatment Home
Operated as a state-licensed residential home, with the oversight and record-keeping that comes with it.
24/7 Professional Support
Awake staff around the clock, so someone is always nearby for the individuals in our care.
Trauma-Informed Care
Our team is trained to respond with patience and predictability, never pressure.
Medication Management
Storage, reminders, and documentation handled carefully alongside each person's prescribers.
Individual Recovery Planning
Every resident has a written plan with goals they helped set, reviewed as things change.
Family Collaboration
Families stay in the loop through regular updates, visits, and shared decision-making.
Licensing, partnerships & training
- Oregon Health AuthorityLicensed residential home
- Coordinated Care OrganizationsLocal CCO partnerships
- CPR & First AidCertified care staff
- Trauma-Informed TrainingOngoing team education
Everyday living
Eight things that make a day here feel good
Ordinary, on purpose. This is what daily life looks like for the adults in our care.
Unhurried Mornings
Coffee on the patio, a slow start, and a rhythm that belongs to the person living it — not to a schedule on a wall.
Home Cooking
Fresh meals planned and prepared together, eaten around one wooden table with the windows open.
Daily Living Skills
Cooking, laundry, budgeting, appointments, transit — the practical confidence that independence is built on.
Medication Support
Gentle, reliable help staying on track with medications and health routines, coordinated with each person's own providers.
Garden & Green Space
Raised beds, flowers to plant, a mossy path to walk, and Oregon trees over the back fence.
Family Welcome
Families visit, cook, celebrate birthdays, and stay part of daily life — because they always were.
Out in the Neighborhood
Trail walks, the library, the farmers market, and a bus line close enough to make the whole city reachable.
Dignity, Always
Residents, not patients. Neighbors, not cases. Everyone here is treated as an adult with a life of their own.
Meet our team
The people who make this a home
Licensed, experienced, and present — leadership you will meet on your very first tour.
ME Marianne Ellis
Home Director
Twenty years of running small residential homes where people are known by name.
SO Samuel Okafor
Support Coordinator
Helps each resident shape goals, routines, and the life they're working toward.
PR Priya Raman, RN
Health & Wellness
Coordinates medications, appointments, and everyday wellbeing with a light touch.
AW Andre Whitfield
Daily Living Coach
Cooking, budgeting, transit, and confidence — learned by doing, together.
DC Denise Cole
Community Connections
Links residents with work, classes, volunteering, and neighbors in Hillsboro.
Ready to talk it through?
No pressure, no obligation. Call (971) 317-2199 or come by and walk through the house with us.