Description: Albertina Kerr provides a wide range of services designed to support individuals with developmental disabilities, empowering them to lead fuller, self-determined lives. The people we serve face mental and physical disabilities resulting in impairments to daily functioning and include diagnoses such as Down syndrome, autism, cerebral palsy, and epilepsy.
Description: DePaul Industries isn’t your average outsourcing company. We're a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to help people with disabilities to have the opportunity to work, and all of our business operations support this mission. While our organization has changed significantly since our founding in 1971, our evolution and growth have furthered our ability to employ more and more people with disabilities. -
Description: Edwards Enterprises offers adults with disabilities training and employment through contract work with local businesses. Our employees pride themselves on delivering cost-effective and quality work and our partners enjoy the opportunity to complete their projects while employing adults with developmental disabilities. We also offer job placement services to find our clients positions working the local community. Edwards Enterprises works with local companies to hire the right individual workers or teams to meet their specific needs. We are able to provide dependable employees, with or without supervisory staff, to complete projects at a variety of locations.
Description: We improve lives and strengthen the community by bridging the gap between job seekers with disabilities and employers.
Description: A solid, well-recognized and awarded organization that helps everyone reach their potential for a happy, productive and full life. Imaginative programs, skilled staff and a caring community of friends and families have made Full Life an energetic, ever-growing and essential presence in the area.
Description: Job Connection Services Give You the Power to be Successful
Description: The HERE program is for semi-independent individuals aged 18 and older, who want to participate in community volunteer opportunities. HERE educates and encourages participants to become active members of their Washington County community. It also encourages the community of Washington County to take an active part in the lives of individuals with intellectual or other developmental disabilities, encouraging the treatment of everyone as equals in society.
Description: Assists job seekers with disabilities in their efforts to prepare for, find and engage in Community Integrated Employment which is aligned with their individual Career Development Plans.
Description: The employment department at UCP is called Employment Solutions. We assist qualified job seekers who experience a disability to connect with employers who value what they bring to the workplace. Since the department's inception in 2006, Employment Solutions has supported 100 individuals in their job search journey. Our goal is to help them find, secure, and keep employment. All jobs are competitive and pay fair wages.
Description: Disability Rights Oregon provides information, referral, and advocacy services for Oregonians who are having a disability-related legal problem related to employment and licensing for employment. We can provide assistance to people requiring reasonable accommodations to maintain their jobs; we do not handle failure to hire or termination cases. Disability Rights Oregon advocates for the rights of Social Security beneficiaries who have a representative payee. DRO also advocates on behalf of Social Security beneficiaries who are working, or planning to return to work and have a barrier to work. We provide information, referral and advocacy on employment services, Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) and Oregon Commission for the Blind (OCB) services, and support services from Employment Networks (ENs) and other providers. (Read our Employment and Plan for Work pages. )
Description: We provide services for people with developmental disabilities pre-employment, community inclusion and integration, behavioral consultation, children's service.
Description: The Updated 2016-2017 Transition Handbook contains updated contact information, minor corrections and adds some links to supplemental materials. The handbook is meant to be used in classrooms with parents and community partners, and ODE trainings. This handbook is designed to provide the basics around various transition topics to help educators when designing transition plans with students and their families as they navigate the transition pathway from school-based services into adult services. Download the full handbook or the additional materials on the ODE website
Description: Planning My Way to Work is a guide for students with disabilities and their families to help you navigate services and community resources on your path from school to work.
Description: For Job Seekers, we offer: Career Exploration, Job Placement, Job Retention.
For Employers, we offer: Needs Analysis, Staff Support, Optimization Consulting, Disability Awareness, Community inclusion training, Communication training
For Job Developers, we offer: Training, Professional Development, Consulting
Description: Established in 1968, Exceed Enterprises is a non-profit organization that excels in providing vocational and personal development services for people with disabilities.
Description: Grassroots Employment Services For Employers; Train, Educate, and Motivate Latino Participants Focusing on Employment; Serving Latino Job Seekers with Disabilities in Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas, Marion and Polk Counties; Implementing a holistic approach to reducing barriers to employment; Fully integrating job seekers into the current workforce development system