The Oregon Competitive Employment Project seeks to enhance the quality of life in Oregon by achieving, maintaining and advancing the competitive and inclusive employment of persons with disabilities. The project is funded by a four-year Medicaid Infrastructure Grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and is part of the Oregon Department of Human Services, Office of Vocational Rehabilitation Services.

Download a presentation describing grant activities (updated 5/27/2008)

Oregon Business Leadership Network’s new video "Look at My Ability" (1/18/2008) (WMV)

Read the Oregon Business Leadership Network's May 2008 interview with Neil Romano, the new Assistant Secretary for the Office of Disability Employment Policy at www.obln.org

Read Oregon’s Medicaid Infrastructure Grant’s quarterly Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports

2008 - First quarter, Second quarter, Third quarter, Forth quarter

2007 - First quarter, Second quarter, Third quarter, Forth quarter

2006 - First quarter, Second quarter, Third quarter, Fourth quarter

For 2002 - 2005 reports  please contact Paula Fitch, 503-947-5469

Current Initiatives

Work Incentives Network (WIN!), Oregon’s Benefits and Work Incentives Planning System

• Welcome to the 2008 Work Incentives Network - updated 6/20/2008 - (Power Point)

• Workbenefits.org

• Planning for Work, Oregon’s Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program

• Employed Persons with Disabilities, Oregon’s Medicaid Buy-In Program
  • EPD changes

• Individual Development Accounts

• Ticket to Work Program 
  • Read the new proposed regulations for the Ticket to Work Program
  • Read about the March 2008 Social Security Administration’s Ticket to Work Summit

• Social Security Administration
  

Supported employment for historically underserved populations

• Supported employment for persons diagnosed with serious mental illness
  • Oregon Supported Employment Center for Excellence
  • Concept Paper on Supported Employment for People with Psychiatric Disabilities for Oregon Medicaid Infrastructure Grant (MIG)/ Oregon Competitive Employment Project
  • Dartmouth Supported Employment Center
  • Options for Southern Oregon
  • Lifeworks Northwest
  • United States Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration Supported Employment Evidence-Based Practices: Shaping Mental Health Services Toward Recovery
    
    
• Supported employment for persons with developmental disabilities
  • Supported Employment for Oregonians with DD: Recommendations for Action
  • Oregon Developmental Disabilities Supported Employment
  • State Employment Leadership Network
  • Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities
    
    
• Supported employment for persons with acquired/traumatic brain injury
  • Employment for Persons with Brain Injuries in Oregon
  • Brain Injury Association of Oregon 
  • Brain Injury Recovery Kit
  • Brain Injury Resource Network of Oregon

Employer supports

• Oregon Business Leadership Network

Youth and young adults transition to work

• Oregon Department of Community College and Workforce Development Youth Conservation Corps
• Strategic Planning Concept Paper Youth Transition
• The Oregon Parent Training and Information Center
• Oregon Department of Education Transition Toolbox
• Oregon Youth Transition Program
• Oregon Business Leadership Network Transition Information
• Incight: Resources for Self-Empowerment

Transportation

• Oregon Dept. of Transportation Public Transit Division
• Ride Connection
• United We Ride
  

Culturally competent supports and services

• "A Review of Oregon Cultural Compentence Service Capacity: Now and Next"

Newsletters

2008

• Spring 2008 PDF | Word

2007

• Fall 2007, PDF | Word
• Summer 2007, PDF | Word
• Spring 2007, PDF | Word

2006

• December 2006, PDF | Word
• August 2006, PDF | Word
• May 2006, PDF | Word
• September 2005, PDF | Word
• August 2005, PDF | Word

Contact information

For meeting schedules or other information, please contact Paula Fitch.

Page Updated: May 27, 2008

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