About Us
What do we do?
Educate families to support their children’s launch into adulthood being well-prepared, supported, capable, and integrated into their communities.
Bridge the transition of services when students graduate from high school
Unlock their self-determination & agency
Build basic life skills
Continually raise the autonomy level of our clients so they can live independently.
Right-size guardianship options for families and provide parents with solutions for independent living that lifts the burden of lifelong care.
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We provide a framework to accomplish goals with the flexibility needed to adjust and ensure you stay on track.
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Create community space, host local events, and partner with local businesses to foster deep connection in the community.
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Advocacy Mission: To maximize the rights and opportunities of people with disabilities across the state. We support simplifying systems of support, ensuring that people with special needs have rights equivalent to any fully able person, and support the creation of systems of support that allow people to live fully autonomous lives.
Current Political Advocacy Priorities
Building coalitions of communities of interest. Right of Passage is committed to ensuring that our systems of support are supportive for all different needs and we are committed to facilitating and integrating as many diverse perspectives as possible and representing them in our legislative proposals.
Improving Guardianship Systems: The current one size fits all system of guardianship is not flexible enough to meet the diverse needs of the people that need additional support. Right of Passage supports any systemic and process improvements that facilitate the flexibility needed to meet the various different levels of need experienced by people with different issues and in different stages of life.
Supporting Rights to Family. Oregon currently prevents some people with disabilities from functioning as parents for their children because of their perceived lack of capability. We categorically deny that any families should be separated due to a physical disability and instead support measures to provide necessary assistance to people with additional needs.
Removing age related support barriers. Many people with Autism, ADHD, and other conditions that require additional needs are often unaware of them until much later in life. Currently late life diagnoses of Autism prevent the receipt of assistance from state programs from flowing to a lost generation of people those programs were designed to help. We support assistance flowing to all people who need it rather than an arbitrary age based competency assessment determining access to assistance.