Category: Advocacy

Advocacy Days 2020

2/14/2020

UCP Oregon believes that everyone should have a voice.

That's why this year, like every year, we supported lots of UCP customers as they attended the"GO Project Advocacy Days" in Salem.

Our customers advocated for their needs, and met and worked with folks from other Oregon organizations such as Oregon Developmental Disabilities Coalition and Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities.

Thank you to everyone who was involved!

Goals for Public Policy

10/17/2019

As you're probably aware, UCP Oregon is an affiliate of a national organization, which is called United Cerebral Palsy. That group partnered with several other organizations* to create a "policy guide" about the changes we'd like to see nationwide!

Read it here.

*American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; American Network of Community Options and Resources; Autism Society of America; National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities; and The Arc).

UCP Launches "This Is Our Voice"

1/17/2019

Did you know that there is currently a workforce crisis in the Intellectual / Developmental Disabilities field?

It's increasingly hard to hire and keep great care providers. Throughout Oregon, customers are dealing with increasingly high turnover. Staff are dealing with too much overtime and not enough training or resources.

Advocacy Days 2020

Goals for Public Policy

UCP Launches "This Is Our Voice"

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