Direction Service

Information ServicesDirection Service acts as an information clearinghouse on a broad range of disability related topics, which include legal issues, resources, parenting, barrier-free design, disabling conditions, and controversial treatments. Direction Service is also a part of a community resource website called 211(http://www.211lane.org) . Visitors to 211(http://www.211lane.org) will find information on a broad array of organizations that can meet the needs of persons with disabilities and their families. Direction Service, in joining with other information and referral providers, is now part of a comprehensive system that includes listings on more that 2,000 agencies and support groups. Direction Service uses this information to respond to many requests for information each year. A summer program directory(pg40.cfm) is also produced and distributed annually.
 
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Direction Service Counseling Center
Direction Service Counseling Center provides the full range of mental health services to very young children, children and adolescents, families, adults, and elders. These services include: comprehensive assessment, treatment planning, individual and family therapy, skill building, group therapy and consultation. The Counseling Center provides service to clients experiencing mood and anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, and childhood impulse and behavioral disorders. Personnel are particularly adept at providing services to clients and families who experience developmental disabilities in combination with mental and emotional disorders.
 

 

 

Assessment and Evaluation Center                                               

The Assessment and Evaluation Center provides Psychological Evaluations, Assessment of Intellectual Functions, Personality Assessment, Assessment of Anxiety, including Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Assessment for Depression, Academic Assessments, including Learning Disability Assessments, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Attention-Deficit Disorder.  Referrals may include people who are difficult to diagnose, who appear to have more than one mental health diagnosis, who have been difficult to treat, who are looking for an independent evaluation related to special education or other school-related matters.  [email protected](mailto:[email protected])

 

Counseling Center Address576 Olive Street, Suite 307 Eugene, OR 97401 (541) 344-7303 FAX: 686-6283

Emergency Cell Phone: 913-1701

Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution In Special EducationFunded by the Office of Special Education Programs at the United States Department of Education, Direction Service serves as the lead agency for The Center for Appropriate Dispute Resolution In Special Education (CADRE). CADRE(http://www.directionservice.org/cadre) operates as the National Center on Dispute Resolution in Special Education and supports all fifty states, the U.S. territories and the Bureau of Indian Affairs in utilizing the full continuum of conflict resolution options. CADRE leverages the experience of individual and organizational leaders to provide efficient, effective and high quality technical assistance. These affiliations include a unique blend of parents and professionals, expertise in technical assistance and extensive knowledge of dispute resolution practices. CADRE builds its activities, products and services around the needs of state and local education and early intervention systems, families, educators, service providers, parent centers, and dispute resolution programs and practitioners. CADRE core partners include: Direction Service; Resourceful Internet Solutions (RIS); National Association of State Directors of Special Education (NASDSE); The National Dissemination Center (Formerly NICHCY); The Technical Assistance ALLIANCE for Parent Centers at PACER (Alliance); and Teaching Research at Western Oregon University. www.directionservice.org/cadre (http://www.directionservice.org/cadre )