Family+Services

//** Community Works— **// //** Strengthening Lives to Change Community. **// //** Strengthening Community to Change lives **////**. **// //** Community Works **//// strives to strengthen lives and __#|the community__ by responding to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, and high-need youth and their families, through support services and advocacy. They provide services to women, men, and children who are or have been victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. They also provide // a nurturing and educational therapeutic environment that promotes personal growth and healing for youth ages 13 to 18 with behavioral and emotional problems and their families. //They also provide// services to youth and their families or adults who are in need of mental health, outreach resources and support. Their programs provide support to runaway and __#|homeless__ youth, psychosocial assessments, service planning with the individual and family; individual and family counseling, group counseling, professional consultation, using the empowerment model.

Phone:(541)779-2393 Toll Free: 1-855-216-2111 info@community-works.org []
 * HelpLine **:(541)779-4357

Developmental Disabilities Program—Jackson County

The Developmental Disabilities Program provides specialized case management to eligible individuals who experience mental retardation, cerebral palsy, autism spectrum disorders, epilepsy, and other developmental disabilities. Program responsibilities include the provision of protective service actions as well as thorough investigation of abuse and neglect for adult living in provider agencies as well as family homes; crisis __#|intervention__; quality assurance in sub-contracted residential and vocational services; licensing and monitoring of foster homes; administration of family support for minor children; and authorization of Medicaid support services for adults. The Developmental Disabilities Program is helping to meet County goal: (1) Protect the health, safety, and well being of all citizens.

1915 Hazel St. Medford, Oregon 97501
 * Phone:** (541) 774-8205
 * Fax:** (541) 774-7978
 * Business Hours:** 8am – Noon, 1pm – 4pm weekdays

Judy Harris
 * Email:** HarrisJL@jacksoncounty.org

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As the Community Action Agency of Jackson County, ACCESS has been helping Jackson County residents break the cycle of poverty since 1976. With a focus on education, ACCESS helps people through economic crisis by guiding them through changes in habits to help them become self-sustaining. ACCESS currently serves local residents through 15 programs designed to address problems from one-time emergencies to longer-term issues. The wide variety of programs provide assistance with food, housing, weatherization and medical bills requires for survival.
 * Access—Helping People Help Themselves **
 * ACCESS Helps! **
 * They provide food, housing, warmth and other essential services to Jackson County's low __#|income__ children, families, seniors and people with disabilities. **

PO Box 4666, Medford OR 97501 3630 Aviation Way Medford, OR 97504

**Phone:** 541-779-6691 **Fax:** 541-779-8886 **Contact:** Jackie Schad, Executive Director **Email:** jschad@accesshelps.org **Hours:** 8 AM to 5 PM, M-F []



__#|Disability__ Rights Oregon (DRO) promotes Opportunity, Access and Choice for individuals with disabilities by assisting them with legal problems directly related to their disabilities. We do this in a variety of ways, which include:


 * Promoting awareness among people with disabilities of their rights under the law
 * Providing information, tools and referrals that empower individuals to advocate on their own behalf
 * Investigating and, when appropriate, addressing reports of abuse and/or neglect
 * Representing individuals in cases where legal expertise is needed
 * Pursuing policy changes that benefit many people with disabilities, both now and into the future
 * Litigation when necessary

DRO does not charge for its services; however, they receive more requests for direct advocacy than they can accommodate. Priority is given to cases in which the individual whose rights are being violated could not otherwise afford legal assistance. Approximately 90 percent of the people we represent are low-income and could not otherwise obtain the legal advice or representation they need.

Go to website to fill out forms or call if necessary

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 * Voice: ** 503-243-2081 or 1-800-452-1694


 * Fax: **503-243-1738

hours are 9am - 12p, 1pm - 5pm, Monday - Friday. Voicemail is available 24/7. All calls are confidential.


 * __Listo __**

Medford SD Education Center (old South Medford High School)- Medford schools 815 S. Oakdale Medford, Oregon 97501

October- May Tuesdays and Thursdays (Must attend both days) 5:30pm-8:00pm

Mountain View Elementary School- White City 7837 Hale Way White City, OR 97503

October- May Mondays and Wednesdays (Must attend both days) 5:30pm-8:00pm

Contact person - Victoria Barnhart 541.770.1678 x 1049


 * Limited spots available **
 * <span style="color: #a71616; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 160%;">Requires a teacher referral **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 120%;">Listo is a project of Southern Oregon Head Start in collaboration with Rogue Community College (RCC) and the Southern Oregon Education Service District (SOESD). The purpose of the project is to give families support in their native language that improves the connection with children’s school experiences. At Medford SD Education Center and Mountain View Elementary School we are offering Latino families a chance to engage in a culturally and linguistically comfortable environment. Since 1994, Listo has served as an educational support system for parents, meeting their needs to learn English and gain basic literacy skills in Spanish to complete studies in primary and secondary subject matter. In order to surmount the high cost of childcare, Listo provides developmentally and culturally appropriate classrooms for children aged zero to fifteen during the time that parents attend ESL and adult education classes. In addition to English, GED (in Medford) and INEA curriculum, parents are given parenting information, work on computers and have opportunities to engage in educational activities with their children.

<span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 64px; text-align: center;">Parent‐Child Interaction Therapy <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 150%; text-align: center;">WEBSITE: http://pcit.phhp.ufl.edu/ <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">If you would like more information on this practice, contact Greta Coe at <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">greta.l.costate.or.us or 503‐945‐6187 or see below <span style="color: #404040; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: center;">for local providers.



<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21.3333px;">What is PCIT?

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) is an empirically-supported treatment for conduct-disordered young children that places emphasis on improving the quality of the parent-child relationship and changing parent-child interaction patterns. In PCIT, parents are taught specific skills to establish a nurturing and secure relationship with their child while increasing their child’s prosocial behavior and decreasing negative behavior. This treatment focuses on two basic interactions: Child Directed Interaction (CDI) is similar to play therapy in that parents engage their child in a play situation with the goal of strengthening the parent-child relationship; Parent Directed Interaction (PDI) resembles clinical behavior therapy in that parents learn to use specific behavior management techniques as they play with their child.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 21.3333px;">The PCIT Story
<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sheila M. Eyberg <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This article was published in the first issue of “PCIT Pages: The Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Newsletter” in 2004 (vol. 1; pp. 1-2).

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Where did it all begin? Perhaps it started in graduate school at the University of Oregon in the late ‘60’s where I was trained in the “new” behavior modification approach to psychotherapy. In most of the clinical psychology world, children’s problems were treated in individual play therapy, but my first training cases involved training parents to change their child’s behaviors. And my mentors were among the first “scientist-practitioners” – although the term wasn’t yet invented.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My mentors instilled the notion that a “good therapist” is one who (a) views each treatment plan or procedure as a hypothesis to be tested and, if not (quickly) confirmed, revised based on the new data and tested again until it “works”; and (b) collects data throughout treatment that reflect observable and meaningful change in the presenting problems from the perspective of the family as well as the therapist. Translated into the graduate student’s bottom line, we would be “good therapists” if our cases were successful – defined by the data points on the progress graphs. And It was our responsibility -- not the child or family’s -- to make this happen. These empirical behaviorist principles formed the foundation for the development of PCIT.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The next step in the formation of PCIT happened at Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU). I was clinical psychology intern in a very traditional (white coats) prestigious (scary) place. I was encouraged to explore the more traditional play therapy approaches to child treatment.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Without much earlier training in “how” this was done, I began a period of avid reading. Two authors whose work strongly influenced my thinking -- and my initial play therapy interactions with children -- were Virginia Axline and Bernard Guerney. Axline’s play therapy was dynamic and emphasized acceptance of the child through reflections of the child’s behavior and emotions during play. Therapy was a place where children could feel safe, where they could relax and experience being “okay.” Guerney described a similar play therapy based nondirective psychotherapy. And he extended these ideas to parent training groups in which he taught parents to conduct play therapy sessions with their child at home.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The ideas of these early play therapists, which originated in psychodynamic and client-centered thinking, made sense in play therapy. The children enjoyed the play and seemed to calm down, “self-correct,” and try to please me, but I had several concerns. Their parents were not reporting similar experiences at home. Nor were they reporting changes in their children’s behaviors. (The graphs would not look good…). The therapy hour couldn’t overcome the many other hours in each week filled with powerful negative interactions that kept the child’s negative behaviors in place. At the same time, the children in treatment seemed to bond to me in the way they needed instead to bond to their parents.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Watching the anger – the absence of warmth and joy in the parent-child interactions -- was striking and very sad. Many of the children had been abused in the past, but even when not physically abusive, the parents’ management of their child’s misbehavior was emotionally hurtful as well as ineffective. The children and parents had become trapped in the “coercive cycle” later described by Gerald Patterson. Even if these parents learned to conduct the play therapy with their child, it would be difficult to sustain such positive interactions in the context of the potent downward spiral of negative disciplinary interactions.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While grappling with these issues, I discovered the work of Diana Baumrind. She studies how different parenting styles (authoritarian, permissive, and authoritative) affect children. Her research showed that authoritative parenting leads to the healthiest outcomes for children. The authoritative parenting style combines nurturant and responsive interactions with clear communication and firm limit-setting. This set of parenting behaviors bridged the gap between the behavioral and the more traditional approaches to child therapy -- and added further to the foundation of PCIT.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The work of a fourth psychologist, Constance Hanf at OHSU Crippled Children’s Division, contributed the structure to PCIT. Hanf developed a program for mothers and their developmentally disabled children in which she trained mothers to improve child compliance. Her program had two stages: In Stage 1, called Child’s Game, she trained mothers to play with their child using differential social attention – to pay attention to the child’s cooperative behavior and ignore the child’s uncooperative behavior. In Stage 2, called Mother’s Game, she trained the mothers in “controlling behavior” -- to give direct commands, praise the child for obeying, and use time-out for disobeying. She also used a bug-in-the-ear to coach the mothers in these two games!

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Hanf’s program provided a structure that would work for teaching parents play therapy skills – and would allow children to experience play therapy more than one hour a week. This was a way to train parents in the nurturance half of authoritative parenting, a way to increase parent responsiveness and strengthen the parent-child attachment.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This overarching structure would also work for teaching child management skills – and the firm limit-setting that is the other half of authoritative parenting. It provided a way to help parents not only set limits but also follow-through – the part that makes limits firm. Therapists could coach and support the parents through the chaos of this change, in guided practice until parents gained confidence in limit-setting on their own.

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During my next two years of postdoctoral training at OHSU, PCIT took shape. Most of the families referred to our clinic were single-parent mothers with disruptive children living in difficult, stressful circumstances. Thus, PCIT was developed within the context of “real life” clinical experiences, guided by clinical and developmental theory and literature on parenting and behavior change. It was formalized into “PCIT” in 1974 in the process of preparing an application for funding to ADAMHA (Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration) to conduct a pilot study of PCIT effectiveness. And it was during this time that my graduate school training played its largest role in the development of PCIT. In Part 2, I describe the assessment base of PCIT and the development of the ECBI, the DPICS, and the TAI.

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 200%;">LOCAL PCIT RESOURCES

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">CLACKAMAS COUNTY <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clackamas County Community Health Division <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2051 Kaen Road <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oregon City <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: Wendy Robinson <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: 503‐722‐6502

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">COOS COUNTY <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Coos County Mental Health <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1975 McPherson Ave #2 <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">North Bend <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: David Geels <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (541) 756‐2020

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">JACKSON COUNTY <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jackson County Mental Health <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1005 East Main <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Medford <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: Maureen Graham <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (541) 774‐7923

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Southern Oregon Child Study and Treatment Center <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1836 Fremont St <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ashland <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: Tom Gunderson <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (541) 482‐5792

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">JOSEPHINE COUNTY <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Family Friends Outpatient Program <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">322 NW F St <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grants Pass <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: George Longden, LCSW <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (541) 476‐4248

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Options for Southern Oregon <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1215 SW G St <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grants Pass <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: Jeff Krolick <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (541) 476‐2373

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">LINN COUNTY <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Linn County Mental Health Services <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">PO Box 100 <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Albany <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: Sandy Minta, Psy.D. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (541) 924‐6916

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">MARION COUNTY <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Easter Seals Oregon Childrenʹs Therapy Center <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">290 Moyer Ln NW <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Salem <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: Neda L. Grant, LPC <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (503) 370‐8990

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Marion County Behavioral Health <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3180 Center Street <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Salem <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: Gloria Thetford, RN <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (503) 361‐2675

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">MULTNOMAH COUNTY <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kerr Youth & Family Services <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">722 NE 162nd Ave <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Portland <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: Stephen Brock <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (503) 408‐5066

<span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Morrison Child and Family Services <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3205 SE 13th <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Portland <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: Linda Magnuson <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (503) 736‐6735

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">TILLAMOOK COUNTY <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tillamook Family Counseling Center906 Main Ave <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tillamook <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: Frank Hanna‐Williams, LCSW <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (503) 842‐8201

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">YAMHILL COUNTY <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yamhill County Health and Human Services Department <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">625 N Evans St <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">McMinnville <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Program Contact: Chris D. Johnson, ACSW <span style="color: #404040; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phone: (503) 434‐7523



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__<span style="color: #9bbb59; font-family: 'Elephant','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Asset Building Savings Program __

What would you do if a bank offered you 300% interest on your money? Take them up on it! Dream$avers is an Individual Development Account or IDA program that offers just that for youth and adults. We can help you reach your dream by matching every dollar you save, up to $2,000, with another $3 dollars to help you purchase an approved asset. Imagine how fast even a small monthly deposit will add up when your money is quadrupled! Dream$avers will also provide you with training, goal setting and support to help you achieve your savings goal.

__<span style="color: #9bbb59; font-family: 'Elephant','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Eligibility Requirements __

You may be eligible if you are:
 * 12 and older
 * An Oregon resident
 * A member of a household that meets the income and net worth limits. Must be interested in saving for one of the five approved savings goals. Willing and able to save for a minimum of 6 months to 36 months. (see below for more information)
 * Living within our 12-county service area. (see below for more information)

__<span style="color: #9bbb59; font-family: 'Elephant','serif'; font-size: 24px;">DreamSavers Program Funding __

The Individual Development Account (IDA) Initiative is supported by funding from the Oregon IDA Tax Credit. The Oregon IDA Tax Credit allows you to support participants like ours and get back a 75% credit on your State tax return. For more information goto http://ida.neighborhoodpartnerships.org or go to @http://ida.tnpf.org/ for more information about the IDA program in your part of the state.

__<span style="color: #9bbb59; font-family: 'Elephant','serif'; font-size: 24px;">Youth 3A’s Savings Program __

Youth as young as 10 can get in on the fun too! The Youth 3A’s program offers the opportunity for youth ages 10 to 17 to save for anything athletic, academic, artistic or entrepreneurial.

__<span style="color: #9bbb59; font-family: 'Elephant','serif'; font-size: 24px;">DreamSavers Income Qualifications __

Income is determined only at the time of application and is based on the total household income of all members of the household. Adjusted gross income is compared to two months of recent paycheck stubs to determine what the current income is for all wage earners in the household. Any other sources of income are added as well to create the total household income.

All income is counted for all members, except for the following: Foster care income, wages earned by minors in the household, income earned by a non permanent household member (i.e. a roommate or someone who is staying temporarily), and a household living under the same roof that can be verified by a separate tax return

Income qualifications for DreamSavers Program by household size and County:


 * ** All Dream$avers Counties as of 2012 ** ||
 * 1 person family || 2 person family || 3 person family || 4 person family || 5 person family || 6 person family || 7 person family || 8 person family ||
 * ** $35,780 ** || ** $40,900 ** || ** $46,000 ** || ** $51,120 ** || ** $55,210 ** || ** $61,940 ** || ** $69,860 ** || ** $77,780 ** ||
 * except
 * Deschutes County as of 2012 ** ||
 * ** $37,200 ** || ** $42,500 ** || ** $47,800 ** || ** $53,100 ** || ** $57,350 ** || ** $61,940 ** || ** $69,860 ** || ** $77,780 ** ||

Net worth is also a factor when determining eligibility for the household. Excluding the value of your home if you own it and your most expensive vehicle, your total net worth cannot exceed $20,000. We ask that when reporting these items on your application that you look up your vehicle values on Kelly Blue Book www.kbb.com or a comparable website and report any debts owed based on your most recent statement from your lending institution.

Similarly we ask that you use your tax assessed value and most recent mortgage statement to report on your home value and debt owed, unless a recent appraisal has been done or another assessment to provide you a different analysis. For all other categories, please report as accurately as possible, using recent statement balances when available. Verification may be asked for if needed.

__<span style="color: #9bbb59; font-family: 'Elephant','serif'; font-size: 24px;">DreamSavers Approved Savings Goals __

There are five approved ways to save under the DreamSavers program. They are:


 * 1. First Time Homeownership **

Savers under this category must be considered first-time homebuyers and can use the funds for any of the following purposes:
 * Down payment
 * Closing costs
 * Earnest money
 * Required repairs by a lender
 * Appraisals
 * Inspections


 * 2. Post Secondary Education or Job Training **

Savers under this category must plan to maintain residency in Oregon (or for minors who enroll, their household must maintain residency) both while they save and spend their funds. Funds can only be used for the following uses:
 * Tuition
 * Fees
 * Books
 * Equipment related to being a student (i.e. a computer, graphing calculator, materials required under a syllabus, etc.)


 * 3. Small Business Start Up or Expansion **

Savers under this category must have a viable business idea that is approved by the IDA program prior to enrollment. Funds can be used for:
 * Materials
 * Supplies
 * Equipment
 * Inventory
 * Advertising
 * Initial start up expenses


 * 4. Repairs or Modifications to make a primary dwelling habitable, accessible or visitable **

Savers do not need to have homes that qualify as real property, which means that both singlewide and doublewide manufactured homes and trailer homes in parks qualify under this program. Funds can be used for the following:
 * Habitability includes anything that improves the health and safety or improved longevity of the life of the home. This can be roof replacement, heating system upgrades, foundation repair, plumbing or electrical issues or weatherization. Please note: those interested in weatherization must demonstrate that they have applied for other weatherization programs in their area and are either ineligible or are unable to access those programs in the same amount of time.
 * Accessibility includes any modification to the inside of the home that would accommodate making the home more accessible. Examples of this include lowered counters and cabinets, wheel-in showers and grab bar modifications or widened door frames.
 * Visitability includes any improvement to the entryway of the home that allows any member of the household to gain safe entry into the home. Examples of this can be replacement of rotting stairs if the stairs are the only way in and out of the home, or to add a ramp to the home to be able to gain entry. Rear entry replacement or deck replacement does not count.


 * 5. Equipment, technology or assistive technology required to become competitive in obtaining or maintaining employment **

Savers under this plan do not need to be considered to have a disability, however those who do consider themselves to have a disability and wish to become employable can use these funds to help in achieving that goal. As part of an employment plan, funds can be used for the following:
 * Assistive listening devices
 * Vehicle modifications
 * Mobility devices
 * Specialized computers
 * Other equipment specified by an employer or job posting where hiring would be dependent on having this equipment

__<span style="color: #9bbb59; font-family: 'Elephant','serif'; font-size: 24px;">DreamSavers Service Area __

DreamSavers is available through a network of partner agencies throughout southern, southwestern, central and eastern Oregon. Not every partner agency provides every savings goal but NeighborWorks Umpqua will strive to meet your needs, regardless of what you want to save for, if you live in Deschutes, Douglas, Coos, Crook, Curry, Harney, Jackson, Jefferson, Josephine, Klamath, Lake or Malheur counties.

Below is a list of the partner agencies based on county. All of the eligibility criteria are the same, but you should contact the agency in your region to request an application.


 * Deschutes, Crook and Jefferson Counties **

NeighborImpact — Offering Homeownership, Education, Small Business & Home Repair IDA’s

Primary Contact Person: Yolanda Vanderpool Phone: 541- 318-7506 website: www.neighborimpact.org


 * Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and Lake Counties **

Southern Oregon Goodwill — Offering Small Business, Education, Home Repair & Assistive Technology IDA’s

Primary Contact Person: Pamela Redding Phone: 541-884-9642 website: www.sogoodwill.org


 * Douglas, Jackson, and Josephine Counties **

College Dreams — Offering Education IDA’s for youth

Primary Contact Person: Katie Eaton Phone: 541-476-8146 website: www.collegedreams.org


 * Douglas County **

Family Resource Center — Offering Education IDA’s for youth

Primary Contact Person: Delaine Humphreys Phone: 541-271-9700


 * Harney County **

Please contact our office if you are interested in applying from Harney County. Phone: 541-673-4909


 * Jackson and Josephine Counties **

Access Inc. — Offering Homeownership, Education and Small Business IDA’s

Primary Contact Person: Elisha Boyle Phone: 541-774-4329 website: www.accesshelps.org


 * Jackson County **

Groundworks CDC — Offering Homeownership and Education IDA’s

Primary Contact Person: Roxana Zepeda Phone: 541-734-2355 website: www.roguevalleycdc.org


 * Klamath and Lake Counties **

South Central Economic Development District (SCOEDD) — Offering Education, Small Business and Home Repair IDA’s

Primary Contact Person: Pamela Ruddock Phone: 541-884-5593 website: www.scoedd.org


 * Klamath County **

Klamath Lake Community Action Services — Offering Education and Homeownership IDA’s

Primary Contact Person: Michelle Smith Phone: 541-882-3500 *8 x11 website: www.klcas.org


 * Malheur County **

Malheur Council on Aging & Community Services — Offering Education and Equipment or Technology to Obtain Employment IDA’s

Primary Contact Person: Loni Debban Phone: 541-889-7651 website: www.mcoainfo.org