In this section, you'll learn and receive the information you will need in your first days with FACT Oregon.

You will receive and/or complete your:

• W4

• Direct Deposit information

• I9

• Metro/PFA Tax Forms 

• Benefit information (if applicable)

• Employee Assistance Program [EAP] information

• Please complete Section 1 of the I9, including signing and dating the form. 

• Please print the form and give it to your supervisor.

• Please provide the required documents to your supervisor.

I9 Form

I9 Instructions

Please confirm when that is complete by adding a comment to this post that it is done.

• Metro Supportive Housing Services Tax (SHS)

• Multnomah County Preschool for All Tax (PFA)  

Please fill this out and send it to Karen McKenney.

• Getting Set Up

  • paperwork

  • orientation to onboarding

  • technology set up

Day 2 - Thursday: Getting Set Up

• Continue Getting Set Up

  • Work in Padlet

    • New Hire Paperwork

    • About FACT Oregon

    • Policies and Procedures

• Work closely with Molly and the support team to understand the specifics of support.

• Begin providing support based on plan created with the support supervisor

Professional Development and Onboarding

• Take IDEA Quizzes to determine areas of content expertise and areas of professional development opportunities.

• Attend all meetings as assigned.

Staff

• Get to know staff members.

• Begin taking on more significant parts of support independently.

• Regular check-ins with the support supervisor and team lead.

Performance Feedback

• First formal feedback session with your manager to discuss performance and set goals.

Professional Development Plan

• Identify areas for growth and potential training opportunities.

• Discuss career trajectory and opportunities within the company.

• Regularly scheduled workshops and opportunities to learn that support our work.

• Opportunities for external training and workshops.

Team Collaboration

• Engage in collaborative projects that includes summer planning.

• Regular team-building activities.

Your choice to work at FACT Oregon is important to us and we appreciate you!  

Through this onboarding course you will receive policies, guidelines, and expectations for working at FACT Oregon as well as begin your training to work in Program and Support roles. 

Training will focus on content areas of the core competencies for Program and Support, and there will be articles to read, videos to watch, as well as activities to solidify your training.  

Feel free to ask questions at any time!

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Values: What drives our work

• Disability is natural

• The importance of high expectations

• Self-determination must be assured

• Whole lives happen when families experiencing disability engage with their communities

• Family involvement is critical throughout the life of a family member with a disability

• Equitable access for all and respect for cultural differences

Principle Statement

FACT Oregon empowers families and transforms how communities perceive disability. Our peer support, trainings, and resources equip and empower families, transform how they see disability, and help them have high expectations and dream big dreams for their children. We draw on the lived experience of our team, many themselves parents of youth experiencing disability, and call out the vital role of parent/caregiver as a child’s number one fan and advocate.  

FACT Oregon holds that disability is a natural part of the human condition and that people experiencing it have the right and ability to create fulfilling, whole, self-determined lives. We appreciate that parents/caregivers are subject matter experts on their children and are best equipped to help set a north star and a positive trajectory for their lives when they are supported to do so.

We educate families on how to advocate, navigate systems, and build communities in which their children thrive. We believe in inclusion and that we are all part of a larger, diverse community in which everyone has strengths and something to contribute. We strive to create supports that are accessible to all families, with the idea that no child or family should feel alone. We believe that systems should empower families rather than frustrate or impede, and we work towards that goal.

We believe ableism must be addressed and dismantled and that there is no such thing as “too disabled” for self-determination. We believe that, with imagination and creativity, families can discover the right supports to increase their children’s independence and make a whole life possible. Families we support will realize that full, self-determined, independent lives, with real relationships in communities is possible.

Read: FACT Oregon’s Annual Impact Report

Time to complete: 30 minutes 

In the comments section of this post, write three (3) news things that you learned and two (2) questions that you have.

• Personnel Policy

• Fiscal Policy

• Retention Policy

• Whistleblower Policy

• Youth Protection Policy

When you are done, you will sign an acknowledgment that you have read and understand the policies.

• Your Work Schedule

• Vacation/Sick Leave Requests

• Time Record Policies

• Remote/Hybrid Work

Employee Assistance Program

• Acknowledgment of FACT Oregon Policies

• Acknowledgement of FACT Oregon Hybrid/Location - Flexible Employment

 The technical and systems training course will take you through the systems we use at FACT Oregon for the Support and Program roles. 

You'll work on this training while also working in the Content Training Courses.

Once you get it installed, here is a video that is an overview of Teamflect.

The Core Competencies include:

• Disability Concepts

• Disability, Educational, Social and Community Systems and Services, including:

• Diversity Equity and Inclusion

• Effective Communication

• Foundational educational, disability and related laws and legislation

• Operational Skills

• Reliability

• Support

• Training and Outreach

• Continue to work with Molly

• Begin shadowing calls and/or taking some calls

Professional Development and Onboarding

• Take IDEA Quizzes to determine areas of content expertise and areas of professional development opportunities.

  • Directions: Please use these as an opportunity for you to check on areas where you feel comfortable and where you need more information for yourself.  Here is what I would like you to do with each one. 

    1. Read through the questions with this in mind.  I am not asking you to write anything down to share.  This is just internal for you.

       1. What do I already know well enough that I could teach it to someone else?

       2. What have I heard before or know about but may need more information?

       3. What is totally new information to me, and I need to do some more learning?  

    2. Go through and answer the questions.  Try to answer them first without looking anything up.

    3. Use your resources.  Go back through and use the following resources to find answers that are new or that you are unsure of.  Here are the allowable resources because they have been vetted:

       1. Parent Center Hub

       2. Our website 

       3. ODE

       4. Wrightslaw

       5. Understood

    4. Please keep your docs in the shared folder that I created for you.  I know that this will take time and you have other things to do.

• Attend all meetings as assigned.

Staff

• Get to know staff members.