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Outreach Grantee: Oregon

July 19, 2002

Oregon Health & Science University, Oregon Institute on Disability & Development UCEDD

Location

Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California, Alaska, Guam, American Samoa and Hawaii

Program Summary

This project focuses on persons from physical, developmental, psychiatric and sensory disability groups. Regional disability liaisons link individuals and organizations from each disability group with national service programs. Disability organizations receive mini-grants to facilitate participation in outreach and recruitment activities, and to develop and disseminate accessible outreach and recruitment products (fact sheets, pamphlets, guides, web sites, and PSAs) aimed at persons with disabilities, teachers, and national service programs and sponsors. Annual regional summits enable organizations to network and identify best practices.

Goals

  • Create linkages between Corporation for National Service programs and over 300 disability based local, regional, and national organizations.
  • Increase the awareness of national service opportunities among approximately 150,000 individuals who experience disabilities.
  • Triple the number of applications for national service programs received from individuals who experience disability in the 13 Western states and territories.
  • Double the amount of accommodation funding used by state commissions to support the involvement of individuals with disabilities in the 13 Western states and territories.
  • National service programs will demonstrate increased knowledge of disability issues and recruitment strategies.
  • Double the rate of successful placement of persons with disabilities in national service programs and projects.

Activities

  • Provide regional disability liaison support to each state.
  • Provide systematic state and local planning assistance.
  • Award outreach mini grants to disability organizations.
  • Develop and distribute accessible outreach and recruitment products.
  • Develop tools to identify persons with disabilities in outreach activities.
  • Conduct annual regional summits.
  • Establish outreach linkages with national disability organizations.

Partners

Partners include The Center on Self-Determination at Oregon Health Sciences University national, state and local disability organizations and national service programs in the states and territories listed above.

Contact Information

Laurie Powers and Dean Westwood
Oregon Health and Science University
Oregon Institute on Disability & Development (a UCE)
3608 S.E. Powell Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202
(503) 232-9154, ext. 104 (Laurie Powers) and ext. 112 (Dean Westwood)
[email protected]
[email protected]
http://www.ohsu.edu/cdrc/uap