Founded in 1989, Community Vision is the largest nonprofit organization providing individualized housing, supported living, employment and homeownership services to people with disabilities and their families in Oregon. Community Vision has proven that assisting one person at a time to live in their own home provides the stability they need to work, live and thrive in the communities of their choice.
- Over 125 dedicated direct-care staff members are in the community everyday assisting the people that we serve in their homes, at their places of employment and in the community to live safe and tremendously improved lives.
- Community Vision helps people live productively with dignity. Prior to being served by the agency people didn't have the opportunity to make basic choices about where they worked and lived.
- Community Vision has demonstrated for more than a decade that Oregonians with disabilities can live productively, with dignity, and greater self-determination at vastly reduced cost to taxpayers.
Community Vision has extensive programming that focuses on the needs of the individual with the goal of helping people with disabilities to work, live and thrive in the communities of their choice.
- Homeownership Independence Project – Since 1999, this program has facilitated the purchase of more than 75 homes for low-income adults and families with disabilities, and Community Vision staff work with local builders to ensure that homes built meet the accessibility specifications in the Americans with Disabilities Act.
- In-home Support – Trained and trusted support staff assist one person at a time to live in their own home, providing the stability they need to work, volunteer and actively participate in communities of their choice.
- Employment & Job Coaching – Community Vision staff members work with each individual we serve to create an employment/volunteer plan to work in the community at jobs of their choice alongside their non-disabled peers.
Donor Dollars Used Wisely
- 100% of our income stays in local communities
- We spend 92% of our income on programs, among the highest in the nation, and only 8% on general administration and fundraising costs.
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Community Vision would like to thank our Board of Directors
for all of their hard work and support.
Thomas O’Shaughnessy, JD – Board President
Lynne Cartwright-Lipscomb, Financial/Tax Advisor – Vice President
Jon Dalton, Universal Concepts - Secretary
M. Michelle Weisenbach, US Bank – Treasurer
Elaine Vardas, President – Disability Navigators
Stacy Bellwood, Custom Business Solutions
Melissa Halstead, Self-advocate
Community Vision
1750 SW Skyline Blvd., Suite 102
Portland, OR 97221
Phone-503.292.4964
Fax-503.292.6485
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