The Orientation and Career Center provides counseling and training for persons with recent or prospective loss of sight. It primarily serves persons who became blind during adulthood, is located in Portland, and provides some client housing accommodations. Agency staff teach clients independent living skills, the use of Braille, and vocational skills. Industries for the Blind is a program operated in conjunction with the Multnomah County Mental Health Department. The program includes a work activity center and a vocational program specializing in serving clients who are both developmentally disabled and blind.
Clients work in sheltered employment or community-based supported employment programs.
Administrative Services includes the Director's staff, as well as accounting, budgeting and human resource personnel. Governor's Recommended 1999-01 Legislatively. The study, presented to the Emergency Board at its June 1998 and September 1998 meetings, concluded that any allocation method would be based on arbitrary criteria-that no allocation method could be objective. Other Funds revenue comes from Oregon Industries for the Blind sales, cooperative agreements with school districts and interagency agreements. Since 1991, General Fund has comprised between ten and twelve percent of the agency's total budget.