Disabled Sports USA
Life-changing outdoor experiences for individuals of all abilities.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Oregon Adaptive Sports is working to empower individuals to live a healthy and thriving life. Burdened with numerous barriers from astronomical healthcare costs, to lack of universal design and accessibility, seemingly easy to reach outdoor spaces like parks, trails, and lakes are often beyond the grasp of many individuals with disabilities. By providing state of the art adaptive sports equipment, a thorough training program for staff and volunteers, accessible transportation and financial scholarships, OAS removes these barriers and makes the inaccessible accessible.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
OAS Year Round Programs
OAS offers 10 sports and activities that serve individuals of all ages and abilities. These include winter, snow based sports, and several summer outdoor sports such as cycling, mountain biking and kayaking.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of volunteers
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People with disabilities
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Volunteers are the heart and soul of OAS. Their commitment to OAS expands the reach and impact of our mission.
Hours of volunteer service
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People with disabilities
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
OAS is supported by thousands of hours of volunteers support each year. Steady increases in hours shows effective program growth.
Number of clients served
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
People with disabilities
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
OAS strives to reach more individuals each year through programs.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
OAS is working to remove the common and significant barriers for individuals with disabilities to gain equal access to the outdoors.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
OAS maintains five key pillars to eliminate the major barriers for individuals to access the outdoors, these include:
Recruiting, training, and retaining high quality staff and volunteers.
Obtaining and maintaining state of the art adaptive sports equipment.
Providing accessible transportation to programs.
Offsetting any financial barriers through scholarships.
Developing and sustaining key partnerships.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
OAS continues to improves its capabilities to achieve our organizational goals by steady and smart planning and growth. Recent years OAS has invested significant resources in training and equipment ensuring our participants are served in extremely high quality programs. OAS, as a leader among adaptive sports programs in the Pacific Northwest, continues to expand outreach and partnerships regionally to ensure access continues to grow for individuals with disabilities region wide.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
OAS has seen tremendous progress in its 22 years of existence. In the words of one OAS participant "many people may not think that it is a great time and place to be paralyzed, but I think it's true." OAS continues to see increases of community recognition and investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion which is a clear indicator of progress. OAS has more than doubled it's participation numbers in the past five years and plans to continue to expand state wide outreach in the next 3-5 years.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Disabled Sports USA
Board of directorsas of 02/22/2022
Mr. Neal Hueske
Schwabe, Williamson, & Wyatt (Retired)
Organizational demographics
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