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. 

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.

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. 

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.