Welcome to our June 2025 resource hub! Whether you’re a self-advocate, caregiver, family member, or community partner, this space is dedicated to supporting and celebrating you.
🌟 Empowered Services’ BYOC Program
Imagine receiving care from someone who already knows your smile, your story, and your rhythm — someone who sees you, not just your needs. At Empowered Services, we believe the best care often comes from those who already hold a place in your life and heart.
That’s why we created the BYOC (Bring Your Own Caregiver) program — a unique opportunity to bring a trusted family member, friend, neighbor, or community connection onto your care team as a paid Direct Support Provider (DSP)
Benefits include:
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Competitive pay
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Full benefits (health/vision/dental, PTO, and 401k matching) for caregivers working 30+ hours/week
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A simple, flexible application process
Ready to bring someone you trust onto your team?
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Have them apply here: BYOC Application
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Know someone seeking care for themselves or a loved one? Share our intake form. Customer Contact Form
🎨 June Events: Creativity & Connection
At Empowered Services, we believe in creating moments that bring joy, foster creativity, and build lasting connections. This summer, we invite you to join us for exciting events designed to celebrate fun, collaboration, and creativity with our wonderful DSPs and customers.
Event Highlights:
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June 20—DSP and Customer Bonding Time: Team up with your customer to create something magical and unique together.
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July 12—Cowboy Hats: Get your hands on a fun, creative project and decorate your very own cowboy hat to take home!
These events are all about celebrating YOU! Don’t miss out on the chance to connect, create, and have fun. Mark your calendars and join us!
🎳 Weekly Bowling Events
Looking for a fun way to connect with others while staying active? Join us at Empowered Services for weekly bowling events! Whether you’re an experienced bowler or just looking for some friendly competition, these events are a great opportunity to bond, have fun, and make lasting memories with your community.
Bowling Locations & Times:
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Wilsonville Bullwinkles – Wednesdays, 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. ($5)
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Together, we’re building a more inclusive, connected, and empowered future for all Oregonians with disabilities. See you at the events — and beyond!
Hello Empowered Services Faculty and Friends,
Can you believe Summer is right around the corner?! We are harnessing some of that energy from the sun to try and bring our I/DD community closer together. We’d like to personally invite you and the individuals you support to a couple of our upcoming events:
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July 4th we will be hosting our first annual Independence Day BBQ
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July 13th and August 10th The Opportunity Club is sponsoring inclusive speed dating nights.
All events are free of charge, and we are happy to answer any questions that come up between now and then. Guests are encouraged to RSVP via the QR codes visible on the flyers we have uploaded to this email below.
After taking a look at your website, I saw that you are doing some outstanding work! One-on-one support is super valuable, and we love seeing great providers like you out there serving our community. I didn’t see DSA listed as one of the services you currently offer, we just started a DSA program called, “Gather & Thrive” which we are super excited about. If you have any folks who are interested in small group services we’d love to connect with them! Please feel free to contact Josh, our DSA Director at 971-430-8732 or josh@theopportunityclubinc.com if you’d like to know more about this program.
Additionally, we have an emailing list! If you would like to receive information about upcoming events, updates, and more please click the link below or use the QR code to subscribe! We have some exciting developments happening at TOC and we’d love for you to be in the loop. If you subscribe to our mailing list you also receive a PDF that contains links to free and low cost resources in the Portland Area:
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Thank you for taking the time to read this message, we appreciate you and the work you do.
-Josh & Piper
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(971) 495-8706
Have you registered for Camp?
Bustin’ Barriers is offering 4 camps this summer (two in July and two in August) with two sessions each day, based on age. Although some camps are full, other camps have available slots and fun awaits.
Here are the details:
•   Based upon age, we’re offering separate sessions for younger kids (K-5) and older campers (middle school, high school and transition program students)
o   The morning sessions run from 9 AM to Noon (for K-5 campers)
o   The afternoon sessions run from 1 PM to 4 PM (middle school, high school and transition age campers)
•   Two camp locations:
o   SW Portland – Jackson Middle School (10625 SW 35th Ave. Portland 97219)
o   SE Portland – Holy Family School (7425 SE Cesar Chavez Blvd. Portland 97202)
•   Camp Dates:
o   July 14th – 18th (Jackson Middle School)
o   July 21st – 25th (Jackson Middle School
o   Aug. 4th – 8th (Holy Family School)
o   Aug. 11th -15th (Holy Family School – both AM and PM sessions full)
•   Cost is $175 per camp. Scholarships are available based upon need. To make camp accessible to as many as possible, we can only provide a maximum of two scholarships per camper.
•   We always look forward to camp. Old friends gather, new friends are made and it’s an opportunity to have fun and make memories.
•    To register, click here
Parents and Guardians – please remember to fill out the Physical Clearance Form too. It provides contact information as well as helps us get to know your child. Thank you.
Questions/Concerns? Please contact Sarah Roberts, Operations Director at 503-502-0521
All kids deserve the opportunity to be active and have fun
Bustin’ Barriers / 503-869-7112
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