Founded in 1989, Community Vision is the largest nonprofit organization providing individualized housing, supported living, employment and homeownership services to people with disabilities and their families in Oregon. Community Vision has proven that assisting one person at a time to live in their own home provides the stability they need to work, live and thrive in the communities of their choice.
- Over 125 dedicated direct-care staff members are in the community every day assisting the people that we serve in their homes, at their places of employment and in the community to live safe and tremendously improved lives.
- Community Vision helps people live productively with dignity.We envision a world in which every individual is free to live, work, and thrive in communities they choose, and a society that values every member as a whole person rather than a sum of diagnoses and labels.
- Staff work with participants to help them become engaged and productive in their own communities, access meaningful and equitable employment and financial security, and enjoy the opportunity to make basic choices about their lives.
- Community Vision supports 26 jobs in and around Portland, providing meaningful employment while addressing local businesses’ interests and needs. Through our Asset Building Program, participants can access matched savings programs (called Individual Development Accounts) that allow them to save for home ownership or adaptation, small businesses, or continuing education.
- Daily supported living fosters participants’ autonomy- for instance, nearly all CVI participants live independently- but actively works with family, friends, and social networks to connect supported individuals with the broader community.
- Community Vision has demonstrated for more than a decade that Oregonians with disabilities can live productively, with dignity, and greater self-determination at vastly reduced cost to taxpayers.