FACT Oregon - FAMILY AND COMMUNITY TOGETHER]
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Mission Statement
Empowering Oregon families experiencing disability in their pursuit of a whole life by expanding awareness, growing community, and equipping families.
About This Cause
FACT Oregon empowers families and transforms how communities perceive disability. Our peer support, trainings, and resources equip and empower families, transform how they see disability, and help them have high expectations and dream big dreams for their children. We draw on the lived experience of our team, many themselves parents of youth experiencing disability, and call out the critically important role of parent/caregiver as a child’s number one fan and advocate. FACT Oregon holds that disability is a natural part of the human condition and that people experiencing it have the right and ability to create fulfilling, whole, self-determined lives. We appreciate that parents/caregivers are subject matter experts on their children and are best equipped to help set a north star and a positive trajectory for their lives when they are supported to do so. We educate families on how to advocate, navigate systems, and build communities in which their children thrive. We believe in inclusion and that we are all part of a larger, diverse community in which everyone has strengths and something to contribute. We strive to create supports that are accessible to all families, with the idea that no child or family should feel alone. We believe that systems should empower families rather than frustrate or impede, and we work towards that goal. We believe ableism must be addressed and dismantled and that there is no such thing as “too disabled” for self-determination. We believe that, with imagination and creativity, families can discover the right supports to increase their children’s independence and make a whole life possible. Families we support will realize that messy, full, self-determined, independent lives, with real relationships in communities is possible. Key Programs: Support Line staffed by parents of youth experiencing disability to provide personalized support navigating disability and special education services and systems Trainings for families experiencing disability and the professionals who work with them on a wide range of special education, disability, and whole life topics Birth-5 Outreach: Our Dream To Go Far storybook is now available as a multilingual English-Spanish soft cover to welcome families new to disability and present a vision of a whole, full life. In addition, we are currently in translation and design for Vietnamese and Russian editions. All Ability Tri4Youth Program, transforming the face of disability in sport and recreation Parent Leadership and Systems Change: centering the voices and needs of families experiencing disability in legislative and policy advocacy