Oregon
This bill requires school districts to provide parents of children with disabilities with information and training resources to remain engaged in the child’s secondary education and post-school outcomes. This information will be provided at each IEP meeting that includes discussion of postsecondary education goals and transition services.
This bill directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to convene a work group to analyze and make recommendations on how to address disparities in higher education among traditionally marginalized, underserved and underrepresented communities, including people with disabilities.
This bill establishes that the employment of individuals with developmental disabilities in fully-integrated work settings is the highest priority over unemployment, segregated employment, facility-based employment or day habilitation (i.e. services that assist people in acquiring, retaining or improving self-help, socialization and adaptive skills).
This bill establishes a minimum hourly rate schedule that employers who are authorized to employ individuals with disabilities at subminimum wage must pay their employees.
This program enables students at the Oregon School for the Deaf to learn additional workforce skills until the age of 21. It is divided into the College Bound program, which enables students to take classes through a local community college with additional support, and the Extended Studies Program, which focuses on building independent living skills.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Education, Oregon School for the Deaf
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This program enables individuals with disabilities, service providers and others to learn about, access, and acquire assistive technology needed for education, employment, and community living. Services include device demonstrations, reutilization, loans, and financing.
Operating Entity: Access Technologies Inc.
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program provides consultation and information for those receiving disability benefits, who need help understanding eligibility and the impact work may have on their benefits.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
The Business Enterprise Program helps people who are blind become food service or vending operators.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This week-long, immersive leadership camp helps youth with disabilities develop self-advocacy and social skills while giving them paid work experience and career exposure in the natural resources industry. It is a collaboration between the Youth Transition Program (YTP) within the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, and Oregon State Parks.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
CCS is a postsecondary education program for students with intellectual disabilities. It provides students an opportunity to take college classes, engage in career development and independent living activities, and participate in campus life.
Operating Entity: Portland State University
Entity Type: College / University
CAP helps individuals who experience problems when applying for or receiving vocational rehabilitation or independent living services. This includes advising and informing individuals of their rights and providing advocacy services.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program helps ensure underserved parents of children with disabilities, including low-income parents, parents of children who are English learners, and parents with disabilities, have the training and information they need to enable them to participate effectively in helping their children.
Operating Entity: Northwest Disability Support
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program provides deaf students with independent living skill training and work experience, and trains them on employability skills.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Education, Oregon School for the Deaf
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This program provides job development assistance, coaching, resume workshops, mock interviews, and English classes to help individuals with disabilities who either have a language barrier or speak English as a second language attain employment.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program assists young people with early onset psychiatric disabilities by helping them obtain and maintain employment. It is a collaboration between the Center for Human Development and the Oregon Health Authority, with input from the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program includes internship programs and job training and coaching services to help people with disabilities attain employment. It also includes the Latino Connection program, which provides training and education to Latino and non-native English speaking participants focusing on employment.
Operating Entity: Easterseals Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program helps adolescents and young adults with disabilities to transition from school into productive employment. Services include strengths assessments and planning. It is a collaboration between the Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Oregon.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program provides financial literacy training to individuals and families with disabilities, with support from MetLife Financial and Capital Area Asset Builders.
Operating Entity: The Arc of Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program provides a range of independent living services to people with disabilities at Centers for Independent Living across the state. Services include help connecting to local services, assistance with job searches, local transit skills training, assistive technology help, peer mentoring support, assistance with school-to-career transitions, self-advocacy help, and more.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program offers a Masters of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling, as well as a Masters of Science in Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling for the Deaf (RCD), which is one of only four deafness specialty programs in the United States.
Operating Entity: Western Oregon University (WOU)
Entity Type: College / University
This program enables eligible individuals with disabilities to save money in a tax-exempt account that may be used for qualified disability expenses while keeping their eligibility for federally-funded, means-tested public benefits. Eligible expenses include education, employment training and support, and assistive technology.
Operating Entity: Oregon Treasurer's Office
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This program supports families and parents of children with developmental disabilities, by connecting them to resources. It focuses on helping them become strong advocates for their children and to build healthier family units, and is made up of 3,500 families who help families connect with other families and their communities.
Operating Entity: Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities
Entity Type: Other
This program provides technical assistance to mental health agencies providing Individual Placement and Support (IPS) Supported Employment. It oversees the fidelity of the 37 programs that currently offer IPS services throughout the state, and educates and advises local and state-level policymakers. It is a partnership between the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, the IPS Employment Center, and Options for Southern Oregon.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program provides services to transition-age youth with disabilities to support their employment or career-related postsecondary education or training goals. It services include individualized planning, academic and vocational instruction, instruction in independent living, career development services, and connection to paid employment opportunities. It is a collaboration between the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, the Oregon Department of Education, and the University of Oregon.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This in-depth residential training program provides people who are blind or visually impaired with training and assistance on how to adapt to employment opportunities, utilize adaptive devices, explore career options, and develop various other career preparatory skills. Clients can also learn specific trades, such as woodworking.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This program supports Parent Training and Information Centers and Community Parent Resource Centers in 11 western states plus two territories. Services include one-to-one consultations, trainings and webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring, site visits, non-profit management tools, and more.
Operating Entity: PEAK Parent Center
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program provides a variety of direct services for children and youth with disabilities, families, professionals, and other organizations that support them. This includes helping parents participate effectively in their children’s education and development and partnering with professionals and policymakers to improve outcomes for children with disabilities.
Operating Entity: Family and Community Together (FACT) Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program provides classes and mentoring to help people with developmental disabilities share information and skills to attain employment. It is a collaboration between the Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities (OCDD) and the Oregon Self Advocacy Coalition (OSAC).
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
Pre-ETS assist students with disabilities in identifying career interests and developing skills to be successful in the workplace. This includes five required activities: job exploration counseling, work-based learning experiences, workplace readiness training, counseling on comprehensive transition or postsecondary educational programs, and instruction in self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program establishes, implements, and evaluates a multi-level interagency transition model, which includes bringing vocational rehabilitation counselors into high school settings so they can collaborate with special education teachers in the planning and delivery of transition services. It is a collaboration between public high schools in three school districts, Oregon Vocational Rehabilitation, and the University of Oregon.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
Project SEARCH is a one-year transition-to-work program for students with significant disabilities that includes classroom instruction, career exploration, and internship rotations. It is a collaboration between local businesses, state agencies, local school systems, and other entities, and is offered at several locations.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program protects individuals with disabilities by empowering them and advocating on their behalf. This includes providing information and referrals, providing training and technical assistance to service providers, and conducting self-advocacy training.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
SWEP includes a five-week foundational program and a six-week more advanced program each summer in which youth who are blind or visually impaired engage in paid employment experiences and live in residences to develop skills in independent living and self-advocacy.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This seven-week program at Portland State University enables students to live in the dorms, work at paid internships, and engage in activities and classes for career exploration. Through the program, participants develop independent living and work skills, and gain confidence and awareness.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Human Services, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This program provides job development, job coaching, and employment path services to people with developmental disabilities through county Community Developmental Disability Programs (CDDPs).
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Human Services, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This program provides technical assistance to support the provision of transition services in school, through a number of Transition Network Facilitators. Services include providing consultation, training, and technical assistance around the development and implementation if IEPs, student goals and plans, and secondary transition curricula.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Education, Special Education
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This program provides culturally relevant vocational rehabilitation services to assist Alaska Native and American Indian individuals with disabilities residing on or near reservations in the state to prepare for and engage in gainful employment. Program services are provided under an individualized plan for employment.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
Universal Access Navigators provide information to WorkSource Oregon staff regarding service delivery for customers with a disability or with multiple barriers to employment. For example, they provide information on assistive technology and accommodations that WSO staff can use to assist employers who will be employing individuals with disabilities. WorkSource Oregon is a statewide partnership with the Oregon Employment Department and state, local, and nonprofit agencies.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program help out-of-school and in-school youth with one or more barriers to employment (including having a disability) prepare for and secure employment and postsecondary education opportunities. Services include tutoring; work experiences; occupational skills training; leadership development opportunities; and postsecondary education and training preparation activities.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program helps individuals with disabilities who are receiving Social Security Disability benefits make informed choices about work and make a successful transition to self-sufficiency.
Operating Entity: Disability Rights Oregon
Entity Type: Non-Profit / Community Organization
This program provides services to help young adults (17.5 to 25 years old) who experience complex behavioral health challenges develop the skills they need for successful transition into adulthood. Services include supported education and employment services.
Operating Entity: Oregon Health Authority, Child and Family Behavioral Health
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This program offers Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS), including instruction in self-advocacy and job exploration counseling, to help youth who are blind or visually impaired prepare for employment. It includes a collaboration with the Northwest Association for Blind Athletes (NWABA) to provide exposure to social and environmental experiences that prepare them for dealing with challenges and opportunities in independent living and work.
Operating Entity: Oregon Commission for the Blind
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This program is designed to engage marginalized youth – including those with mental health conditions – through accessible and developmentally appropriate services, including employment support and skills training. It is overseen by the Oregon Health Authority and implemented at a county level.
Operating Entity: --
Entity Type: Multi-Stakeholder Project
This program provides a range of Pre-Employment Transition Services (Pre-ETS) and other services to help youth with disabilities transition to post-secondary education or employment. The program includes a partnership with AntFarm to provide work experiences in gardening and farming, Motivational Enhancement Group Intervention interviewing to help students gain self-advocacy skills, and benefits planning services. The Office of Vocational Rehabilitation also collaborates with Early Assessment and Support Alliance (EASA) to provide career support services to youth with psychosis.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Human Services, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Entity Type: State Agency / Office
This webpage contains links that address mental health including guided meditations and suicide prevention resources for people who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Human Services
Topic(s): Mental Health
This webpage provides links to crisis hotlines and warm lines and information about substance use disorder prevention for parents and caregivers to support children and youth to address mental health issues and crises as a result of the pandemic.
Operating Entity: Oregon Health Authority
Topic(s): Mental Health
This webpage contains information about mental health in response to the pandemic. It includes a link to a webinar about mindfulness and fliers with information. There is also information about dealing with stress.
Operating Entity: Oregon Educators Benefit Board
Topic(s): Mental Health
This webpage includes information from the Oregon Health Authority about Long-COVID and also links to two informational articles.
Operating Entity: Jackson County Health and Human Services
Topic(s): Long-COVID
The Oregon Department of Education has provided a list of resources for families and educators participating in distance learning with students with disabilities. It provides families with resources to best engage with their child's distance learning process, up-to-date policies on Oregon distance learning requirements for special education students, and links to telehealth services fulfilling special education needs.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Education
This webpage is a culmination of resources for school leaders, families, and caregivers during distance learning. It includes resources helping schools adjust to providing special education services virtually, telehealth services for students with disabilities, virtual mental health services for students with disabilities, and educational and informational resources for families attempting to help their student with a disability adjust to online learning
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Education
This article describes how caregiving during COVID-19 can impact women's health and contains coping tips.
Operating Entity: Oregon Health and Science University Center for Women's Health
Topic(s): Mental Health
This post is about anxiety and how it may show up during the pandemic. It includes tips and strategies to address stress and personal stories of people who have experienced anxiety due to COVID-19. There are links to county-specific mental and behavioral health services and additional information to address anxiety, stress and change from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Operating Entity: Multnomah County
Topic(s): Mental Health
This webpage contains information about COVID-19 organized by source and includes a link to the Mt. Sinai Health System about Long-COVID.
Operating Entity: Rogue Community College
Topic(s): Long-COVID
This document requires that Oregon school districts provide students with disabilities both telehealth and remote mental health services, as needed. It discusses the legal requirements and limitations of online health services, including telehealth and tele counseling. The document further illustrates requirements for determining whether students with disabilities should return to in-person instruction or continue distance learning. The document requires all IEP services to be held virtually, provides resources and information for IEP teams conducting such virtual meetings, and discusses conditions under which IEP teams should adjust student IEPs.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Education
This webpage contains a section titled Tips for Coping and Talking with Children with information for parents that emphasizes reducing stress and anxiety that may arise from dealing with the pandemic.
Operating Entity: Oregon State University Family Resource Center
Topic(s): Mental Health
This document provides best practices for parents and teachers attempting to support students' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. It also provides links to federal websites for additional mental health and COVID-19 information.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Education
Topic(s): Mental Health
This document was created to support mental health and wellness during the pandemic. It contains 10 links to informational resources to support mental health such as podcasts, videos and articles. There is information about supporting emotional well-being, wellness routines, managing fear and anxiety, parenting tips and gratitude.
Operating Entity: State of Oregon Employment Department
Topic(s): Mental Health
The Oregon Employment Department has created a list of job fairs and events to assist transition age youth. However, due to COVID-19, they have adjusted these events to be held completely online.
Operating Entity: Oregon Employment Department
Topic(s): Transition
Oregon's legislature allots $1.35 billion to a few different programs to expand and support Oregon's behavioral health system in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Operating Entity: Oregon Health Authority
Topic(s): Mental Health
This document contains general strategies for mental wellness, information on how to integrate self-care into daily life and methods to improve mental health. The document also contains links to additional resources about coping, mindfulness, grounding, self-care and emotional intelligence and information about Oregon mental health organizations.
Operating Entity: Office of Community and Civic Life
Topic(s): Mental Health
This webpage contains links to resources that address mental health needs that might arise during the pandemic - such as at-home mindfulness and managing anxiety - and provides a list of other health and well-being resources.
Operating Entity: City of Portland Bureau of Human Resources
Topic(s): Mental Health
The SafeStrong initiative was started to provide information and resources in 12 different languages about COVID-19. This webpage on mental health includes links to access care based on race, age, sexuality and location. A link to information about signs, symptoms and self-care related to COVID-19.
Operating Entity: SafeStrong
Topic(s): Mental Health
This online class offers a mindfulness class specifically to address symptoms of Long-COVID such as fatigue, breath dysregulation, anxiety and frustration.
Operating Entity: Oregon Health and Science University
This blog, run by the Oregon Health Authority, contains posts about Long-COVID and the pandemic's impact on mental health. Posts about Long-COVID include information about symptoms, how it affects certain organs, how it is protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act and personal stories. Posts highlight mental health concerns and share information about increased risk of suicide by LGBTQ2SIA+ youth, change fatigue, school-based health centers and personal stories.
Operating Entity: Oregon Health Authority
The school reopening guidelines from the Oregon Department of Education include links to Care and Connection, an initiative about connecting with students and supporting them, particularly in light of their mental health. It also provides resources created by the department to address a myriad of mental health topics such as loss, trauma and suicide.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Education
Topic(s): Mental Health
This webpage contains links to original and community resources that address mental health and wellness during the pandemic. It contains links to hotlines, resources for depression and anxiety and culturally-specific behavioral health resources. There are also links to community organizations created in response to the pandemic.
Operating Entity: Portland Safe Routes to School
Topic(s): Mental Health
This webpage, created to address potential mental health needs that might arise during COVID-19, contains links to different crises resources and hotlines for domestic and sexual violence, suicide prevention, alcohol and drug abuse, youth crises, elder care, financial exploitation and abuse.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Human Services
Topic(s): Mental Health
This document contains information about mental health practices like taking care of one's emotional health and meditating as part of suicide prevention. It is written specifically to address mental health concerns due to the pandemic.
Operating Entity: Oregon Department of Human Services
Topic(s): Mental Health
This webpage defines Long-COVID and provides information on what people should do if they have persistent symptoms. It also links to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, since Long-COVID is recognized as a qualifying condition. It provides a link to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on Long-COVID.
Operating Entity: Washington County Health and Human Services, Disease Control and Prevention
Topic(s): Long-COVID
This webpage contains links to mental health resources in response to the pandemic. Along with a handout and links to mental health organizations, the webpage offers links and fliers about managing stress.
Operating Entity: Hood River County Sheriff's Office Emergency Management
Topic(s): Mental Health
This webpage provides resources specifically for youth and potential mental health issues they may encounter during the pandemic. The page features some general mental health care information about what to do when stressed, links to self-care resources to build mindfulness and hotlines and links for caregivers and advocates in supporting youth with their mental health.
Operating Entity: Multnomah County
Topic(s): Mental Health