Description: Our purpose is to provide service coordination for eligible individuals.
Website: http://www.co.washington.or.us/HHS/DevelopmentalDisabilities/
Address: 155 North First Avenue, suite 250 (MS-66) Hillsboro, ORegon 97124
Main Phone Number: 503-846-3150
Fax: 503-846-3149
Intake Line: 503-846-4737
After Hours Crisis Line: 503-291-9111
Info Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqE2LQc9ntw&feature=youtu.be
Agency Links: http://www.co.washington.or.us/HHS/DevelopmentalDisabilities/Resources/Agency-Links.cfm
Description: VR assists individuals with disabilities to get and keep a job that matches their skills, interests and abilities. VR staff work in partnership with the community and businesses to provide services that are individualized to help each eligible person receive services that are essential to their employment success.
Website: http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/EMPLOYMENT/VR/Pages/index.aspx
Address: 8880 SW Nimbus Ave. Suite D Beaverton, OR 97008
Phone: 503-277-2500
Fax: 503-277-2536
Description: Benefits and Work Incentive Counseling services help people with disabilities make informed decisions about work, benefits and the use of work incentives to achieve their employment goals, as well as helping them navigate the benefits system when they begin working. Many people with disabilities believe that if they go to work, they will lose all of their federal and state benefits or their medical insurance, but this is seldom true.
Website: http://www.oregon.gov/DHS/EMPLOYMENT/VR/WIN/Pages/index.aspx
WIPA and WIN: http://osece.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/WIPA-WIN-Disability-Rights-Oregon-2014.pdf
Description: After the Stephen Beck Jr. Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act was passed by Congress in December of 2014, people with eligible disabilities could finally save for their everyday needs, invest in a tax-free account, and prepare for the future without losing their state or federal benefits. The Oregon ABLE Savings Plan was established by a group of self-advocates, nonprofit organizations and government agencies. This unique program provides eligible residents and their families the resources, support and holistic services to reach their financial goals.
Phone: 1-844-999-ABLE, 9-5pm PT
Website: http://oregonablesavings.com/
Description: Worksystems, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that pursues and invests resources to improve the quality of the workforce in the City of Portland, Multnomah and Washington Counties. We develop policies and design workforce development programs and services delivered through a network of local partners to help people get the skills, training and education they need to go to work or to advance in their careers. Our partners include employers, labor groups, government, community colleges, high schools, community-based and economic development organizations.
Our mission is to coordinate a regional workforce system that supports individual prosperity and business competitiveness. We ensure that the public workforce system serves business by developing qualified employees and giving current and future workers the skills and support they need to successfully engage, advance, and succeed in the labor market.
Camp LEAD is a week long, immersive leadership camp that helps youth with disabilities develop self-advocacy and social skills while giving them work experience and career exposure in the natural resources industry. This camp is made possible through our partnership with Youth Transition Program (YTP; a branch of Oregon Vocational Rehabilitation Services-ORVS) and Oregon State Parks.
Description: The Supa Fresh Youth Farm is an established Social Purpose Enterprise that has employed and trained underserved youth, ages 16-24, in the Tigard-Tualatin School District (T-TSD) and Southeast Washington County since 2009, and serves as a learning space that provides rich experiential vocational opportunities for youth. The farm employs up to 50 youth per year in paid internships that include Work Readiness Training, Leadership Development and Support Services. The hands-on, student-centered approach to learning at the farm empowers and supports youth to learn by doing.
Website: http://supafreshyouthfarm.org/
Katrin Dougherty, Program Director
Phone: 503-307-0633
Email: katrin.dougherty@ohdc.org
Para las preguntas en español: Brenda Avila
Phone: 503-443-0396
Email: brenda.avila@ohdc.org
Description: Project SEARCH is a nationally acclaimed nine-month unpaid internship program that provides employability training for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The program occurs onsite in partnership with local businesses who commit to integrating the interns into the workplace culture.
Phone: 503-239-8101
Address: 424 NE 22nd Avenue, Portland, OR 97232
Description: A manual published by the Oregon Council on Develomental Disabilities. The manual includes a variety of topics, such as transition planning, self-determination, person-centered planning, transition services, community resources, Vocational Rehabilitation services, Social Security benefits, housing, etc.
Website: https://www.ocdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Transition-Guide.pdf.