Leaving a Legacy—REACH INC Klamath Falls, Oregon
Channel: Totally INSPIRED Media INC
Date: 2023-03-13

From the outside, REACH INC in Klamath Falls, Oregon, appears to be an wood mill, but inside it is a community, where disabled adults and those with barriers to employment, can get job training, care & rehabilitation, paid work, and find dignity, purpose and entertainment and support. Reach participants enjoy getting out into the community on our fleet of buses for fun excursions! 

In 1968 Zelda Langdale, who started REACH, pioneered & advocated for the care of people with developmental disabilities—locally, at time when the disabled were often marginalized, ignored, hidden and institutionalized. She started a program to care, train and integrate participants into the community with social supports and paid work. 

Today REACH partners with Klamath Works, to recycle old mattresses, shred documents, and to bale cardboard and metal. 

Have you explored REACH’s Upcycle Store in the parking lot of Fred Meyers in Klamath Falls? It is a great place to find used books to purchase and read! 

The REACH Upcycle Store was opened to provide retail sales training and work experience for our participants and to sell upcycled products including ReachWood furniture, participant art, used books and other seasonal décor. Looking for an epic gift?  There are corn hole games, patriotic wooden American flags and more!

In the mill, REACH creates custom pallets for companies across Oregon from scrap lumber plywood mills reject. Any broken pallets, scrap wood, or sawdust created is carefully recycled. The public can purchase firewood bundles or pallets for their projects directly from REACH INC at 2350 Maywood Dr, Klamath Falls, OR 97603.

REACH Inc, welcomes donations of sensory toys, musical instruments, arts and craft supplies, working smart TV’s, Puzzles, Books, new AA and AAA batteries, board games, tissue boxes, Balsa wood projects, birdhouses that can be painted by participants, blank artist canvases, paint brushes, and massage chairs in working order. Any landscaping tools, mowers, weed eaters, blowers, etc. REACH always needs low mileage semi-tractors, 15 passenger vans, landscaping trailers, and monetary charitable donations for specific projects or for REACH's general operating fund, are appreciated.


Please consider naming REACH INC as beneficiary when updating your will, life insurance policy, or bank accounts, to leave a lasting legacy…