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About
the Marie Mills Center...
Marie Mills Center Inc. is a private non-profit agency
that has served the developmentally disabled in Tillamook since 1969.
Marie Mills Center is locally controlled and well recognized within
Tillamook County. Our agency employs 40 staff trained and experienced
in the needs of the developmentally disabled. Unlike many similar
programs in Oregon, the average tenure of our agency staff approaches 10
years. Marie Mills Center receives oversight from the Tillamook Family
Counseling Center and the State of Oregon
to assure the quality and safety of services provided.
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Seniors and Persons with Disabilities. Agency staff are CPR/First Aid
Certified and receive a vigorous screening prior to hire including
Criminal History Checks, Drug and Alcohol Screening, Motor Vehicle
Record Checks, Functional Capacities Testing and Background Checks.
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Marie Mills Center employees 97 individuals including both
staff and workers with developmental disabilities. We also serve a
total of 75 individuals with disabilities (unduplicated) within our program. Plus Marie Mills Center travels approximately 85,000
miles annually, transporting individuals with disabilities so their
needs can be met.
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History...
Marie Mills Center was started in 1969 in a facility at
the Port of Tillamook Bay by parents of developmentally disabled
individuals and others who wanted to create meaningful opportunities
for developmentally disabled adults in Tillamook County.
Through this "grass roots" effort, Marie
Mills Center was among the first of its kind in Oregon. Marie Mills
Center began by providing only vocational services, but by 1978 the
Center began to also provide residential services to individuals with
developmental disabilities.
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Marie Mills Center currently serves 63 individuals
within its vocational program in which the Center provides support and
training to individuals to assist them vocationally and with their
jobs. In the "old days" of vocational services,
developmentally disabled individuals were sent to a centralized and
isolated location, a sheltered workshop.
Marie Mills Center is proud that of the 63 individuals
it currently serves in its vocational program, 40 have vocational
opportunities that are now integrated within our community at local
businesses instead of a sheltered workshop.
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Marie Mills Center's residential program currently
serves 31 individuals with developmental disabilities. 24 hour
supervised residential services occur through a 10 bed group home (the
Madrona House) and a 5 bed group home (the Nestucca House). In
addition to 24-hour supervised residential services, Marie Mills
Center offers a Semi-Independent Living Program serving 9 individuals
who are able to successfully live on their own with only a minimal
amount of support and a supported living program serving 7
individuals.
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