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A web-based resource for people with disabilities, their families and their supporters. Disability Compass provides access to thousands of disability-related organizations, services, programs and products.
Provide expertise and serve as a resource to the workforce investment system and individuals with disabilities throughout the state by linking people with disabilities with services to help them find and retain jobs. Includes contact information for Oregon Navigators.
Promotes best practices in hiring, retaining and marketing to people with disabilities. Activities include career fairs, disability mentoring and internship programs and training programs on disability business etiquette, accommodation and other disability issues of importance to employers.
Provides links to organizations in the state that offer employment assistance, vocational rehabilitation (VR) and other support services to Social Security disability beneficiaries.
As one of over sixty University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities in the country, the organization works to expand and improve services for people with disabilities and their families.
Offers programs and services that help Oregon residents with disabilities go to work or stay independent in their homes and communities.
Each center provides career counseling, career planning, resume assistance, direct job placement, classroom and on-the-job training, information about local and national labor markets and unemployment compensation.
Oregon BizCenter is the state's SBDC. SBDCs offer one-stop assistance to individuals and small businesses by providing information and guidance in central and easily accessible branch locations. Enter your zipcode in the box on the locations page of the Web site for contact information for the office closest to where you live.
Information from Business.gov, an online resource to help businesses quickly find compliance information, forms and contacts from the government.
Empowers individuals with developmental disabilities to dream and achieve careers and community inclusion.
If you receive disability benefits from the Social Security Administration and are interested in working or learning more about how working would affect your benefits, you can get help from a community organization known as a Work Incentive Planning and Assistance (WIPA) project.
Provides information on resources and services available to Oregon jobseekers with disabilities.
A Medicaid program designed to help people who have disabilities go to work while maintaining their Medicaid coverage.
Program serves persons with low incomes who are 55 years old or older and have poor employment prospects. The program has two purposes: to provide useful community services and to foster individual economic self-sufficiency through training and job placement in unsubsidized jobs.
