Welcome to Disability Compass!
Disability Compass provides information on services, products, and special health care resources for people with disabilities, their families and their supporters.

Compass Points
Disability Compass is pleased to announce the publication of Compass Points, our new quarterly newsletter. This issue includes a report from the Disability Compass staff, information on new site features, and articles spotlighting the Disability Compass Project Director, Barbara Dobroth, and our Compass partner, Community Vision. Upcoming issues will keep you up to date on our activities in the community, new site developments, and more. Click here to download your copy of Compass Points.

Region 1 DD Training Co-Op Classes Posted on Disability Compass
The Region 1 DD Training Co-Op provides affordable training for persons providing care and support to individuals with disabilities. The Co-Op is composed of county staff and service providers from a five county area: Multnomah, Clackamas, Washington, Clatsop, and Columbia. Co-Op members host classes and have the responsibility for publicizing classes based on the Co-Op's Annual Plan. Disability Compass supports the Region 1 DD Training Co-Op by providing access to the training schedule and registration information, the Annual Plan, Co-Op membership information, and the Co-Op's Host Kit. Links to these options are also on the left.

Have You Tried Our New Guided Search Features?
The Personal Services Providers search will help you locate respite providers, community inclusion support, physical therapists and other service providers. The new Inclusive Child Care Resources search helps professional child care providers find organizations that offer training and mentoring programs, adaptive equipment and toys, and financial assistance for adapting their facilities to meet the needs of children with disabilities. Parents will find organizations that can help them locate inclusive child care programs, support groups, parent education classes, printed materials, and website resources. Links to these guided search features are on the left.

Medicaid and Medicare Information
Do you have questions about Medicaid or Medicare? TheDesk.info, an online Medicaid reference, provides up-to-date information on Medicaid and Medicare eligibility requirements and programs for people with cognitive disabilities. For information on programs and services in Oregon, click here. For information on other states, go to www.thedesk.info and select a state.

Legislative Activities
The Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities, a Compass partner, offers links from its home page, www.ocdd.org, which will help you locate your state and local officials, track important local legislation, survey your elected officials, and register to vote. Also, the Oregon Developmental Disability Coalition offers links from its home page, www.oregonddcoalition.org, which will help you locate your state legislative members, sign up for the Oregon Network, track important state legislation, locate fact sheets on state issues and take action on those issues. If you have not visited these sites, we encourage you to do so soon.

Disability Compass is a project of Disability Navigators, Inc. and is funded in part by a grant from the Meyer Memorial Trust.

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Compass does not endorse, rate, recommend, or evaluate resources, programs, providers, products or services and therefore, Compass does not warrant nor guarantee the quality of the resources listed. Compass believes that consumers are in the best position to evaluate and choose resources appropriate to their needs.

Compass makes every effort to verify all information prior to posting, but cannot guarantee that all information is accurate at all times, and consumers should confirm resource information prior to depending upon it.