Category: Community
Acceso lingüístico en OYA
La comunicación multilingüe es importante para la misión general de la Correccional Juvenil de Oregon (Oregon Youth Authority (OYA, por sus siglas en inglés)) para que los jóvenes sean responsables y tengan oportunidades para la comunicación de información, procesos y prácticas de reformación. La OYA valora y apoya la diversidad, y busca ofrecer los servicios ...
Language Access at OYA
Multilingual communication is important to OYA’s overall mission of holding youth accountable and providing opportunities for communicating reformative information, processes, and practices. OYA values and supports diversity and seeks to provide language-specific and culturally appropriate services for youth and their families. As a result, we have a multifaceted approach to language access. OYA’s Office of ...
OYA Celebrates Black History Month
The 2025 Black History Month theme, African Americans and Labor, focuses on the different and profound ways that Black peoples’ labor benefits our society. This includes labor of all kinds, compensated and uncompensated, from leadership in numerous industries to community building and mutual aid, to the contribution to and expansion of a unique cultural movement ...
DEI in Action: Training Spotlight with Washington and Tillamook Field Offices
DEI has been an OYA Agency Key Initiative since 2019. Diversity, equity, and inclusion are necessary elements to create safer, more just, and thoughtful systems of care, communities, and employment for everyone. What does our DEI team do? They provide comprehensive support for the agency and collaborate closely with staff across the state. The team ...
OYA Partners with Looking Glass to Provide Specialized Mental Health Residential Treatment
OYA is excited to partner with Looking Glass Community Services to launch our first-ever psychiatric residential treatment and subacute mental health residential program. This initiative addresses the growing need for targeted support for youth with severe mental and behavioral health challenges. By diverting youth from correctional settings and into specialized care, we’re giving them an ...