Families

NICWA helps families navigate complex systems by providing resources and advocacy tools on child welfare, kinship care, ICWA rights, Native ancestry, and more.

The Mental Health Association of Portland is the Oregon’s impartial and independent advocate for persons with mental illness and addiction. Their task is to help persons with a diagnosis of mental illness or addiction speak up and speak out – and to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.

This center encompasses many programs based in Portland with some satellite sites throughout the state. Their four primary focus areas are: clinical service, public health and outreach activities, education programs, and research projects.

Connects families, caregivers and friends of children with disabilities to resources, information and training. Families come to the Swindells Center seeking answers to many of the questions that surface in their everyday lives. We offer resources specific to disabilities and conditions, as well as information on respite options, recreation, educational options and other day-to-day issues. Their Care Notebook functions as a personal health record and helps parents coordinate the complex records of their child's care, services and providers.

This is a parent driven organization that supports families with children who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing without a bias around communication modes or methodology.

This is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to championing the journey to full inclusion in families, schools, communities and the workplace for people with Down syndrome or other developmental disabilities. Through a series of personal appearances, motivating speeches, video tapes and resource materials Karen Gaffney, a young woman with Down syndrome, and others like her will...Instill renewed hope for a full productive and inclusive life in the hearts and minds of new parents of a child born with Down syndrome or other learning disability.

The Oregon Family to Family Health Information Center provides information to families who are navigating the complex world of special health care needs. We are family members ourselves, who have firsthand experience raising a child or youth with a chronic health condition, developmental delay or disability, or emotional/behavioral challenges.

FACT is a family leadership organization for individuals and their families experiencing disabilities, working collaboratively to facilitate positive change in policies, systems, and attitudes, through family support, advocacy, and partnerships.

The mission of the Epilepsy Foundation is to lead the fight to overcome challenges of living with epilepsy and to accelerate therapies to stop seizures, find cures, and save lives.

DSNO is a faith-based support group that provides comfort and acceptance for families, friends and individuals with Down syndrome. It is our goal to use community outreach events to create a vision of hope and awareness to demonstrate that every life brings value to the world. The values that guide our mission are advocacy, inclusiveness, equality and respect for life, compassion, comfort, hope and faith.